Mind's a Messin': Redwing77's Psychology Musings

Watching the Playoffs this year, listening to friends talk about the aftermath of games, and reading content got me thinking: We talk about the intangibles of hockey but what about the psychology?

The Finals this year reminds me a LOT of the Blackhawks vs. Canucks tilt from last year's playoffs.

Let me take you back... Then Hawk Dustin Byfuglien (IMO one of the most underrated players in the NHL) quite literally and almost single-handedly obliterated the Canucks game plan on multiple nights by simply getting them so enraged that their game plan was to basically head hunt Byfuglien (without actually hitting him in the head). This took the Canucks so off kilter that the Hawks won the game.

Right now, right or wrong/good or bad, the Canucks are doing the same thing to the Bruins. True, statistically the series still has been pretty even. True, the gripes about the Canucks methods of doing so have been merited. However, the job of the Bruins isn't to point out the cheap play of certain players. It isn't their job to go after the players either. It's their job to look at their opponents tendencies and make a game plan that expects those tendencies that still affords the Bruins the opportunity to win.

Coming into the Finals, the Bruins should have already known the following things:

1. The Canucks are a fast, great skating team
2. The Canucks are solid fundamentally
3. The Luongo of old has only temporarily shown up, but never for long enough to kill his team's chances.
4. The Canucks have been diving and getting away with it all Playoffs long
5. The Canucks aren't afraid of taking pages out of the Penguins and Blackhawks books. Penguins book- cheap hits, borderline on ice tactics. Hawks book - Aggravation, instigation, and getting under the skin of their opposition
6. They are a momentum team. The only way to beat them is to get them to lose their momentum.
7. They are a balanced team with pressure on them but only at the top. The media is swooning over the Sedins but that takes the spotlight off of players like Bieksa and so on.

Look, I'm no fan of Burrows or Bieksa, but you have to acknowledge that they've had a pretty good playoff run. I'd argue they've been more effective than the Sedins.

The flaw that the Bruin's face is that they are relying too heavily on Tim Thomas and Zdeno Chara to bail them out when the likes of Burrows and Bieksa get under their skin. And that's not working. The Bruins aren't out of it yet, but if they lose one game in Boston, they will be.

Game 3 and 4 are must wins for the B's if they expect to win. With 3 wins under the Canucks' belt, winning 1 of the next 4 should be almost a sure thing.

I'm looking at Dennis Seidenberg, Patrice Bergeron, and either Michael Ryder or Rich Peverley to step up. Tyler Seguin is a rookie and, though immensely talented, relying upon him would be a recipe for disaster.

I still have the Bruins in 7 but Game 3 will tell a lot about the possibility of there even being a Game 7.

Tin foil hats are coming out in Vancouver!!! More whining about the officials…

If you haven’t seen this article you might want to take a look at it, it’s worth a look due to it’s ridiculous nature. All season long Boston Bruins fans have heard fans from fans of other NHL teams whining about how the Boston Bruins have gotten all of the breaks hen it comes to disciplinary rulings because Greg Campbell son of Colin Campbell plays or the Boston Bruins.

Tony Gallagher; The Providence --- We're going to ask this question now, once and for all and then try to hold our peace until the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs. We can't say forever hold our peace, but for a while at least.

Straight up, can the Vancouver Canucks get a fair shake with the officiating in the final? Consider Gregory Campbell plays for the Boston Bruins and his father Colin Campbell is senior vice-president in charge of hockey operations for the NHL. What father doesn't want to have his son's name on the Stanley Cup? And of course what is so stunning about this is that the NHL fails to perceive any conflict of interest whatsoever, even though there is no shortage of lawyers running about the head offices in New York. At least that's the NHL claim.

During the season the biggest problems arose on supplementary discipline, but that's not the consideration here. After all, you only get a one-game suspension for any transgression during the playoffs, and in most cases there are no suspensions whatsoever. You'd have to punch a fan in the face repeatedly to get two or more, so barring some strange circumstances this is not the issue.

If Raffi Torres ran over Patrice Bergeron, for example, Campbell would not make a decision on supplementary discipline because the Bruins are involved. Instead, his best friend Mike Murphy with whom he works every day would make the decision, if that makes you feel any better. Of course, that's a total joke in it's own right as well, but it's not likely to be an issue.

The problem is the on-ice officials. They are appointed by a department for which Campbell has responsibility and the entire progress of their careers is totally controlled by these people. They decide when the officials work, how much they work and as such how much they get paid.

For each round in the playoffs a referee works, he gets an extra $18,000 over and above his yearly salary. For a linesman it's $12,000. So if you please the powers that be, you work lots. If you don't please them for whatever reason, you don't get to work in the playoffs. The officials working the final are the guys the league thinks are the best and as we've seen from the exchange of leaked memos a while back, Campbell can often be involved in those discussions.

And make no mistake, we're not talking about any communication between these respective parties at any time. There's no conspiracy. The officials know what their bosses need and know how to please them.

Now any official who happens to displease the powers for whatever reason—serious mistakes we'd like to believe—could find himself not working the final all of a sudden (although that wouldn't affect his pay this year) and his employment considerations for the future would be open to question. Maybe he gets no playoff work the following year. Maybe it could be so serious that his contract might be re-considered in the future. The bottom line is these guys in the hockey operations department—of which one is the father of one of the games' participants-- control every aspect of an official's employment.

No, no conflict of interest here.

First off; this past season Mike Murphy has dealt with the Boston Bruins during their supplemental discipline hearings because Greg Campbell is the son of Colin Campbell and he plays for the Boston Bruins. Personally, I think this is just more of the Vancouver Canucks fans, media and their front office staff trying to get the upper hand on the Boston Bruins. The comments to this article are equally interesting as well… EDIT: It’s being reported that Colin Campbell is resigning as NHL disciplinarian and being replaced by Brendan Shanahan.

Related articles

• Colin Campbell to step down as NHL disciplinarian: report (thestar.com)
• Report: Colin Campbell out as NHL disciplinarian (aol.sportingnews.com)
• Campbell ends role as disciplinarian after 13 seasons (aol.sportingnews.com)
• Report: Colin Campbell to step down as league disciplinarian, Brendan Shanahan to replace him (prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com)
• Colin Campbell resigns as NHL's chief disciplinarian (theglobeandmail.com)

Putting the wraps on the NHL season. Hawks Win, Hawks Win!!!

Another season of NHL hockey is in the books as the Chicago Blackhawks are the 2010 Stanley Cup Champions. At the beginning of the season I thought that Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks would be playing for Lord Stanley's Cup in the finals, I was half right.

Historic Choke Job

Instead of the Flyers it could have been the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals if they had not had their "historic choke job" as the Boston Bruins managed to blow a three 3-0 series lead and then finally a 3-0 game 7 lead. The Bruins finished the choke job off as they lost to the Flyers on a power play goal for too many men on the ice.

Ironic ending; maybe? With the Blackhawks finally winning their first Stanley Cup since 1961 and ending their run of futility, the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs are on long streaks of futility of their own.

So with the Blackhawks winning their first cup since 1961, there are two other original six teams that you would think would be due. The Boston Bruins have not won the cup since 1972 and the Toronto Maple Leafs last won it in 1967. Although the Flyers are not an original six team, the Philadelphia Flyers last won the Stanley Cup in 1974-1975. Ironically the year before the Flyers won their last Stanley Cup the Boston Bruins lost to the Flyers in the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals. [Complete List of Stanley Cup Winners Through History]

The improbable became reality

Who would have ever thought that the Philadelphia Flyers needed a shoot out to make the Stanley Cup playoffs by beating Marian Gaborik and the New York Rangers on April 11th 2010 2-1? One could say that the rest of the story is history or it’s historic. Depending how you look at it.

If that didn't sink in, think about it this way; you had a team that fired their head coach earlier in the season, barely got into the playoffs, they qualified on the last day of the season by winning their final game on a shootout (or by gimmick if you don’t like the shootout) and almost go on to win the Stanley Cup. That is one hell of a story line.

Stanley Cup Finals has many story lines

I have to admit that this was one of the more exciting Stanley Cup finals that I can remember for some time. There are many story lines to this season’s Stanley Cup final; Marian Hossa after going 0-2 in the Stanley Cup and playing in the last three Stanley Cup finals finally got a chance to lift Lord Stanley’s Cup above his head. The radio voice of the UMD Bulldogs Bruce Ciske called it last night on twitter as he predicted that Toews would hand the cup to Marian Hossa.

Who will Toews hand the Cup to? I say Hossa.

Wait a minute was that a goal?

The ending of Cup clinching game six was kind of anti climatic. I was watching the game, Kane shoots, no red light and the next thing you see is the Blackhawks forward ripping his helmet and gloves off and celebrating. I turned to my buddy and said, “did that go in?”

“It was kind of an awkward celebration, we were all standing around waiting for the official call,” said Hawks captain Jonathan Toews, the playoffs' leading scorer, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy. “But I don't think Patty would have thrown his gloves off like that if it hadn't gone in. He sold it pretty good, anyway.”

“I haven't seen it yet. I didn't see the goal. I saw one of their players take off across the ice like he'd won something, and I got a little [sick feeling] in the pit of my stomach,” said Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette, who stuck with Leighton until the bitter end – and bitter it was for the Flyers, who had tied it up and forced overtime with just under four minutes left in regulation. [Read the rest of the story]

Games were close

Except for two games (games 4 and 5) this was a close series four of the six games being one goal games.

Game 1 - Chicago 6 - Philadelphia 5
Game 2 - Chicago 2 - Philadelphia 1
Game 3 - Philadelphia 4 - Chicago 3
Game 4 - Philadelphia 5 - Chicago 3
Game 5 - Chicago 7, Philadelphia 4
Game 6 - Chicago 4, Philadelphia 3

Jonathan Toews had an amazing season/year…

Here is the list of former Fighting Sioux forward Jonathan Toews accomplishments just for just this season. Can you say, "nothing short of amazing."

1) Olympic Gold Medal
2) Olympic Allstar Team
3) Conn Smythe
4) Stanley Cup

Here is some of Jonathan Toew's career accomplishments

1)2005 World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2)WJC Title (X2)
3)WCHA title (Broadmoor Cup)
4)World Championship Gold (Moscow 2007)
5)World Championship Silver (Halifax Canada 2008)
6)Olympic Gold Medal
7)Stanley Cup Title
8)Conn Smythe Trophy 2010

Stanley Cup Links

Team Toews corrals Cup Hawks' captain gets the Smythe after Kane nets the OT decider [Winnipeg Free Press]

St. Vital's favourite son awed and overjoyed at dream fulfilled [Winnipeg Free Press]

Cup tops a big year for Toews [Winnipeg Sun]

Kane ends NHL's longest Cup drought [Winnipeg Sun]

Blackhawks fans can finally rejoice [Ottawa Citizen]

Kane is able to end Chicago’s long Cup drought [Ottawa Citizen]

Hawks beat Flyers to win Stanley Cup [Chicago Tribune]

Blackhawks land in Chicago with Stanley Cup [Chicago Tribune]

Chicago captures the Cup [Boston Globe]

Blackhawks win Stanley Cup [The Globe and Mail]

Toews takes Conn Smythe trophy [The Globe and Mail]

Three times a charm for Hossa [The Globe and Mail]

Blackhawks beat Flyers in overtime, win first Stanley Cup title since 1961 [Post Gazette]

Rich Hofmann: The Flyers' effort was never in question [philly.com]

Phil Sheridan: Chicago's title was hard-earned [philly.com]

Random thoughts on Chicago Blackhawks' Stanley Cup, Toews: "I'm speechless" [Russo's Rants]

Stanley Cup victory 'surreal' [CBC]

Chicago Blackhawks Win The Stanley Cup [Kuklas Korner]

Elusive Cup blows into Windy City [Calgary Herald]

Chicago Blackhawks take first Stanley Cup in 49 years, beating Flyers 4-3 in OT [Vancouver Sun]

SAY HEY! HAWKS WIN! TOEWS MVP

First off,

Congrats to the Chicago Blackhawks and their fans. I admit I'm not a true enough Red Wing fan because (or so I'm told) no self-respecting Red Wing fan would ever root for the Hawks to win anything.

Well, I rooted for them and they won. And they won in my original prediction of 6 games. Unfortunately, I took the two losses in Philly too literally so I don't get any credit for getting the prediction right.

Some random notes:

-- BIG KUDOS to rightful Conn Smythe winner Jonathon Toews. He was the best skater in the playoffs. He was huge. The thing is, it wasn't so much his offense that made him such a good choice. Toews was consistently the best player in the faceoff circle all playoffs long. He was also incredible in how defensively responsible he was. It's exciting to know that he's already 22 years old and has pretty much done it all. Now, though I doubt he can relax, he can focus on putting up Hall of Fame numbers and doing so while bringing Chicago back for more Stanley Cups.

-- BIG KUDOS to Philadelphia fans. First, they could have beat the traffic by getting out of dodge as soon as they learned the goal counted but they didn't. Instead, they chanted "Let's Go Flyers." WOW. Being a Sioux fan, when's the last time the Sioux lost a hard fought playoff game and the Sioux fans responded by chanting "Let's go Sioux?" Never. Some message boards are too busy cutting the Sioux and the coaches to shreds to care what the players put forth in effort on the ice. ALSO kudos to the Flyer fans for BOOING EVERY TIME GARY BETTMAN SPOKE INTO THE MICROPHONE. Other fan bases may jeer at Flyer fans and call them knuckle draggers or dim bulbs but they know stupid when they see it and they're not afraid to show it.

-- Whatta ya know. The Ubersieve Christobal Huet gets his name on the Cup. Good thing too because that's the only way he'd ever accomplish it.

-- It was nice to see Hossa hoist the Cup second. Everyone knows of the Hossa curse. Well, it's now put to rest. Unfortunately, I would've liked that to have been done the year before with Detroit but alas..

-- I wonder how Martin Havlat feels right now?

-- I agree with the NBC commentators that Ville Leino should get consideration for the rookie of the year for the playoffs... if such an award exists.

-- It was an amazing run for everyone on both teams. Philly wasn't supposed to make it past the first round. Chicago hadn't done it since the greats of Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, and Glen Hall skated at Chicago Stadium. Even Jeremy "The Lips" Roenick was all choked up. I guess that's why I loved this series so much. The massive underdog that shouldn't have even been there vs. the young upstarts.

-- Bettman cries again. We all know he'd've loved to call Pronger's name for the Conn Smuthe... and I was half expecting him to do so.

-- Speaking of Pronger, I don't have any negative thoughts towards him right now. Yeah, probably because he didn't win the Cup, but still...

On to the draft.

Stayin' Alive (RW77)

Why is simply winning Game 5, when both teams are NOT facing elimination called "Stayin' Alive?"

Well, folks, the Flyers (love em or hate em) have never NOT been out of the game. Legal or otherwise, they've largely stayed out of the box and made the least number of mistakes after Game 1. Like I said before, both teams sucked in Game 1 (at least defensively and goaltending). The Flyers enter tonight having beaten Chicago in two straight games.

Chicago has looked like Vancouver in Game what.... 2 or 3 where they simply spent the whole game going after Byfuglien? It seems so long ago that the Vancouver series happened. June hockey? What the... Will the draft be preempted by Game 7? Anyways....

I say Stayin' Alive because I truly felt that (after my prediction looked unlikely to come to fruition) whoever wins Game 5 wins the Cup. Philly can't win in Chicago. Chicago can't win in Philly. So... I now have Chicago winning in 7... only because Game 7 will be played in Chicago.

Tonight Chicago chased Leighton and dropped 7 goals on the Flyers... and throughout the game I thought that the scoring wasn't going to end at 1..2..3..4.. and the Hawks outlasted the Flyers in this one. Why? The Hawks weren't really dominant for all 60 minutes. They were at times, but not the entire game and things really could have gone the other way several times.

Here's a few things I noticed:

First, Hartnell's goal. Where was the Hawk's teamwork? Niemi CLEARLY didn't know where the puck was. Hawks defenseman (Seabrook?) was trailing Hartnell in for the kill COULD have yelled to Niemi that the puck was loose and a simple right pad kick out and no goal.

Second, Pronger was nullified for the most part. He even got called for his second penalty of the series. That being said, when he was off the ice on the PP, the Hawks had their best PP effort of the series, imo. Kindof makes me think that, if the Flyers win the Cup, we'll have to swallow the pill that states Pronger as the Playoff MVP.

Third, Byfuglien finally had a good game in this series. 2 goals and 2 assists tonight. He also knocked Pronger around. Points for Byfuglien taking out a ref with one of those big hits.

Fourth, I saw a lot of cross checking players away from the puck. Flyer players (Timmonen on Hossa and Pronger on someone else I can't recall) knocked over Hawks players by cross checking them in the back as the puck flew by. The puck wasn't being played by either player being knocked down. I admit that the puck was somewhat close by but not in contact by the players. Isn't that interference or cross checking penalty? I don't know.

Chicago has 2 shots at winning the Cup. Philly now is win or go home. Feel good Hawks fans? I don't know. The last time Philly faced that was...I dunno.... against Montreal? Against Boston? The point is: Philly's not in unknown territory. Chicago is. Chicago hasn't won it all since 1961 (This still makes them more successful than the Cubs even if they don't win it all).

This has turned into a great series overall, though. Controversy, up and down hockey, tight games, blowouts, you've got it all.

Chris Pronger owning the Hawks

There has been a lot of talk about Flyers Defenseman Chris Pronger during this season's Stanley Cup playoffs. Some of the comments I have read is that Pronger is a douche bag, thug or a major league hack or insert ______ your favorite description of Chris Pronger here.

Personally, while I think the officiating has been brutal at best in the Stanley Cup playoffs, I don’t think Chris Pronger is a hack. I also don't think Chris Pronger is a dirty player, he is a tough, hard nosed player. Like someone said in another post, however, while I don't like Pronger personally especially after the Bruins lost to his team as well, most of us would've probably love to have him on our team. Pronger is not a player from the Daniel "the Hack" Carcillo mold.

Sure! Chris Pronger has been suspended a couple of times by the NHL for questionable play. Physically, Chris Pronger is a mountain of a man, he is 6"6" tall weighing in at 220 pounds and he has been very effective in this series taking the Blackhawks off of their game. Also, I have seen Pronger using his stick on the Blackhawks players but I lay the blame at the officials for that one.

If anything Chris Pronger is in the Blackhawk player’s head and he is causing them to take stupid penalties and knock them off their game. That’s NHL hockey folks and Chris Pronger and the Flyers are exploiting the young Blackhawks players almost to perfection. I can't fault them for that. You play with what the refs give you.

Being matched with Matt Carle against the line of Jonathan Toews, Dustin Byfuglien, and Patrick Kane has been the Flyers trump card in their two wins. Pronger was +4 last night, while Patrick Kane was -4, this despite a furious third-period comeback where visions of John Stevens danced in our heads. That line has been completely shut down, while the forward line matched against them has tore them apart. Ville Leino has done nothing but score huge goals for this team, and has even prompted a “#Villedelphia” tag on Twitter. Toews has been unable to get into the middle consistently, Byfuglien started being moved about the lineup (although I don’t think his two-minute shift was part of Joel Quennville’s plan), and Patrick Kane, well, -4 speaks for itself.

The point is that the Blackhawks have been more worried about that Chris Pronger is doing to them as opposed to what they’re doing to Chris Pronger. Sure, Pronger has gotten away with some marginable, if not questionable, stick-tactics in this series. But that’s going both ways. Look at what is and is not being called. Anyone who watches hockey on a regular basis knows that as the playoffs go on, the rules usually change. I’ve been watching hockey since I was 10 years old, and this might be the first time that over the course of a series, the Flyers have made the officiating and advantage for them. They know what they can get away with, and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s going both ways. It’s not Chris Pronger’s fault that the Blackhawks allow themselves to go over the edge. Last night, the Blackhawks took three offensive zone penalties, none of them being goaltender interference. That’s something that has to absolutely drive Quennville up a tree. And now the media focus is off of Chris Pronger messing with Ben Eager, it’s Chris Pronger shutting down Chicago’s top line. Right now, they know what’s coming, and they must feel like there’s nothing they can do about it. [Read the story here]

Here is what I do if I was the Blackhawks coach, I tell the players to stop taking moronic penalties and play their game, and tell them not to get distracted or involved in stupid selfish after the whistle stuff with the Flyers. Take the body, hit their top players. See if you can catch Richards or Carter with some big hits.

Hawks vs. Hacks Post Game 3 Musings

I must chime in on this series so far because it's been surprisingly good thus far. A little excitement and controversy and up and down play abound.

Game One:

I didn't get to watch all of this game but my impressions were simply this: Gary Bettman loved this game. All offense and no defense. Bettman's flawed philosophy is that there is no such thing as an exciting 1-0 game but there's no stop to excitement if the teams score 2 touchdowns and a field goal between the two teams. Well, they provided in this one.

The Hawks prevailed but I thought barely. Hold onto that statement.

Game Two:

This game was much tighter defensively and a lot better called... if you are a Flyers fan. The Flyers got away with a lot more than the Hawks did, and yet the Hawks still prevailed.

NHL On the Fly gave the star of the game to Antti Niemi but I disagree completely. I think I'd go with Eager. Yeah, he has his hack side of things, but he scored the game winner. Why I didn't pick Niemi for this? Because though he made the saves he had to make, the Team D in front of him took away most of it. The Hawks held a clinic on blocking shots that night.

The Hawks prevailed but I thought barely. Catch the theme?

On to Game 3 and Philadelphia.

First off, the "Orange out" or whatever was a great touch. I thought the Flyer fans were really into the game. That's about as positive I can put the Flyer fanbase. After all, they are the fans that had one among them that damaged a journalist's car...FOR NO REASON AT ALL OTHER THAN HE DID NOT COVER THE FLYERS. Unfortunately, the journalist had too much FRENCH in his Canadian blood and decided not to press charges. I wonder if that yellow streak on the North bound interstate out of Philly was from that guy?

Anyways, it was an up and down game where defense took a dump on both sides of the rink.... around the time the other team scores. Philly scores, then Philly D takes a dump and the Hawks score. Then vice versa. Even Brent "Holy Crap I scored?!?" Sopel scored.

The Flyers prevailed this time. Again, though, barely. The theme continues.

Controversy

The big controversy is the play of Chris Pronger and the seemingly lack of cohones for the officials to call penalties on the Flyers.

I'm not sure. The Flyers definitely have gotten away with their share. Like the video stated earlier.... isn't when a player goes for the body check on a player who is not in the act of playing the puck called interference? Anyways...

People are calling Pronger a hack, but I'm not so sure. I don't like Pronger. I think he has a tendency to make cheap-ish hits and test the boundaries of good taste (see the puck incident as an example) but I'm not convinced he's a worthless hack. Here's a few reasons why:

1. Without the cheap stuff, he's a competent defenseman. Unlike other hacks in this category, without the physical cheap crap, Pronger actually can play and contribute otherwise. Carcillo, Cooke, etc. can't.

2. He doesn't go out there to try to injur...I mean "make his presence known." Carcillo and Cooke do that.

3. He doesn't have a rule named after him...at least not yet. Ask Matt Cooke or Sean Avery about this one.

4. He doesn't really dive.

Anyways, where does this series go?

Well, I figured the Flyers would win at least one home game and that happened tonight. The question is: Can the Hawks win in Philly?

They were never out of this game so I think they can, but will they is entirely a different story. Neither team has been all that dominant this series and I don't see that changing.

I predicted that the Hawks will win in 6 games but if Philly wins Game 4, then it could go seven. The key is obviously Philadelphia. I feel like John Madden when I say this but... if the Hawks can't win at least one in Philly, they'll be in deep trouble.

As a side note and Red Wings fan: I can't imagine Stevie Y on the podium at the NHL draft... FOR TAMPA BAY. Congrats to him for sure, but... it feels weird.

Here goes nothing.

This is it, the series of the NHL hockey season till October. My prediction for the Stanley Cup Finals is Penguins in 6 games. Not that it matters since I picked none of the series right in the third round. I believe the injuries will finally derail the Redwings, as as one of their big time players Pavel Datsyuk is out with a a foot injury. Also, the Redwings will be without veteran center Chris Draper who is out with a groin injury.

I also think the play of Pens super star Evgeni Malkin has been Hart Trophy like scoring (6-3-9) in the Eastern Conference finals.

Schedule for the Finals.

Here is the schedule for the 2009 STANLEY CUP FINAL.


SERIES Redwings #2 vs. Penguins #4 Network
Saturday, May 30 at Detroit, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
Sunday, May 31 at Detroit, TBD-Night NBC, CBC, RDS
Tuesday, June 2 at Pittsburgh, 8:00 pm VERSUS, CBC, RDS
Thursday, June 4 at Pittsburgh, 8:00 pm VERSUS, CBC, RDS
* Saturday, June 6 at Detroit, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
* Tuesday, June 9 at Pittsburgh, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
* Friday, June 12 at Detroit, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS