It’s elimination game time in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, with virtually every game on the schedule being win-or-go-home for someone. The Lightning ended the Blue Jackets’ postseason yesterday afternoon on a Brayden Point overtime goal (we’re all crying tears of sympathy on Columbus’s behalf, right? Yeah, didn’t think so. I’m sending Point a fruit basket). The Bruins beat the Hurricanes in five games, because sometimes wickedness triumphs in this world and we are powerless to stop it. Over in Edmonton, Nazem Kadri and the Avalanche stomped the Coyotes 7-1 and sent them packing—two of those goals were Naz’s, whose mittens are still nifty in blue and burgundy:
Today, both of the games on the schedule are elimination games; the Stars will try to keep the Flames from forcing a Game 7, and the Capitals will try to stay alive with a 3-1 series deficit against the Islanders (please, Caps, pull off the comeback and save us from the John Tavares takes this offseason).