Your NHL Playoffs Open Thread

The Boston Bruins visit the Philadelphia Flyers for Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series at 3 p.m. The video offers seven minutes of highlights from the last time the teams faced one another in the playoffs. Hope you enjoy it.

Game 2 of the Nashville/Vancouver series commences at 9 p.m. eastern. Vancouver leads 1-0 because they won Game 1 by a score of 1-0.

David Krejci wants payback [Boston Herald]

Richards could be thorn in Chara's side again [Philadelphia Daily News]

Nashville Predators get reminded of Game 1 failures against Vancouver Canucks [The Tennessean]

Canucks-Predators also a battle of the bench bosses [Vancouver Sun]