Russell would've been out by a lot, that throw was a missle. Guessing he was held up due to the scouting report on the RF. Also Cosart sucks, we should score at least 5 runs on him. it was way too far up the line to have gotten him, i think
i think the blackhawks run would still be remembered as being more impressive. that first crosby team that won the cup was too long ago, and they had too many ugly/disappointing playoff exits between then and last year. also the east was pretty weak in lots of those years. the blackhawks consistently did it against great competition.
it was a ticky tack call, but heyward definitely lunged to his left a little bit there for no apparent reason. maybe he was trying to adjust to hit the bag correctly or something, but it did kind of look intentional
also we still thought/hoped that soler had more value at the time. if we knew that one year of davis was soler's worth, a jorge for wilson swap would have been received a little differently.