2008 NHL Playoffs: Bring Out The Brooms, Boys, Detroit Sweeps Colorado!

I just couldn't...........I just couldn't...........I just couldn't!

First, I just couldn't stay away from the TV on Thursday night. I had to watch Game Four of the Semi-Conference playoffs between the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Avalanche.

Then, I just couldn't stay awake until the end; I fell asleep about half way through the third period but I don't think I missed much.

And finally, I just couldn't not write an article about the Wings sweep over the Avs. What a fitting end to a wonderful and busy day.

So much time, so little to do...

My life took another left turn the other day and, according to my friends, three lefts make a (w)right. So I must be going in the (w)right direction now. I really have much bigger priorities than writing about the Wings but I decided to take a break from life and give y'all (boy, Okieland is getting to me) a word about one of the greatest hockey teams to don a pair of skates.

Now, I know some of you, and I won't mention names, have written some not-so-nice comments in my profile about the Wings.

Personally, I think you're just jealous of them.

No other team today can match them. You can say they're getting all the breaks or the refs aren't calling penalties against them or they are scoring "garbage goals."

It really doesn't matter. What matters is that they just dominated and demolished and almost humiliated Colorado in four straight games.

The stars are out tonight...

Henrik Zetterberg, Johan Franzen, and Chris Osgood have really come through for the Wings in this series against the Avs.

Zetterberg's goal in the second period will be on highlight reels for years to come.

I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

This was a different kind of series than I'm used to. If one team is going to dominate the series, they usually win all the games decisively.

This was not the case.

Games One and Three, the home-openers for both teams, were almost nail-biters.

Detroit would manage to hold on and win both 4-3.

Then there were Games Two and Four—blowout city for the Red Wings.

Colorado didn't have a chance. The Wings jumped out to such a big lead that the Avs just couldn't keep up with them and imploded.

I think Keanu Reeves said it best in the movie "The Replacements."

Gene Hackman, the head coach of the football team, asks his players what they're afraid of and Reeves says quicksand.

"You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move... you can't breathe... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand."

I believe that's what happened to Colorado in Game Four.

Let's take a look:

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