Face-Off: news and Notes for May 5th

NHL Playoffs:
Conference Finals are set.
Yesterday's results:
Eastern Conference
Rangers 2 - Penguins 3 OT
Marian Hossa's OT goal puts second seeded Pens past Rangers in 5 games.
Pittsburgh will face Philadelphia (sixth seed) in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Western Conference
Sharks 1 - Stars 2 4OT
Brendan Morrow's goal nine minutes into the fourth overtime lifted fifth seeded Dallas Stars past the second seeded San Jose Sharks in five games. It was the eighth longest game in NHL history and the third longest in Stars' franchise history. Go fig.
Dallas will face the top seeded Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference final. Game 1 will be on Thursday in Detroit.

Full Conference Final schedule here:
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=362488

IIHF World Championship
Yesterday's Results:
USA 5
Slovenia 1
Phil Kessel's hat-trick powered the way for the US. Slovenia's lone goal was scored by (drum roll) LA King's young superstar Anze Kopitar.

Canada 7
Latvia 0
Canada's top line of Dany Heatley, Rick Nash, and Ryan Getzlaf are putting on a show for their Canadian fans putting up three goals and eight points between them. Pascal Leclaire made 30 stops for the shutout.

Russia 5
Czech Rep 4 OT
Alexei Morozov scored the OT winner for Russia who lost goalie Alexei Eremenko to a torn ACL.

Denmark 6
Italy 2
Not even Michele Strazzabosco could save italy from the Danes.

Today's games: Switzerland vs. Belarus, Finland vs. Norway, Sweden vs. France, Germany vs. Slovakia.