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Fantasy: Who to keep, who to drop for the playoffs
( "Sleepers, Keepers, Bench'em or Drop'em" is a weekly fantasy hockey column written by Darryl...

Penguins" Cooke heads into Bruins" den
Referees Bill McCreary and Stephen Walkom head the four-man crew charged with keeping the peace in the first game between Boston and Pittsburgh since Matt Cooke levelled Marc Savard.

Metropolit: Montreal"s unlikely power source
Glen Metropolit of the Montreal Canadiens has demonstrated this season that there is plenty of hockey life remaining in his 35-year-old, 5-foot-10, 190-pound frame.

Avalanche Team Report
The Avalanche will play four of its next five games on the road as it attempts to creep closer to securing a Western Conference playoff spot after missing the postseason twice in the last three years. Fatigue might have caught up to the club Wednesday, its second game in as many nights and third game in four days, as Colorado got off to a poor start in an eventual 3-2 home loss to the Calgary Flames. Even so, with 12 games left in the regular season the Avalanche has 86 points, seven more than the ninth-place Flames as teams begin the final push to gain one of the eight available playoff positions. "We have 12 games left and every game is huge," Avalanche forward Chris Durno said. The Avalanche opens a two-game road trip Sunday in Anaheim and plays in Los...

Bourque has 2 goals, Toskala makes 32 saves as Flames keep pace with a 3-2 win
The Calgary Flames needed a big win to give their playoff chances a boost.

Bourque scores twice to help Flames beat Avs
The NHL playoffs don't start until mid-April, but the desperate Calgary Flames decided to move up their postseason a month. It paid dividends against the Colorado Avalanche tickets. Rene Bourque scored two goals, Vesa Toskala made 32 saves and the Flames beat Colorado 3-2 on Wednesday night to keep pace in the Western Conference playoff race.