On Friday, Mike Milbury was asked what the Ducks could do to keep Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom from pitching a tent in front of goalie Jonas Hiller. Milbury is a former Boston defenseman and head coach and a former general manager of the Islanders. He also is weary of hearing contentiousness confused with violence.

"I don't know how they're going to stop him," Milbury said. "They've made the game so wimpy now. All this self-congratulatory nonsense about how the game has changed so dramatically forgets several areas, and this is one of them.

"When a defenseman can't give a body check or a short cross-check – I'm not talking about rape and murder here. We're talking about good, physical battles in front of the net and you don't have that anymore. You have Holmstrom and (Johan) Franzen even toeing inside the crease at times and there's not a damn thing anybody can do about it."