Unfortunately with only one Easter Conference team in action last night I didn't actually see any of the games so if i miss something please feel free to comment.

Studs

Quick, Quick, like a chat. Sensational!
L.A. King goalie Jonathan Quick posted his league leading fourth shut out in a 2-0 win over the San Jose Sharks making 33 saves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ywv_JCyolU

Preds pounce on limping Oilers to snap a four game losing streak.
Edmonton have lost seven of their last ten now after Tootoo scored the game winning goal late in the third. As Dobber pointed out in today's ramblings, in Tootoo's last four games he has five points, four PIM's and 16 SOG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgmJS2t_EgY

Cal Clutterbuck has the best hockey name ever!
And he is playing very good hockey this year as well. Clutterbuck scored his third short-handed goal of the season to help the Wild snap their two game losing streak. Clutterbuck also had an assist, three shots on goal, was +2 and had three hits and was the games second star in last nights stat line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fYVteC8jo

Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Kirk Muller and Dale Hunter on their first NHL Head Coaching jobs
Team Canada announces its preliminary roster yesterday for the World Junior Tournament. It is the most exciting hockey tournament in the world IMO and I can't wait. Congratulations to all who were selected for their country and good luck making the team.

Duds

You're Fired!
Bruce Boudreau and Paul Maurice take the fall in Washington and Carolina. Struggling super stars poor performance leads to head coaching changes.
It will be interesting to watch their replacements Dale Hunter and Kirk Muller, both first time NHL coaches. Hunter has plenty of head coaching experience in the OHL with the London Knights but no NHL coaching experience. Muller has plenty of NHL experience as an assistant coach, but only a hand full of games as a head coach in the AHL. What experience will have more immediate success, NHL, or Head Coaching?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7zo1BvvA4

Pacioretty gets a "MAX" suspension
I am pretty frustrated with this. At the start of the season I was elated to see what Shannahan was attempting to do with hits to the head. But lately, I am really having a hard time understanding why Wolski was not suspended and Pacioretty was. I did not even think Pacioretty should have been suspended, let alone be suspended. Watch the video and you be the judge!
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=138334

Pronger out for four weeks
Pronger owners will be frustrated as he is having another surgery. This time it is on the aging defenders knee and he will be sidelined four weeks.
(Couldn't think of a video to go with this one)

Dishonorable mentions:
Taylor Hall is out 2-4 weeks and as a result MPS has seen elevated ice time. 15:12 last night but still was held pointless. In 20 games this season, MPS has only one assist. Brutal!

That's it. Keep your stick on the ice!

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I love the world juniors but the most exciting tournament is definitely Olympic ice hockey. If you disagree, try telling that to the fear boner I had for like two week's straight during the last Olympics.

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LOL, what the hell is a "fear boner".....never mind, I don't want to know!

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I hear ya metal, I was 6 rows up behind the away team net for the Canada-Russia game and for me no other live sporting/entertainment event has come close to what that was like.

Love these S&D posts but where's the love for Eberle? Everyone is talking about the Nuge (and rightfully so), but with that nice snipe last night Ebs has rattled off 13 pts in his last 8 gms and sits at ppg for the season. Pretty impressive start to the season for one of the most polarizing prospects on the dobber boards in recent memory.

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G A PTS +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV% SO

C - Crosby, Getzlaf, Seguin
LW - Neal, D. Sedin
RW - Perry, Voracek
D - Letang, Chara, Phaneuf, Boyle
Util - Eberle, Hossa, Pavelski, Iginla
G - Rask, Lehtonen

BENCH
Selanne, Backes, Elias, Doan, M. Foligno, Bogosian, Garrison, McDonagh, Gardiner, Faulk, Thomas, Bryzgalov

PROSPECT
Forsberg, Bjugstad, Eller, M. Backlund, Vatanen, R. Murphy, Lack

BACK-TO-BACK Defending Champion.

Hahaha fear boner...love The League references on here, so rare.

While the OLYs will always have more at stake, there's definitely something to be said for the raw energy and swings that happen so often at the WJC. I was 8 rows back in Buffalo last year, and watching Russia-Finland and Kuznetsov just destroy Finland in his brutal black Bauers was sick to watch.

Canada's shootout against Sweden? Not so sick to watch. Blechhhhh.

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C: Malkin, Plekanec
LW: Ovechkin, Semin
RW: St. Louis, Heatley
F: Simmonds, Landeskog
UTIL:
D: Green, Kulikov
G: Price, Markstrom
Bench:

Okay, true dat. Watching Kuznetsov go into F.U.C.K YOU mode against Finland was something special. You so rarely see a single player just completely dominate a game like that. It was like something out of an NBA game. I was pissing my pants watching but I didn't have a fear boner and that's the big difference here.

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