Craig Smith Fined $5K (coyotes)

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Craig Smith Fined $5K

By GARTH'S CORNER

Mar 22, 2015 • 6:39 pm

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Per the Erie Otters, here are their playoff ticket prices.

(first price – advance purchase; second price – game day purchase)

Playoff round Ticket Premium — Reserved

First round  Adult $20 / $24 — $18 / $22 Seniors $18 / $22 — $16 / $20 Students $14 / $14 — $14 / $14

Second round  Adults $22 / $26 — $20 / $24 Seniors $20 / $24 — $18 / $22 Students $16 / $16 — $16 / $16

Third round  Adults $24 / $28 — $22 / $26 Seniors $22 / $26 — $20 / $24 Students $18 / $18 — $18 / $18 OHL finals Adults $27 / $31 — $25 / $29 Seniors $25 / $29 — $23 / $27 Students $21 / $21 — $21 / $21

To my eyes, these are fair prices. Paying less than $30 per game to watch McDavid, Strome, Baptiste and the Otters is a deal.

However, some Otters fans will beg to differ.

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Darcy Regier's fingerprints and DNA are smeared all over the tank battle that is being waged right now between the Buffalo Sabres and Arizona Coyotes. Regier was fired by Buffalo in Novembver 2013 after serving as their GM for 16 seasons. He is now the assistant general manager of teh Coyotes.

Regier is the king of pain and suffering. He's the architect of the present Buffalo and Arizona rebuilding projects.

The Sabres are 30th in the NHL standings., The Desert Dogs are now 29th in the McEichel race seeding.

More on Regier in the days to come. Much more.

Tonight, the Dogs host the Canucks.

Advantage: Vancouver

The Coyotes will visit Buffalo on Thursday night in a huge 4 point game. Both teams will play again in #Regierizona on Monday March 30.

The final ten games of the regular season are going to be filled with tasty subplots and will be as helter skelter and scary as an Alfred Hitchcock horror thriller.

Here's now I see the Coyotes and Sabres finishing the final ten games of the regular season.

Arizona Coyotes have 10 games remaining:

Tonight vs. Canucks (loss) 3/24 @ Red Wings (loss) 3/26 @ Sabres (win) 3/28 @ Penguins (loss) 3/30 host Sabres (win) 4/3 @ San Jose (win) 4/4 host Sharks (loss) 4/7 @ Flames (loss) 4/9 @ Canucks (loss) 4/11 host Ducks (loss)

I believe that the Coyotes have what it takes to win 6 of the next 20 points that are available to them. I see four of the points coming in two wins over Buffalo. If my plan comes to fruition, the Dogs will finish the regular season with 56 points.

Buffalo Sabres have 10 games remaining:

3/23 @ Stars (loss) 3/26 host Dogs (loss) 3/28 @ Avalanche (loss) 3/30 @ Dogs (loss) 4/1 host Leafs (win) 4/3 host Blackhawks (loss) 4/4 @ NY Islanders (loss) 4/6 host Hurricanes (win) 4/10 @ Blue Jax (loss) 4/11 host Penguins (loss)

I believe that the Sabres have what it takes to win 4 of the next 20 points that are available to them. Buffalo. If my plan comes to fruition, the Sabres will finish the regular season with 51 points.

The Sabres will finish 30th overall and will earn the pole position for the McEichel race. They will have a 20% chance of winning the McDavid lottery. If that fails, they will select Jack Eichel second overall.

Don Maloney and Darcy Regier began their nose dive to the basement of the standings in February. Try as they might, they haven 't gotten to the 30-hole yet. Why? Tim Murray will not allow the Dogs to dive to the bottom of the standings. That's why I feel confident that the Sabres will remain in 30th place after the season closing 10 game segment. Maloney and Regier have already shown their cards to Murray. Has Murray shown his hand yet? I think not. Murray has some aces still left up his sleeve. He's kept them there strategically.

I get the impression that Murray and Ted Nolan are on the same page in terms of points differential and the standings. I'm confident that as we head down the home stretch that Nolan's team will continue to lose properly.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in OT on Saturday night when Ryan Nugent Hopkins beat Ray Emery.

The Oilers appear to have divorced themselves from the race for McEichel.

Its now down to the Buffalo Sabres and Arizona Coyotes to slug it out for the 30th overall seeding in the NHL standings. The Coyotes will visit Buffalo on Thursday night for head to head tank warfare. The two teams will meet again next Monday in the desert.

Taylor Hall made his triumphant return to the Edmonton Oilers lineup against Philly.

Kiss Edmonton's tanking blues away!

Tanks but no tanks.

The Oilers have nothing left to play for other than their McEichel standings.

So, why risk losing ground to Arizona and Buffalo, who play head to head on 3/26 in Buffalo and again on 3/30 in Arizona? Could it be that the Oilers are focusing their laser pointer on U.S. born D-man Noah Hanifin and the third overall pick in the 2015 NHL Draft?

Hall has missed 23 of the last 24 games with an ankle injury, and yet he still is the #3 scorer for the Oilers with 11 goals and 19 assists for 30 points

He skated today on the third line with Anton Lander Lander as his center and Andrew Miller as his winger.

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The top-seeded Boston University men's ice hockey team claimed its eighth Hockey East championship with a 5-3 victory over UMass Lowell on Saturday night at TD Garden.

The Terriers never trailed en route to earning an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament. BU will enter the field of 16 with a 25-7-5 record while UMass Lowell finished its season with a 21-12-6 mark.

This is the Terriers' first Lamoriello Trophy since 2009, when they beat the Riverhawks, 1-0. BU will likely be a top seed in the NCAA tournament which begins next weekend.

Freshman Hobey Baker Award finalist Jack Eichel scored two more goals and added an assist. Not surprisingly, he was named Tournament MVP.

Eichel's third point of the game was his 66th of the season, which is the new single-season Terriers scoring record for points by a freshman. Eichel passed former Team USA legend Dave Silk on the all time freshman scoring record.

Eichel was also named to the All-Tournament Team, joining juniors Matt Grzelcyk and Matt O'Connor as unanimous selections. Senior Evan Rodrigues also earned an all-tournament nod.

Thanks, NBCSN

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