Holtby plays guitar; Thornton vs. Kopitar (Puck Headlines)
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• The Philadelphia Flyers will are playing for late owner Ed Snider these playoffs. (Tom Gulitti)
• Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby uses a guitar to mellow out during the ups and down of an NHL season. [Sports Illustrated]
• Washington general manager Brian MacLellan feels at home with the organization and in Washington D.C. [Washington Post]
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• In the summer of 2011 the Philadelphia Flyers sent captain Mike Richards to the Los Angeles Kings for a package of players. That trade helped create the foundation for this year’s Flyers team. [Eye on Hockey]
• Looking at the Flyers/Capitals season series, game-by-game, from an advanced stats perspective. [Broad Street Hockey]
• How will the Los Angeles Kings handle San Jose Sharks’ ‘point per-game’ center Joe Thornton? He'll see a heavy dose of Anze Kopitar [LA Kings Insider]
• The New York Islanders and Florida Panthers prepare to face off in Game 1 of their first-round series Thursday. Here’s a tale of the tape between the two teams. [Isles Beat]
• The Islanders are aiming to win their first playoff series since 1993 when they beat the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins in the first-round. [Brooklyn Eagle]
• Islanders 2014 first-round draft pick Michael Dal Colle will join the American Hockey League’s Bridgeport Sound Tigers for the remainder of the season. Dal Colle just completed his season with the Oshawa Generals. [Buzzing the Net]
• Panthers goaltender Roberto Luongo and other veterans look to set the tone for their team this playoff. Said Luongo, "I had a chance to go to the Finals five years ago and you never know when you are going to get another opportunity and when an opportunity rolls along you want to take advantage of it, enjoy it and try to make the most out of it." [Sun-Sentinel]
• Explaining the physics of a slapshot. [CP via Yahoo]
• Is a healthy Tyler Seguin is the Dallas Stars’ secret weapon against the Minnesota Wild in the first-round of the postseason? Seguin missed the last several weeks of the regular season with an Achilles issue. He won't go in Game 1, but should return for Saturday's Game 2. [WFAA]
• Setting the scene on how the Stars went from bankruptcy in 2011 to Central Division champions this year. [Dallas Stars]
• Why Dallas and the Stars organization was a better fit for Seguin than the Boston Bruins: “… it's been a different environment here in Dallas. There's no spotlight on how unkempt his European room is. Or whether or not he knows the difference between a washer and dryer. Or if he needed bodyguards to protect him from having a few more shots at Pat O'Briens.” [Defending Big D]
• Minnesota Wild forward Zach Parise was at the Mayo Clinic seeing a spine specialist Monday. It’s now being determined is whether Parise needs season-ending microdiscectomy surgery to relieve pressure on the spinal nerve column. [Star Tribune]
• The Wild have signed 2014 first-round draft pick Alex Tuch. The 19-year-old Tuch just completed his sophomore season at Boston College. [Hockey Wilderness]
• Can the Los Angeles Kings ‘flip the switch’ in time to beat the Sharks in their first-round series? The Kings lost their Pacific Division lead in the final month of the regular season, giving them the matchup with San Jose. [Frozen Royalty]
• Sharks goaltender Martin Jones is preparing for his first playoff start of his career. Jones has played just 56 NHL playoff minutes. [Mercury News]
• San Jose general manager Doug Wilson deserves major credit for his team’s turnaround this season. The Sharks didn’t make the playoffs last year. [Blades of Teal]
• This Nashville Predators team has the worst home record of all their prior postseason squads. The Preds finished 23-11-7 at Bridgestone Arena this year. [Nashville Post]
• Pekka Rinne has an average postseason resume. In 34 career playoff games, the Nashville goaltender has 15 wins, the fewest among 11 active goaltenders who have started at least 30 playoff games since 2010. His 2.47 goals against average is seventh and his .914 save percentage eighth. [Tennessean]
• Rangers defensemen Marc Staal and Dan Girardi struggled in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins. [Today’s Slapshot]
• The Russian U17 team is ready to play in the IIHF’s U18 tournament. The original group was pulled due to a doping scandal. [AP via Yahoo]
• Meet Arizona State’s first signing class for their first NCAA hockey season next year. [Arizona State]
• Taking a look inside the NHL locker rooms at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. This is where a potential Las Vegas expansion team would play. [Sin Bin]
• Your fantasy hockey injury news for the playoffs. [Dobber Hockey]
• The NHL is taking its case against former referee Dean Warren to the Supreme Court of Canada. Eight years after the NHL fired Warren and the former official failed in an attempt to be reinstated, the league and Warren remain in a legal battle over his $250,000 severance. [TSN]
• There are many talented players from Northern Ontario vying for the Stanley Cup this postseason [Sudbury.com]
FInally, Watch Bobby Orr throw out the first pitch at the Boston Red Sox Fenway opener.
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