People only remember the Devils run in 2003 and the Ducks-Wild series that had about 5 goals and forget how great the early part of those playoffs were.
The Ducks shocking sweep of the defending champ Red Wings with Giguere putting in a performance for the ages.
Dallas and Edmonton played several nail-biters in their 6th meeting in the last seven years.
Canucks came from down 3-1 to beat the Blues in 7 after the flu crippled St. Louis.
Wild pull off not one, but two 3-1 comebacks. Thrilling second round series with the Canucks that sparked an instant rivalry.
Ducks and Stars play one of the longest games in history to open their series, another big upset for Anaheim.
Leafs and Flyers play an OT-filled seven-gamer. Flyers crush them in Game 7, but that shouldn't diminish a great first six games. (And Game 7 was great too if you didn't like Toronto
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Lightning return to the playoffs for the first time in ages and rattle off four straight versus the Caps after dropping the first two at home. St. Louis with a triple-OT series winner on Easter (Washington eliminated in a marathon OT on Easter, where did we see that before?).
There's no chance that this was the worst playoffs ever. I'm just going from memory here, so I've probably left out some other great moments as well.