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The NHL’s Eastern Conference Finals are set after two game 7’s this week which saw the Pittsburgh Penguins and Carolina Panthers both prevail on the road to advance. After Pittsburgh’s win as Washington, the Penguins appear to be the team to beat in this series, and Penguins apparel is flying off the shelves. However Carolina jumped out to a quick 3-1 series lead on the #1 seeded Boston Bruins, and the Hurricanes should not be overlooked. It always seems that Carolina Hurricanes hats & merchandise is a little slower in sales since they are not in such a hockey-crazed town as Pittsburgh, but online stores are reporting nice traffic gains and sales increases.

Pro Hockey Fans has released their Eastern Conference Finals preview and makes their pick for who will play for the Stanley Cup in 2009. Will it be the Penguins or the Hurricanes? Find out!

While both teams led their conference finals series 3-0, there was no sweep for either the Penguins or the Red Wings. Lucky for both teams, the 33-year trend of teams coming back from a 3-0 deficit appears to have likely been broken as well. On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in 5 games to take the Eastern Conference Finals and advance to play for the Stanley Cup. One night later, the Detroit Red Wings finally put away the Dallas Stars with a 4-1 road win. After taking a 3-0 series lead, Detroit lost Game #4 @ Dallas and Game #5 in Detroit, but with Monday’s win, the Red Wings take the series in 6 games.

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AFter a dominating performance in Game #1, the Detroit Red Wings jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the 1st period of Game #2 and the defense held tight as neither team scored again on Saturday night. As a result of the 2-1 win, the Detroit Red Wings now lead the Dallas Stars 2-0 n their best-of-seven series as they head to Dallas for Game #3 on Monday night.

Despite being without the 2008 NHL Playoffs’ leading goal-scorer, Johan Franzen, the Wings were able to come up with just enough offense as Darren Helm and Henrik Zetterberg each scored a goal to lead the Wings’ offense. With the win the Red Wings apparel continues to be a hot-seller online as the Detroit Red Wings have now won 8 consecutive playoff games.

With the Western Conference Finals set to begin on Thursday night, Pro Hockey Fans has released their Western Conference Finals preview. With Dallas and Detroit set to face off in a best-of-seven series to determine the Western Conference Championship and a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals, Pro Hockey Fans writer Kevin Chavez gives us the main things to look for in this series. Check out the entire Western Conference Finals preview online over at ProHockey-fans.com.

Pro Hockey Fans continues to provide fantastic coverage of the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs and they have continued that coverage with recaps of the first two games in the semifinals series. The Philadelphia vs Montreal recap tells us how the Flyers escaped Montreal with the series tied 1-1 while the Penguins were able to win games #1 & 2 vs the NY Rangers. Finally, the Stars continue to surprise after knocking off the defending Stanley Cup Champions in the 1st round, Dallas has taken a 2-0 lead over San Jose with two road wins at the Shark Tank. Keep checking back at Pro Hockey Fans for more NHL Playoff coverage all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.

The Detroit Red Wings took command of their series with the Colorado Avalanche earlier today as they dominated colorado in a 5-1 win and Pro Hockey Fans has posted their Detroit/Colorado game recap. Johan Fanzen netted a hat trick for the Red Wings as we head to Colorado with the Red Wings leading 2-0 in this best of seven series.

As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue and just 8 teams remain alive for hockey’s most coveted prize, Pro Hockey Fans has released their Eastern Conference Semifinals preview and their Western Conference Semifinals preview. Pro Hockey Fans writer Kevin Chaves has been providing Stanley Cup Playoffs coverage throughout the playoffs, and they continue to do so with the conference semifinal previews and predictions.

Pro Hockey Fans has made several new updates to recap each day of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs in the past few days. As several teams have advanced to the conference semifinals, Pro Hockey Fans writer Kevin Chaves recaps each day’s events as after tonight 8 teams will remain alive in the quest to win the Stanley Cup. Check out all of the updates online at www.ProHockey-fans.com.

The NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs are as exciting as ever in 2008 and Pro Hockey Fans has added our latest update from Kevin Chaves. Check out the latest Stanley Cup Playoffs update over at ProHockey-fans.com!

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the first team to advance to the Stanley Cup Playoffs’ 2nd round as they defeated the Ottawa Senators 3-1 last night to complete the Pens’ 4-0 sweep of Ottawa. With the win the #2 seed Penguins advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals to face the winner of #3 Washington vs. #6 Philadelphia or the winner of #4 New Jersey vs. #5 NY Rangers; the Flyers lead Washington 2-1 heading into tonight’s Game #4 while the Rangers have a 3-1 lead on New Jersey heading into tomorrow’s Game #5.

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