Red Wings Playoffs
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Detroit, which defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 on Wednesday, can lock up a berth and at least third place in the Atlantic Division with any kind of win at the Boston Bruins (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, TVA Sports, FS-D, NESNplus). The Red Wings, with 93 points, lead the Bruins by two. Each team will have one game remaining after Thursday.
Philadelphia remains even in points with Boston. Each has 91. The Flyers, who hold the second wild card into the playoffs from the Eastern Conference, have a game in hand on the Bruins, but Boston holds the non-shootout wins tiebreaker.
The Dallas Stars can clinch the Central Division and the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference with a win against the Colorado Avalanche in any fashion and a loss by the St. Louis Blues against the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Tampa Bay Lightning and Pittsburgh Penguins can clinch second place in their respective divisions and earn home-ice advantage for the Eastern Conference First Round. The Lightning need to defeat the New Jersey Devils in any fashion to clinch second in the Atlantic Division, and also can clinch if they earn a point and the Red Wings lose to the Bruins in any fashion, or if the Red Wings lose to the Bruins in regulation.
Following the 1926 Stanley Cup playoffs, during which the Western Hockey League was widely reported to be on the verge of folding, the NHL held a meeting on April 17 to consider applications for expansion franchises, at which it was reported that five different groups sought a team for Detroit. During a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor. Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the league’s players to the NHL and cease league operations. The new Detroit franchise purchased the players of the folded Victoria Cougars (Winner of the 1925 Stanley Cup) WHL club to play for the team. The new Detroit franchise also adopted the Cougars’ nickname in honor of the folded franchise.
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