Written by Scott on Sunday, April 8th, 2018
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We had a good day for the tips yesterday as we went 2-1. It seems like the season just started but here we are on the final day of the season.
We had the Blues – Avalance game to go over 5.5 and it did when the Avalanche won 5-2. With the win the Avs clinched the final playoff spot in the West and will now play the Predators in the first round. The win stopped the Avs losing streak at 3.
Our 2nd win of the day was Over 6 in the Devils vs Capitals game and the Caps won 5-3. Ovechkin scored twice and won the Rocket Richard trophy for the 7th time in his career. He tried to get to 50 but he had to settle with 49.
Our loss was our pick of the Knights to beat the Flames but the Flames went off, scoring 7 and beating the Knights 7-1. Jankowski scored 4 times for the Flames.
The Flyers beat the Rangers 5-0 which clinched them a playoff spot eliminating the Panthers. Giroux scored his first regular season hat trick in the win which was the icing on the cake for him as he had the best season of his career scoring 34 goals and adding 68 assists.
Only one game today. It’s the Panthers vs The Bruins. The Panthers are eliminated and The Bruins can win the Atlantic and gain first place in the East with a win in this game. This is a makeup game when the orignal meeting was canceled due to a winter storm on January 4th. I don’t have a tip for this game instead I’ll just watch it and begin doing my research for the playoffs.
This was another great year of hockey. There are some teams eliminated who I would have never thought would be. But that just shows you how great this league is and that anything can happen.
The playoffs start on Wednesday and we will be back in a day or two with our writeups about each series.
