Eastside's Hockey Elite Collide

WSH 3 - BOS 5
Shots: 25-19 BOS
PP: WSH - 1/3; BOS - 0/2

14:16 0-1 BOS Patrice Bergeron [28] (Erik Cole)
14:57 0-2 BOS Erik Cole [37] (Derek Morris, Patrice Bergeron)
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29:33 1-2 WSH Alexander Ovechkin [38] (Karl Alzner)
29:58 2-2 WSH Alexander Ovechkin [39] (Mike Green, Karl Alzner)
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44:05 2-3 BOS Jamie Langenbrunner [26] (Zach Hamill, Milan Lucic)
45:58 3-3 WSH Alexander Ovechkin [40] (Olli Jokinen, Alexander Semin)PP
49:58 3-4 BOS Milan Lucic [26] (Erik Cole)SH
58:36 3-5 BOS Brooks Laich [8] (Victor Hedman, Dennis Wideman) EN
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Three Stars:
1st: Erik Cole
2nd: Milan Lucic
3rd: Alexander Ovechkin

Farm Result: Hershey 0 - Providence 2

STL 6 - CBJ 2
Shots: 32-27 STL
PP: STL - 3/7; CBJ - 0/3

09:39 1-0 STL David Perron [12] (T.J. Oshie, Patrik Berglund)PP
18:26 2-0 STL Brad Boyes [24] (Paul Kariya, David Backes)PP
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27:19 3-0 STL Brendan Bell [6] (Brad Boyes, Carlo Colaiacovo)PP
33:36 3-1 CBS Jochen Hecht [12] (Mark Recchi, Mike Commodore)
35:41 4-1 STL Keith Tkachuk [21] (Eric Brewer, Carlo Colaiacovo)
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45:02 5-1 STL David Backes [29] (Carlo Colaiacovo, Eric Brewer)
46:44 5-2 CBS Mike Fisher [15] (Nikita Filatov)
49:58 6-2 STL Brad Boyes [25] (Paul Kariya, Eric Brewer)
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Three Stars:
1st: Brad Boyes
2nd: Eric Brewer
3rd: David Backes

Farm Result: Peoria 1 - Syracuse 1

EDM 1 - MIN 4
Shots: 22-15 MIN
PP: EDM - 1/4; MIN - 1/7

16:25 0-1 MIN Andrew Brunette [25] (Owen Nolan, James Sheppard)PP
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28:05 0-2 MIN Pierre-Marc Bouchard [16] (Mikko Koivu, Andrew Brunette)
31:26 0-3 MIN Andrew Brunette [26] (Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Kim Johnsson)
35:06 1-3 EDM Jean-François Jacques [18] (Luke Schenn, Andrew Cogliano)PP
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40:56 1-4 MIN Colton Gillies [14] (Petr Sykora, Kim Johnsson)
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Three Stars:
1st: Andrew Brunette
2nd: Pierre-Marc Bouchard
3rd: Colton Gillies

Farm Result: Springfield 3 - Houston 0

Ovechkin's hat trick isn't enough as Boston wins a crucial game and moves into the top spot in the East, the Blue Jackets fail to lock up the Central Division as the Blues steamroll them, and Minnesota wins an enormous game against 7th place Edmonton; a Minnesota win or a Flames and Sharks loss seals a playoff berth for the Wild.

http://ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip tells you what you need to know.

Well, at least Ovechkin wasn't hurt this time.

Well, so much for those playoff hopes. Maybe it's better this way since I'm going on vacation in a few weeks, which is right on cue by Sharks standards.

Terrible.

Solid win on the road against a 50-win team. Couple of tough home games coming up against Carolina and Buffalo before a regular season finale in Washington.

Zach Hamill continues to make his case for the playoff roster. Now I have to find out where to put Kessel.

Remaining games for President's Trophy contenders:
LA 114pts - @ANA, v.PHO, v.EDM, @COL
BOS 112pts - v.BUF, v.CAR, @WAS
WAS 110pts - @PIT, v. ATL, v.BOS
TB 108pts - v.CAR, v.OTT, v.FLA, @FLA

Remaining games for #7 and #8 playoff seeds in East:
OTT 87pts @FLA, @TB, v.BUF
MTL 88pts @NYI, @CAR, v.TOR
BUF 86pts v.NYR, @BOS, @OTT, @NJ

Being in the same division as all 3, I think Buffalo is the best and Montreal has the easiest road. BUF @ OTT will be huge.

GO WILD!