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Northeast Regional (Worchester, MA) No. 1 Boston College vs 4 Air Force 2 Minnesota-Duluth (Kishel) vs 3 Maine West Regional (St. Paul, MN) No. 1 North Dakota (Kristo, MacMillan) vs 4 Western Michigan 2 Minnesota vs 3 Boston East Regional (Bridgeport, CT) No. 1 Union vs 4 Michigan State 2 Miami vs 3 UMass-Lowell Midwest Regional (Green Bay, WI) No. 1 Michigan (Bennett, Pateryn) vs 4 Cornell 2 Ferris State vs 3 Denver (Didier)

WHL playoffs #4 Vancouver (Gallagher) vs #5 Spokane #1 Tri City (Holland) vs #8 Seattle or Everett (TBD today, If Seattle wins vs Portland they are in, if they lose Everett is in) OHL #1 London (Tinordi) vs #8 Windsor QMJHL TBD

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2WHDbIlSzXc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Kovalev 2.0 This is awesome

Minny is scary As for the rest we have a bunch of games where they play each other. We have to stop grabbing points though. Minny and the Isles will go D though

I think Oilers need both a dman and another centre and will basically go BPA at the draft but with the exception they probably wont touch forsberg

How is Landeskog the Oilers need over Nuge? Oilers were set at wing with Hall, Eberle, Paajarvi, Hemsky, Omark, but had nothing in terms of a #1 Centre

Brock Nelson (isles prospect) is so good. I'd love to steal him. Power forward top 6 Centre for sure. He'll be as good as Patches but at Centre IMO. What a Prospect Stud

Two things 1) Former Habs Scout Grant McCagg (now with TSN and McKeens) was spreading to anyone who would listen last month that Timmins hate Grigorenkos inconsistent effort and wouldnt take him top 10. This could be true or it could be Timmins using an old friend and media member to spread misinformation about the Habs preferences. 2) I think you go BPA when there is a head and shoulders guy ahead of others, but go positional need when you are well stocked at the position and the difference is very small. I dont think its always one way or always the other way, I think each situation is fluid and depends on difference between players and needs. Ie I think Murray is a very small bit ahead of Forsberg but if I was picking for us Id take Forsberg, cause the difference is really small and the need for a high end forward is so much more pressing; however if we are 5th and Yakupov, Grig, Galy, Forsberg are gone I take Murray over Faksa because there is a big gap there. We've seen this from Timmins before in 2005 when he said to Gainey; I've got a franchise D (Staal) and a franchise G (Price) on the board; who do you want, and Gainey choose the goalie.

I hate Bourque so much. I call him the Natural Born Tanker

Kathleen Lavoie ‏ @kathleenlavoie Après le match, les joueurs des Remparts admissibles au repêchage (Grigo, Brassard, Culkin) ont rencontré Timmins et Boisvert. #Habs Timmins went to the Remparts game today and talked to Grigorenko after the game Back on our radar?

Dont count for tiebreaker purposes. People wanted to make Regulation and OT wins more valuable than SO, started last year

when did cammy score 40? fair enough on waiting, i agree i wouldnt have done the deal. No way to know he didnt advertise though, GM who said he wasnt told could have been on the no trade list.

Michigan loses 3-2 in final but will be a #1 seed in their region for the frozen four tourney (clinched #2 in country with win yesterday) North Dakota up 4-0 in the final. They will also be a #1 regional seed (#3 in country with this win) 1g 1a for MacMillan, incredible playoff for this kid Three straight WCHA Championships for Kristo Denver (Didier) and UMD (Kishel) will also make the tourney

Im annoyed by Bourque but Flames wouldnt have given up their top prospect IMO. Baertschi is literally the only prospect they have; UNTOUCHABLE

1 pt sucks but Isles, Leafs Canes all get two We passed Minnesota though Currently in line for fourth overall, but I think Minny will go D anyway. Still want them to win though Tied in ROW, shootout wins dont count. They have the tiebreaker due to games in hand but if they lose in regulation we pull ahead on gf/ga

Subban and Gorges are so much better than any other D on this team (dressed last night) it isnt funny. This just confirms to me that we need to sign a top 4 Dman, because Markov fills one of the holes but not the other. Emelin is good but its too much to rely on both Markov's health and him avoiding the sophomore slump. There are just too many question marks to not sign another 20 minute plus per game dman. One injury or one step back from Emelin and we'll be f'd again. So a third pairing guy like a Shane O'Brien or Colin White wont cut it. Need to get a real minute eater like Jackman, Stuart, Allen, Grossman, or Jurcina.

Last regular season game is tonight. Hes sitting but is good to go for game 1 of playoffs. If it was playoffs he'd play tonight. Havent seen much on Yakupov. Canes win today

Just watching last nights game now. Galchenyuk's skating is suprisingly good for his second game. Knee looks great. Good to learn today he's fine too. Sitting tonight as a precaution but will play Game 1 of playoffs As for the injury he hurt it taking a faceoff. Looked like his stick got jammed under Domi and he tried to pull it out and its a bicep or tricep strain IMO; not sure why people think its shoulder, didnt look that waay to me

Koivu is back today. Backstrom soon.

Nikita Filatov a healthy scratch for his Russian MHL (russian jr league) team in 2 straight playoff games. He was sent from the big club to the junior team when the big club was eliminated from their playoffs Dmitry Chesnokov ‏ @dchesnokov "If u took a spot from young guys who played in regular season, u have 2..get a result...and not just skate around." coach on Filatov. Ouch What a B-U-S-T

Michigan wins in OT and will play Western Michigan in the CCHA final Darren Dietz plays as 1 of only 4 Saskatoon defenceman dressed, goes over 30 minutes and gets 2 assists in a 5-3 win. Patrick Holland adds another assist to his totals Brendan Gallagher adds another goal to his totals.

Dominic Tiano ‏ @dominictiano Looks now like Alex Galchenyuk will not play in Sarnia's final game in Plymouth tonight and will be back for the playoffs.

North Dakota falls behind 3-0 to Minnesota Gets it to 3-1 by the end of the 2nd Explodes for 5 goals in the third and wins 6-3 advancing to the WCHA Championship Kristo and MacMillan 1 assist each Michigan - Bowling Green is in OT In the QMJHL 1 goal 2 assists for Bournival 1 assist for Ellis

Tinordi named second best body checker in Western Conference Coaches Poll

I dont know but I PVRed the game. I'll watch it Sunday probably and let you know