This wasn't a hockey game, it was a James Cameron film. It featured Pavel Datsyuk scoring for the first time in 16 playoff games, in breathtaking fashion, and Valtteri Filppula making several spectacular plays, including a beautiful feed to Henrik Zetterberg for a goal, and Jimmy Howard making the biggest saves of his bright young career and the supposedly limited Coyotes matching the Wings in an end-to-end, up-and-down game and Justin Abdelkader scoring after sitting in Game 1 and amazing plays by Zetterberg and Shane Doan and Miguel Cabrera and Kobe Bryant and if I'm losing all perspective and I'm not making sense, well, who can make sense of this?
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