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The Pittsburgh Penguins closed out the New York Islanders in six games after Tomas Vokoun replaced Mac-Andre Fleury in net.

Vokoun has the hot hand, winning two games with a .957 save percentage. Fleury is the incumbent starter and a Stanley Cup winner.

Who gets the call for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night?

It’s Vokoun, according to the veteran netminder on Tuesday morning.

The NHL on Tuesday announced the finalists for the Bill Masterton Trophy, as center Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, goaltender Josh Harding of the Minnesota Wild and defenseman Adam McQuaid of the Boston Bruins are up for the award that is given “to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.”

The local chapters of the Professional Hockey Writers Association nominate 30 players for the award; the top three vote-getters were the finalists for the award.

This is the NHL’s "Lifetime Original Movie" award, given to the player who overcame the most horrific ailment (concussions, cancer, catastrophic injuries) or the most personal strife (Jose Theodore winning after the death of his son).

All three of this year’s nominees have varying degrees of heart-wrenching stories to tell.

That said, they could have just announced this year’s field is “Josh Harding and two other guys who didn’t have multiple sclerosis" and been done with it, because Josh Harding is going to win the Masterton.

The NHL is on NBC. “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” is on NBC. You know what that means? Comedic synergy!

Here’s the future host of “The Tonight Show” handing out some NHL Awards on his Monday night program. Unless it’s part of the bit, Jimmy’s flimsy grasp on the NHL stars’ names would seem to indicate he was prepped by Los Angeles TV sports anchors. Watch and giggle:

UPDATE: NBC keeps removing videos from YouTube and Hulu, so fast forward to the 6:50 mark of this full episode to see the bit

A few things …

• Tuukka Rask as the love child of David Letterman and Dexter is pretty hilarious, and much more accurate than our “Jonathan Toews after hot with a waffle iron" take.

• The Kopitar/Frankenberry connection has been made for years by cereal consuming puckheads.

• Ryan Button’s inclusion really, really pushed the boundaries of this being “NHL" superlatives.

• Someone doesn't like his superlative:

. @jimmyfallon count chocula? That cuts deep Jimmy......

—Strombone (@strombone1) May 14, 2013

• The subtle twisting of Robyn Regehr into “Robin Big-Ear” was the stuff of classic middle school trolling, sir.

• The lack of Greg Zanon in this bit makes us believe that Jimmy’s writers didn’t get down to ‘Z’. Or that like the rest of the Northwest Division, they didn’t care about the Colorado Avalanche, either.

All that said: It’s great to have the NHL as comedic fodder on Jimmy’s show. Hopefully one day we’ll get Don Cherry slow-jamming the news or, at the very least, have the chance to see the 2013 Conn Smythe winner battle him in beer pong. And by that we mean Patrick Kane.

APOn Monday night, thousands who gathered in Maple Leaf Square thought the Toronto Maple Leafs had Game 7 in the bag. That was until the Boston Bruins became the first team in NHL history to win a Game 7 after trailing by at least three goals in the third period. "Stunned" doesn't do it justice.

Ecstasy quickly became agony, and YouTuber ‘Averagegamercabby’ captured it brilliantly on video during the game. Here’s how the crowd reacted to Patrice Bergeron’s tying goal at 19:09 of the third (around the 4:50 mark):

Here’s the stunned reaction from the crowd when Bergeron won the game at 6:05 of overtime; watch its hasty departure as well (goal is around the 2:50 mark):

Now, do yourself a favor and read Bruce Arthur’s incredible column on Game 7, which is twice as emotional as any moving image you just watched here.

After a regular season that saw him regain his MVP form, Alex Ovechkin had a frustrating postseason as the Washington Capitals lost in seven games to the New York Rangers.

He pumped 30 shots on Henrik Lundqvist, scoring just one goal, a power-play tally back in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal. For the fourth time in his career, Ovechkin’s Capitals lost in a Game 7 on home ice. The captain has yet to reach the conference finals – and this is eighth NHL season.

Like we said: Ovechkin is frustrated. And that frustration manifested itself in a petulant postgame comment about the officiating in the series, which saw the Rangers win Game 6 without the Capitals receiving a single power play.

Via Slava Malamud of Sport-Express (in a Russian-language interview), Ovechkin said after Game 7:

“The refereeing... You understand it yourself. How can there be no penalties at all (on one team) during the playoffs?

“I am not saying there was a phone call from (the league), but someone just wanted Game 7. For the ratings. You know, the lockout, escrow, the League needs to make profit... I don't know whether the refs were predisposed against us or the League. But to not give obvious penalties (against the Capitals), while for us any little thing was immediately penalized...”

Thus continues Ovechkn’s escrow obsession …

You can’t blame Ovechkin for being frustrated, what with the power play being the Capitals’ meal ticket and the officials canceling that ticket when they don’t whistle the Rangers for any penalties. (Washington had two power plays in Game 7, as did the Rangers.)

But remember when John Tortorella was fined $30,000 for suggesting that the refs “wanted” overtime in the Winter Classic after conspiring with NBC?

GettySince joining the Washington Capitals, Alex Ovechkin has played in five Game 7s on home ice. The Capitals have now lost four of them, as the New York Rangers demolished Washington at Verizon Center on Monday night, 5-0, to advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals and eliminate the Capitals.

It was the second straight postseason in which the Rangers dropped the Capitals in a Game 7, winning at MSG last year in Dale Hunter’s final game as coach.

New York advances to face the Boston Bruins in the semifinals, who won their own Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night in overtime.

“I think it was probably our best game of the series. Henrik [Lundqvist] was really good early to give us a chance and then I thought we played really well in front of him, right on through our lineup," said Coach John Tortorella. "I didn’t think it was going to be a 5-0 win, the way this series has gone, but it was our best game of the series."

It was the most dominating effort by the Rangers in the series, and by far their best effort in Washington offensively – New York had scored two goals in three games in D.C. before the scoring explosion in Game 7.

Where that scoring came from is as surprising as any facet of the Rangers’ win.

It's Game 7 madness!

The Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Boston Bruins in the final game of this Kessel-powered, Seguin-less series. Then the New York Rangers visit the Washington Capitals for what might be yet another Caps' Game 7 heartbreak on home ice ... or the start of something special for Alex Ovechkin and the boys.

Please join your friends at Puck Daddy for our Game 7's chat beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. You bring the funny; we bring the abrupt changes in tone and Hamburger Women. That's how it works.