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GSG · April 24, 2018

Leafs 3

Bruins 1

Game 7 is Wednesday night at Boston

Caps win 6-3 to take the series over Columbus (sorry @OH HSKR FAN) 4-2.

Caps will face the Pens (again) in the second round.

GSG · April 25, 2018

Stanley Cup Playoffs: NHL announces second round openers

Thursday, April 26

• The Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals will kick off at 7 p.m. ET (NBCSN) from Capital One Center in Washington, D.C.

• Out West, the San Jose Sharks will visit T-Mobile Arena and the Vegas Golden Knights for their opener at 10 p.m. ET (NBCSN).

Friday, April 27

• The top two teams in the NHL will meet in the first game of their best-of-7 at 8 p.m. ET (NBCSN) as the Nashville Predators play host to Patrik Laine and the Winnipeg Jets.

Saturday, April 28

• If Boston advances, the Bruins and Lightning will play Game 1 at 3 p.m. ET (NBC) at AMALIE Arena in Tampa.

• If Toronto advances, the Maple Leafs will get their Hockey Night in Canada timeslot and visit the Lightning at 8 p.m. ET (NBCSN)

GSG · April 25, 2018

No Malkin and no Hagelin for the Pens tomorrow. I'm not real excited about that. Not sure what's going on with Hagelin. Hopefully not a concussion.

MLB 51 · April 25, 2018

10 minutes ago, GSG said:

No Malkin and no Hagelin for the Pens tomorrow. I'm not real excited about that. Not sure what's going on with Hagelin. Hopefully not a concussion.

I don't like either of these teams. Stupid CBJ's :B)

beorach · April 25, 2018

Boston looked tired early in the 3rd period of game 6. I don't know what to expect tonight. They've outplayed the Leafs some nights and either won or lost depending on Fred A. more than anything. Rask doesn't deserve all the grief he gets either. I didn't even think he was that terrible the night he gave up 4 and they brought in Khudobin. Cassidy even had at least one costly lapse of attention/judgment in terms of rolling lines for matchups this series.

McAvoy hasn't had a good series. The B's first line doesn't have a great +/-. Nash hasn't exactly been worth the money but I don't know why anybody would have expected him to dominate at this point. I have to point out that, for all the "bad press" Marchand deserves, he usually admits he was stupid about the stupid stuff he does. Kadri tried to hip check a player on his knees from behind and argued against his suspension.

OH HSKR FAN · April 26, 2018

Bruins avoid the choke by winning tonight.

GSG · April 26, 2018

Bruins win 7-4 to take the series 4-3 over the Leafs

FULL second round schedule:

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-playoffs-round-2-schedule/c-280468316

HuskerNBigD · April 27, 2018

Vegas - wow. They might be the real deal.

GSG · April 27, 2018

Pens rally in the 3rd period to win 3-2 and take Game 1

Knights blowout the sharks 7-0 to take Game 1

beorach · April 27, 2018

On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 9:26 PM, OH HSKR FAN said:

Bruins avoid the choke by winning tonight.

I suppose you could say that but, when you're a 2-seed fighting off a 3-seed (talking overall for the East besides with these seedings - maybe Washington was tied for points with the Leafs, though) in the FIRST ROUND, I don't know that it has the same kind of feel to it as if you were talking about a 2-seed playing a 7-seed. Toronto is pretty solid and gave the B's all they could handle. I just hope they aren't hurting too badly afterward considering it won't get any easier...