Triple Canadian win

Ottawa and Vancouver look very good to advance to the next round. Each team eeked out a 2-1 win on road ice and both go home to try to clinch.

When you only have 3 of the 16 teams, it looks bad if you can't even get 2 into the next round.

The third team, Calgary, did survive, winning on home ice over Detroit. The CBC feed of this game was carried in the States on Versus. The impression given is that the West Coast games in this round are more likely to get a CBC feed.

I don't think Ottawa will be shown with the CBC feed for one simple reason: Sidney Crosby. If you don't know who Crosby is, you might not be paying any attention to hockey. Crosby plays for Pittsburgh, in his first playoff series, and not old enough to drink legally in the States.

The U.S. hockey media is obsessed with getting Crosby as much as ice time as they can. So we knew every game in the Ottawa series would be on Versus with no CBC feed, and not because it's Ottawa. The Senators will win this series and perhaps do really well. Soon the U.S. media might pick up on that fact.