With the championship trophies in the buildings for all three games on Friday, Buzzing The Net will host a very special episode of the Chatravaganza on Friday at 7 p.m. ET/8 p.m./4 p.m. PT.

Please join Cam Charron, Terry Doyle, Sunaya Sapurji, Neate Sager and a cast of many at 7 ET, when Game 5 of the Barrie Colts-London Knights OHL final series begins on Sportsnet One. The Colts have the Knights in an unexpected 3-1 series deficit. To the east, the Halifax Mooseheads have their first opportunity to close out the Baie-Comeau Drakkar and bring Nova Scotia its first President's Cup title. Out west, the Portland Winterhawks also have a chance to wrap it up on home ice against the Edmonton Oil Kings.

See you tonight. Bring your own peanuts.

Vince Trocheck was a runaway winner of the OHL's outstanding player award (Rena Laverty, Plymouth Whalers)

In a season where junior hockey operators faced unique circumstances due to the lockout-delayed NHL season, perhaps it's fitting the OHL's top performer is Vince Trocheck, who had to change on fly midway through the year.

Cats have nine lives; the Florida Panthers centre-ice prospect led three during his player-of-the-year campaign. Veteran leading the young Saginaw Spirit by example in the first half of the season. Energy guy for gold-medal-winning Team USA at the world junior championship in far-flung Ufa, Russia over the New Year. Last but not least, offensive catalyst for the Plymouth Whalers while making a successful push to lead the Ontario league in both points (109) and plus-minus rating (+49) while leading Plymouth to the West Division title. That made the case for the 19-year-old centre to be a landslide winner in media balloting for the OHL's Red Tilson Trophy as the league's outstanding player. It is the second year in a row the honour has gone to a Florida prospect from the Pittsburgh region. London Knights goalie Michael Houser won in 2012.

"It's been hectic, it was a long season," said Trocheck on Thursday. "Starting off in Saginaw with the group of guys I've been with for three years. Going to world juniors in Russia and being able to have that experience, just being able to be on that team was a honour. To win a gold medal was an unbelievable experience helped me develop a lot. And then getting traded to Plymouth and having a new team for the first time in four years in the OHL.

"I didn't really know what to expect. That team welcomed me with open arms. Mike Vellucci was a great coach for me. All three teams I was on this year, Saginaw, USA and Plymouth, it helped me a lot."

Mooseheads defenceman Trey Lewis (Ghyslain Bergeron, The Canadian Press)

During the 2012 President's Cup playoffs, the Halifax Mooseheads lost then-captain Cameron Critchlow for a crucial playoff game after he received an automatic ban for removing a foe's helmet during a fight even thought it was debatable he did so. History has repeated itself with Halifax team leaders receiving penalties that call for automatic suspensions.

In the final minute of Game 4 of the President's Cup final, Baie-Comeau's Alec Jon Banville touched off a skirmish by bumping Mooseheads goalie Zachary Fucale after a whistle. Fucale retreated to a neutral corner, only to get bumped by the Drakkar's Charles Poulin. That led Lewis to intervene; after all that he got the aggressor penalty after standing up for his goalie. So Banville gets two games for precipitating the fracas while somehow Lewis gets one for doing something any player in his skates would have done. Perhaps the judgment was 'eye for an eye' and each team should lose a player for the potentially decisive Game 5 in Halifax on Friday, but common sense might suggest that Lewis was no aggressor. Besides, does the Q really want a goalie fighting a skater, which is usually a mismatch?

Oliver Bjorkstrand is first in WHL rookie playoff scoring with 18 points in 19 games (Bryan Heim, Portland Winterhawks)

Oliver Bjorkstrand's two experiences playing in Edmonton were a world of difference.

This week, the Portland Winterhawks' dashing Dane helped his team win twice on Edmonton Oil Kings' ice to move within a single win of winning the Western Hockey League title. It's quite the opposite from the 18-year-old's experience playing for Denmark in the 2012 world junior championship at Rexall Place, when Bjorkstrand, his brother Patrick and their coach-father Todd were just trying to keep a newly promoted team from getting overwhelmed.

"It's just a little better than losing by seven goals each game," Oliver Bjorkstrand, who is NHL Central Scouting's 36th-ranked North American skater, quipped during an interview this week. "No, it feels pretty good. It's a good place to play. I like it a lot.

"Maybe a little bit," Bjorkstrand, who hails from Herning, Denmark, added when asked if he has drawn on those superficially disparate experiences. "When I played here for Denmark I knew we were underdogs and we had to work really hard. It's the same thing here. It's the finals and if you don't work hard, you won't have a chance to win. So yes, I guess I took a little bit from the national team."

As it happened, the mere fact that the then 16-year-old Bjorkstrand was playing in that 2012 WJC put him on the Winterhawks' radar. The WHL powerhouse, thanks to the Calgary Flames' Sven Baertschi and New York Islanders' Nino Niederreiter blossoming into NHL first-round picks, has had an excellent track record with imports. Baertschi came to Portland for his 18-year-old season, while Niederreiter profiled more as a power winger. Bjorkstrand, a dual American-Danish citizen, is thriving while being an undersized 17-year-old who is listed at 5-foot-11 and 164 pounds ("I need to gain some weight and build some muscle so I need to work really hard in the off-season").

Combing all corners of the country and the blogosphere for your junior hockey headlines ...

WHL

With the Portland Winterhawks one win from the Ed Chynoweth Cup, Kerry Eggers plumbs the depths the franchise had sunk to before Bill Gallacher bought it in late 2008. (Portland Tribune)

Edmonton Oil Kings coach Derek Laxdal did a little soft-shoe routine to get around calling out centre Henrik Samuelsson for his late high-sticking penalty that essentially ended Game 4 against Portland. (Edmonton Journal)

New Regina Pats coach Malcolm Cameron has inked a two-year contract as the club's new bench boss after the departure of Pat Conacher. (Regina Leader-Post)

Hey, a trade: veteran forward Joel Hamilton heads to Vancouver, with a third-round bantam selection going to Red Deer. (Vancouver Province)

No two ways about it, Alberta is now the biggest player-producing province in the Dub. (Coming Down The Pipe!)

OHL

Beastly Plymouth Whalers wing Tom Wilson has been called up by the Washington Capitals for their Stanley Cup playoff series. Is there a chance he might draw into the lineup? (Russian Machine Never Breaks)

Colts veterans (from left) Ryan O'Connor, Zach Hall, Mark Scheifele and Steven Beyers celebrate a goal (OHL Images)

Mark Scheifele delivered, Dale Hunter deflected and the upstart Barrie Colts have the London Knights on the brink of elimination. On with the post-game questions:

Barrie 6 London 4, ENG (Colts lead final 3-1, Game 5 Friday at London) — What's gone wrong for London? The Colts have been opportunistic and London's defence corps, despite having three world junior-calibre rearguards with Pittsburgh Penguins prospects Scott Harrington and Olli Määttä and Russian rookie Nikita Zadorov (who likely has a WJC in his future), seems to be in a shambles. (Their midseason add on the blueline, 19-year-old Justin Sefton, hasn't been playing much.) Throw in some shakiness from Anthony Stolarz that is part and parcel of the high-ceiling goalie having only a half-season of OHL experience. Give Barrie coach Dale Hawerchuk his due for having a the right supporting cast around Scheifele and their headliners and it makes sense how the Colts could be up 3-1, when seven days ago the best-case scenario seemed

Mark Scheifele's back-to-back 5-points nights have helped Barrie take a 3-1 lead on favoured London (Terry Wilson, OHL Images)

No. 1 star: Mark Scheifele, Barrie Colts (OHL)

The Winnipeg Jets email inbox is probably overflowing with thank-yous from fans of Barrie and, quite possibly, some who support 18 other OHL teams. Scheifele, whose return from the Jets to play out his 19-year-old season shaped the Colts' season scored four goals in a fast and furious third period to lead the Colts to a 6-4 comeback win and 3-1 series lead over the favoured London Knights. For the second night in a row, Scheifele (4G-1A, +2) affirmed why, regardless of who gets the OHL's player of the year award on Thursday, he has been the league's best forward since Alex Galchenyuk graduated from the Sarnia Sting to the Montreal Canadiens in January.

The final is far from over, since the defending champion Knights are eminently capable of overcoming a 3-1 deficit. The imagined best-case scenario going into the series was that Barrie might be even though four games. That 2-2 tie seemed likely after Barrie scored in the first minute on a Scheifele setup and then fell behind 3-1 on the scoreboard.

Scheifele has 10 points in the series' past two games (OHL Images)

Dale Hunter is often a man of few words until he wants the media to talk about something other than how his London Knights are playing.

Dale Hunter and the Knights host Game 5 of the final on Friday (Terry Wilson, OHL Images)Out of possible exasperation with the officials, or confusion stemming from the London Knights being down 3-1 in the Ontario Hockey League final, Hunter delivered a classic post-game tirade on Wednesday. Following the Barrie Colts' 6-4 comeback win, where Mark Scheifele scored four of the underdogs' five third-period goals to push London to the brink of elimination, Hunter accused the Winnipeg Jets first-rounder and his teammates of auditioning for Celebrity Diving.

It probably beats addressing the Knights' inability to suppress Scheifele, who has scored or assisted on 12 of the Colts' 17 goals through four games. Or why goalie Anthony Stolarz has allow 10 goals on 53 shots in the past two games. Or why

"Actually we played very well, got a 3-1 lead and the last six minutes of the second period, they started diving," Hunter said in a post-game press conference on Rogers Television. "And Belleville [which the Colts beat in the OHL Eastern final] warned us about that. Scheifele, these guys, they love to dive and draw penalties. They do three in a row and its changes the course of the game that way. It's a tough call when the referees, when people dive, they don't know whether it's a true hook or not a hook. Unfortunately, that's what they've been doing and they did it in the round before. It changed the course of the game.

"It's tough on the referees. If they're going to get away with it, we're going to have to do it also. It doesn't make for a very good hockey game. The National Hockey League, they have a rule, if you're on the list [of habitual divers], they don't get the calls."