Getty ImagesPittsburgh Penguins Coach Dan Bylsma gave Tomas Vokoun the start in Game 2 against the Boston Bruins after contemplating a switch back to Marc-Andre Fleury.

Just 16:31 into the first period, the switch was made.

Vokoun was pulled after giving up three goals on 12 shots, as Fleury re-entered the players for the first time since May 7.

The Bruins led the Penguins 4-1 after a wild first period on Monday night, holding a 1-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Final.

It all started with this Brad Marchand goal just 28 seconds into the game, after a Sidney Crosby turnover:

The onslaught continued with a Nathan Horton goal at 14:37, followed by David Krejci’s eighth of the playoffs just 1:54 later.

That was the end for Vokoun.

Listen to any Boston sports talk segment on the Bruins, and you’re going to hear someone lamenting the lack of production from Tyler Seguin. This is true when Seguin is leading the team in scoring, and this is true when Seguin’s having a pitiful offensive postseason.

Like this postseason, for example. Seguin has one goal and three assists in 13 playoff games, skating to a minus-2.

The goal and two of those helpers came in Games 4 and 5 of the New York Rangers series, leading to some hope he was turning the corner.

DJ Bean of WEEI offers some diagnosis:

The issues with Seguin’s game at this point don’t seem to be anything necessarily new. He can be a bit hesitant if there’s a possibility of contact, but he was the same way when he was lighting it up last year. He’s throwing a lot of pucks on net, which is good, although he had none in the Bruins’ Game 1 win over the Penguins.

So it hasn’t been a strong offensive postseason for Seguin. Which might be OK.

Seguin’s turned into a supremely talented role player for the Boston Bruins as his goal-scoring sputters. He’s skating with Rich Peverley and Chris Kelly on the team’s third line.

Via ESPN Boston, trying to rationalize Seguin’s role vs. his lack of scoring:

“I thought our third line played by far their best game of the [playoffs],” Julien said of Game 1. “So hopefully they can muster some goals here because that would certainly help.”

“I’m competing well and working hard out there,” Seguin said. “I’m playing my role on the team. I’m here to win games, not to want to score every single shift. It’s frustrating at times, but we’re winning games and that definitely makes you happy and it’s fun right now.”

The difference between “hey, at least he’s playing his role well” and “why the hell isn’t Tyler Seguin doing better than one goal in 13 games?!” is wins and losses. If the Bruins keep rolling, perhaps the “winning games and not scoring every shift” mantra works. But the minute the tide turns … well, it’s not David Krejci who'll be blamed for the offense sputtering.

Getty ImagesThe New York Rangers are in the market for a head coach, and fans have been speculating it could be anyone from Lindy Ruff to Mark Messier to other dark horse candidates.

NBC Sports analyst Mike Milbury isn’t one of those candidates.

At least we don’t think so, unless Glen Sather is off his meds.

He coached the Boston Bruins and New York Islanders for parts of six seasons during the 1990s, compiling a record of 146-160-45 and making the playoffs in both his Bostonian seasons. When you haven’t coached in two lockouts-time, one assumes you won’t be a front-burner candidate in 2013.

Which is why Lighthouse Hockey, an Islanders blog, decided to have a little fun with the idea that the man who ruined their franchise the former Islanders GM/coach had been hired by the Rangers. From LH, an SB Nation blog:

But both Sather and Milbury are betting on the latter's long stay in the NHL as being the missing ingredient for getting New York over the hump.

"Mike and I have known each other for a long, long time," Sather said after giving a vintage Rangers warm-up jacket to his new coach. "That's not to say we've always seen eye-to-eye. But he and I are from the old school, so to speak, and we know what kind of team we want. One that's solid defensively, has depth on offense and never backs down from physical play. That's why I made the call and brought him on board."

"If hard work, commitment and loyalty mean old-fashioned, then yes I am," said Milbury.

The piece wasn’t outwardly satirical, but c’mon: Rangers warm-up jacket? Like this one from his Islanders days, perhaps?

So no, Mike Milbury wasn’t hired as Rangers head coach, leaving him to continue his enlightening constructive criticism on NBC Sports Network.

But that didn’t stop Rangers fans and other hockey nuts on social media from totally freaking the [expletive] out …

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"Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis is inescapably catchy and an open invitation for parodies. A witty gentleman named Evan Walsh decided to bring some mad flow to the track about Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins, in support of the Boston Bruins in the 2013 NHL Eastern Conference Final.

Guess what? It’s No. 1 on iTunes! No, just kidding, it’s effing terrible. (NSFW WARNING: A few salty adult words.)

A few random thoughts …

• Every time a Bruins fans says he’d pay to see Sidney Crosby’s jaw shattered by another puck, a torch lit for Matt Cooke goes out.

• “Chara's a big ass Ruski." Sorry, Slovakia, but all know he’s got crazy vowels and is totally Russian looking. Oh, wait, look, a rebuttal:

• Jarome Iginla does not smell like rotten milk. He smells of tooth whitener, Albertan beef and regret. We all know this.

• Despite our cynicism about Evan Walsh's status as a lyricist, “He might be 60 but hey he's still got it/Used to have a mullet and damn he used to rock it” is the greatest Jimmy Buffett lyric never written.

• All that said, it’s good to see Dave Attell show off his hip-hop skills, even while wearing a miner’s lamp and a bathrobe.

Getty ImagesPittsburgh Penguins Coach Dan Bylsma joked that he considered a goaltending switch for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final against the Boston Bruins because “I watched the NHL Network, so I've heard it talked about.”

So it’s nice to know someone is watching the NHL Network, at the very least.

Bylsma, however, made his call for Monday night’s game, down 0-1 to the Bruins: Vokoun gets the start.

“Coaches think about a lot of things, lineup, players, schemes, so like I said, I heard people talk about it on NHL Network, so it did cross my mind,” he said.

By steadying the Penguins after Marc-Andre Fleury’s Swiss cheese impression against the New York Islanders (and previous to that, against the Flyers last postseason), Vokoun earned the right to get a shot at stabilizing Pittsburgh after a chaotic Game 1 loss.

That said, he was anything but solid in the 3-0 defeat: He struggled with rebound control, pucks at his skates and could be faulted on at least one of the Bruins’ goals.

If the Penguins lose Game 2, no matter how Vokoun plays, he’s done.

The New York Rangers have a coaching vacancy, and nostalgic hearts were all aflutter over the weekend after a report that Mark Messier AND Wayne Gretzky were both considering pursuing it.

From the NY Post:

Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky both are interested as taking over for John Tortorella as the next coach of the Rangers, The Post has confirmed. After Tortorella was fired on Wednesday, a slew of possible candidates arose from both inside and outside the organization. Messier was the one name being mentioned that didn’t have a day of professional head coaching experience, while Gretzky hasn’t coached since he was behind the Coyotes’ bench in 2009.

As originally reported by Canadian outlet SportsNet, Messier wants this to be his first head-coaching job in either the NHL or AHL. The sole coaching experience for the 52-year-old is with Team Canada during the 2010 Deutschland Cup and the 2010 Spengler Cup. He was also the general manager for Canada during the 2010 World Championships in Germany.

Gretzky was the head coach for the Phoenix Coyotes for four seasons, going 143-161-24.

Alas, it appears Gretzky’s interest is overstated or he’s a total pessimist about the gig. Darren Dreger of TSN reported on Saturday (s/t NYR Blog) that Gretzky said he shouldn’t be on the candidates list and that it’s "very unlikely" he would coach the Rangers.

Here’s the thing: Gretzky would actually make sense for the Rangers. A lot of sense, and a hell of a lot more sense than Messier, who has less NHL head coaching experience than Rogie Vachon.

When he resigned as head coach with the Phoenix Coyotes, I listed seven reasons he was a failure during four playoff-less seasons. Some things he can’t fix – immortal players do often make mortal coaches.

But the Rangers won’t be the ‘built on the cheap’ collection of castoff that his Coyotes teams were, and Gretzky won’t have to learn on the job as he did in his previous gig.

Plus, he could simply focus on coaching if he wanted to with the Rangers, rather than the several hats he wore with the Coyotes and his oversight of the Gretzky brand, which offered its own distractions. And lord knows there won’t be the same sort

Getty ImagesWhen it comes to issues of player safety in the NHL, there always needs to be a flashpoint moment to spark the debate.

Hybrid icing gets a look when someone’s seriously injured on the end boards. The head injuries to Marc Savard and Sidney Crosby led us to Rule 48.

Now, it’s the horrific eye injury to the New York Rangers’ Marc Staal that’s leading to a serious, potentially final, debate on visors.

The NHLPA has been polling its membership on visors for weeks. The results will be passed along to the players’ competition committee, which could approve new action on visors from the NHL.

According to Elliotte Friedman, the three options on the visor question are:

- Don’t change anything

- Grandfather them in

- Make them mandatory for all, immediately.

“After talking to some players, I think it’s going to be the biggest number ever for grandfathering. The question is whether that number is big enough for anything to change,” said Friedman.

At this point, it’s hard to imagine ‘grandfathering’ in mandatory visors isn’t going to happen.

Consider that the NHL’s general managers have already signed off on it. Via ESPN.com, at the March GM meetings:

"Our managers are for grandfathering visors," said Colin Campbell, the NHL's executive vice president and director of hockey operations. "All players coming into the league would wear visors. We wouldn't ask players now who don't wear them to wear them. ...

"The NHLPA told us they had some traction in that area."

That, they apparently have.

Consider that