The Nashville Predators found themselves in a good situation just after the trade deadline. They had a chance to add in a player who was considered the best in the KHL in Alexander Radulov without having to give up anything. People looked at the move, saw his numbers in Russia and thought the Preds just became that much more of a bon a fide Cup contender.

But nobody really knew how it was going to. The KHL might be a good league that seems to be getting better every year, but it's not the NHL. A lot of people were quick to point out that a lot of the moves Radulov pulled off in Russia wouldn't work back in the NHL.

With this being the Best Of here at Eye on Hockey, let's just go ahead and say this isn't exactly the best of Alexander Radulov (h/t to Puck Daddy for the video) as pointed out by NBC analyst Keith Jones, with no holding back.

In Radulov's defense, he has been a plus player in every regular season he's had in the NHL and each postseason too. That doesn't mean that Radulov is a good defensive player or anything, but it at least leads you to believe that he has a positive impact on the game more often than not.

Plus, you know, Radulov is there for his offense. That doesn't absolve him from playing poor defensive hockey, but his main responsibility is to score. That's something that needs to get better just like the defense, and his coach Barry Trotz knows it.

"He’s going to have to do it on his own a little bit," Trotz said.

This much is pretty certain. The Predators are going to need the best of Radulov if they are going to win four of the next five games.

Danny Briere. It's the postseason so of course he's going to be in the running for this nomination, just about every night this time of year that's going to be the case. He scored twice, including in overtime, to help the Flyers take a 1-0 series lead on the Devils on Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia.

He now has 106 points in 104 career playoff games. Amazing.

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Often times it isn't the goal itself that makes the cut here but the play that set it up. That's exactly the case again today because even though Radim Vrbata didn't score this goal -- Martin Hanzal did -- Vrbata made one hell of a play to set it up, going reverse 5-hole on the pass between Pekka Rinne's legs right to Hanzal for the slam dunk.

That will make a lot of highlight reels to be sure.

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Even though the Devils lost, Martin Brodeur did make a couple of spectacular saves for New Jersey in Game 1. Saves like this one against Scott Hartnell after a perfect pass from Claude Giroux during a Philly power play in overtime.

It gets better on each replay you see. It's a fill split kick save from Brodeur with the end of his pads. It was an excellent pass from Giroux that should have probably beaten Brodeur but he made an amazing effort to keep the puck out. Of course, the Flyers would score just a couple minutes later, but that doesn't take away from this play.

They're getting very excited in the desert and, well, they should. Here's your PSA of the night courtesy of Phoenix blog Five For Howling.

The Coyotes now have a 2-0 series lead on the Predators in their Western Conference semifinal. This marks the first time since 1987 the Coyotes (then the Jets) have had a 2-0 lead in a playoff series. That's an awfully long time.

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