Your links for today

For those unfamiliar with the origins of the Panthers rat trick, here's an explanation on the origins [On Frozen Pond]

Ilya Kovalchuk plans on "taking charge" tonight [NJ.com]

Peter DeBoer knows that Anton Volchenkov can play better. The question is why is he playing so badly? [Fire and Ice]

Martin Brodeur never doubted that he'd be starting tonight [Fire and Ice]

The Miami news is unfamiliar with the Florida Panthers' logo, and instead uses a college's logo [Puck Drunk Love]

More links after the jump

NHL Playoffs

All I have to say about the Pens-Flyers game... ouch [Broad Street Hockey]

Ilya Bryzgalov was pulled. Why you heff to be bad Ilya, it's only playoff game [PHT]

Zac Rinaldo decided to stir the pot. And help the Pens get 10 goals [Backhand Shelf]

The Sens score another OT victory against our hated rivals [Silver Seven]

Oh look, a Ranger performing a questionable act. Water must be still wet I presume [Backhand Shelf]

Dejected Henrik Lundqvist. Dying of Laughter [SBNation]

The Canucks stopped the Kings from sweeping them [Nucks Misconduct][Pass it to Bulis]

Dustin Brown was bleeding because of an elbow from... Henrik Sedin. Yes, that happened [SBNation]

The Rest

Ryan Kesler's tumbleweed dive has spawned .gifs of tumbling Kesler in all sorts of situations [Pass it to Bulis]

A compilation of Raffi Torres' offenses, just because Raffi Torres received an indefinite suspension from the NHL [Backhand Shelf]

A defense of Torres, or more accurately, an explanation of how the rules about hits to the head aren't so black and white [mc79hockey]

How trying to remove all the bad hits from the NHL will take significantly longer than expected [Backhand Shelf]

The consensus top 100 in the NHL draft [Copper and Blue]