Oh, forgot a very minor thing about this morning. Peter Forsberg didn’t skate and Denver Post writer Adrian Dater has a suspicion he may not be playing  tonight. We will see.

Minor thing forgotten there.

Erik Reitz, 25, will make his playoff debut tonight, Lemaire said for Petteri Nummelin. But he didn’t say Nummelin wouldn’t play for sure.

Could Nummelin be moved to wing for one of the tough guys and Sean Hill be scratched?

Don’t know. Lemaire indicated that there may be forward changes, so maybe its Benoit Pouliot.

Regardless, Reitz, who hasn’t played in the NHL this year, will play his first game since March 9. Just ran into him at lunch, and he’s busy texting everybody he knows.

Apparently Russoville residents have a pregame meal tonight at Tom Reid’s at 4:30.

Game 6 is 9 pm again, so get your game story online.

How about this? It escaped my mind that I was even going back to Denver tomorrow until I got the email from the airline to check in.

But don’t worry, without that email, it probably would have dawned on me by tomorrow morning. Hopefully.

I’ve gotten some emails from here and Denver wondering if Stephane Veilleux would be suspended for his hit from behind on Paul Stastny.

He won’t be, and Veilleux said this morning he regrets that hit and that that’s not him. And its not. He usually plays the game with respect.

Quite frankly, if Veilleux should be suspended, so should Tyler Arnason. His elbow on Keith Carney was the most vicious elbow I’ve seen at one of the games I’ve covered this year. Way more vicious than Ed Jovanovski’s on Marian Gaborik this season, and Jovo Cop got a game.

Regardless, like I said yesterday, Veilleux needed to be unplugged or something Tuesday night.

What else? What else?

Gaborik looked to be squeezing his stick into sawdust (if sticks were still wooden that would apply) at yesterday’s practice. Think he’s starting to feel the pressure?

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