Eastside's Hockey Elite Collide

SJ 6 - PHX 3
Shots: 30-19 PHX
PP: SJ - 1/1; PHX - 0/2

08:52 0-1 PHX Brett Connolly [5] (Oliver Ekman-Larsson)
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20:15 1-1 SJ Erik Cole [5] (Dany Heatley, Joe Thornton)
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42:56 1-2 PHX Mikkel Boedker [3] (Brett Connolly, Tomas Kaberle)
43:38 2-2 SJ Derek Forbort [2] (Ryan Getzlaf)PP
45:21 3-2 SJ Jack Skille [1] (Marco Sturm)
50:43 3-3 PHX Brett Connolly [6] (Tomas Kaberle)
53:11 4-3 SJ Brad Boyes [5] (Ivan Telegin, Ryan Getzlaf)
59:05 5-3 SJ Joe Thornton [3] (Nicklas Lidström, Niklas Kronwall) EN
59:45 6-3 SJ Joe Thornton [4] (Dany Heatley, Nicklas Lidström)
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Three stars:
1st: Joe Thornton
2nd: Brett Connolly
3rd: Nicklas Lidstrom

Best of 7 Western Conference Semifinal Tied 1-1.

CBJ 3 - CGY 2
Shots: 26-25 CGY
PP: CBJ - 1/4; CGY - 0/2

06:35 1-0 CBJ Alex Burrows [1] (Nicklas Grossman, Jeff Halpern)
08:36 2-0 CBJ Derick Brassard [5] (Joonas Donskoi, Rick Nash)
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30:52 2-1 CGY Kyle Okposo [3] (Ryan Stoa, Shawn Matthias)
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48:14 2-2 CGY Ryan Stoa [4] (Shawn Matthias)
48:51 3-2 CBJ Scott Niedermayer [3] (John Moore, David Backes)PP
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Three stars:
1st: David Backes
2nd: Derick Brassard
3rd: Alex Burrows

Columbus leads Best of 7 Western Conference Semifinal 2-0.

"Parker, why you heff to be so mad? It's just hockey. Just a game you know?" - Ilya Bryzgalov

With a trip to the desert looming, San Jose avoids an early 2-0 deficit. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the Flames as they'll need both contests at home to even up the series.

http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip

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Aw man, WTF.

Bryz had a game like this against LA, though, and he bounced back. If he doesn't, there's always Thomas Griess.

Another evenly-played one-goal game. Mason's been excellent in this series. I hope it continues, but I'm sure EHM's due to throw him a 20-save on 26 shots kind of effort here shortly.

Nice to see 3/4 lines put up goals with Jumbo Joe dominating. Now if the defense would just stop letting the overrated prospects unit score we'd be cool.

Steal one in Phoenix pleaaaaaase?

Fun fact: That was the Sharks' first PP goal of the postseason. Took just 7 games.

David Backes is first star with one assist?