No one can ever dare accuse Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau of being a shrinking violet. Loud, opinionated, and brash, he has a polarizing personality that is either love him or hate him (disclaimer: I tend to fall into the latter camp). He's found recent employment, as fired and off-season coaches do, on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada as a guest commentator. Boudreau spoke with CBC.ca regarding the recent spate of violence in the playoffs, and as usual, it's uninformed claptrap. Here're some highlights:

CBCSports.ca: The talk of the playoffs so far has been the fighting and hits the head and how it’s gotten out of the control. What’s your assessment to this point?

Boudreau:I don’t think it’s out of control, I think it’s what want people want. Hockey players and the sport itself is a really competitive sport. We build from the minute we start training in the summer for one goal and that’s to win the Stanley Cup. And that’s what everybody bases everything on. ... It’s just when it comes to playoff time everybody is so ramped up. The media has ramped you up, the coaches have ramped you up, the organization has ramped you up to win the Cup. It gets highly competitive. Players go at it like they’ve never gone at it before. That’s the way it is.

Let's be honest. The Florida Panthers haven't exactly been a regular fixture in the NHL playoffs. As a result, the media isn't used to talking about them this late in the year. However, this doesn't give local news stations down in Florida an excuse as they are supposed to be reporting on the Panthers all season long. 

As found on Reddit, a Miami news station used FIU's (Florida International University) logo instead of the Panthers actual logo while reporting on the team's win over the Devils on Tuesday. 

There's been a large to-do recently about discipline in the NHL, from Shea Weber's fine to Matt Carkner and Carl Haglen's suspensions. There's no consistency in discipline, especially when so much of it is based off of whether someone is injured or not. There's no punishing the intent, rather, there's punishing of the outcome.

The glamour. The stars. The noise. It seems like Los Angeles would be the perfect setting to recapture a playoff series that had escaped him. After giving up three goals in Game 1 and four goals in Game 2, the best thing Roberto Luongo could do is put those games in the past and become reenergized for Game 3. But there was only one problem: Luongo's teammate and fellow goaltender Cory Schneider, was scheduled to be the starter. The opportunity to reset the series had vanished.

During the pressure filled match of Game 3, the emotionless goaltender sat on the left side of the Vancouver bench, hidden under a team issued cap. Helpless to what he saw on the ice, he sat in silence as each team had their chances to score. He watched emotions run wild and had a front row seat as Henrik Sedin could barely get over the boards after a monstrous by Dustin Brown. Visions of disbelief continued to rise as he saw Brown score on a juicy rebound in the 3rd period. Before he knew it, the final horn sounded. With only a few beads of sweat under his cap, he stood and walked into the darkness toward the locker room. His future? Uncertain. This series? Nearly over. His job? Lost.

Matt Carkner has been suspended one game for his actions in the second game of the Ottawa / New York series. That sound you might hear is thousands, if not millions, of NHL fans laughing and mocking at how once again the NHL discipline department has missed the mark. 

One game? Seriously? Did they actually mean one game per punch landed by Carkner while Brian Boyle was defenseless on the ice? That would have made a lot more sense. It has been reported that Carkner hit Boyle seven, yes seven, times in the head on a defenseless combatant. Shanahan's rulings have spun the NHL Playoffs out of control and have initiated martial law for players unhappy with their opponents. 

Did you take a night off from watching Stanley Cup hockey on Saturday night? If so, you missed plenty of fireworks across all of the games going on from both Conferences. Physical play, dirty hits and fights galore summarized nearly every Game 2 on the schedule. 

If you did miss out, fear not. We compiled a collection of video to get you caught up. 

In case you missed it, Claude Noel delivered the interview of the year. No, not to the Winnipeg Free Press, or to the Winnipeg Sun, or to the Globe and Mail (though that's where it wound up). No, the Winnipeg Jets coach delivered it to one season ticket holder by the name of Chuck Duboff, and the Globe and Mail deemed it publication worthy. This hard-hitting interview that if it went down was intended as a conversation unleashed such gems as...

If you read the Puck Drunk Love staff predictions from earlier this week you will have noticed that all of us selected the Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks to advance past the first round. After two games in each series, both the Canucks and Penguins find themselves in a surprising 0-2 hole despite enjoying home ice advantage. 

To be fair, both of these series have a lot of hockey left and we shouldn't crown a champion after just two games. However, the statement made by both the Los Angeles Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers by stealing away two games on the road as the series prepares to come back to their respected rinks is a huge story.

Granted, technically this hit on Henrik Zetterberg by Shea Weber wasn't a traditional hit. It was more of a "I'm gonna fight you, Steve!" kind of move than anything else:

The reaction on Twitter was immediate and universal: "What the hell was Weber thinking?" It didn't seem to matter what team you were a fan of (disclaimer: I'm a Blues fan and dislike the Wings, but I still thought that Weber should have been suspended), you were at the very least confused as to what Weber was doing with that move. He goes to hit Zetterberg, misses, and then just grabs him by the helmet and whaps his head into the glass a few times. Sure, because that's how you resolve conflicts in the NHL now. Zetterberg was trying to do a little annoying message sending by the time the final horn sounded, but it wasn't bad, and it didn't warrant something that would get you assault charges in the outside world.

The Los Angeles Kings pulled out a huge win in a tight game against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night. The game went back and forth and featured some lucky, and unlucky, bounces which ultimately found the Kings having the last laugh. 

Evidently the team Twitter account wanted to have a laugh as well. As shown in the photo above, LA's official account Tweeted out after the victory, "To everyone in Canada outside of BC, you're welcome". As you might have expected, fans outside of the Los Angeles area didn't find the joke very funny.