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Finals have both been decided, and they look familiar. For the third straight year, the Cavaliers will face the Warriors in the NBA Finals. The Warriors won the 2015 Finals in six games, but the Cavs came back from being down 3-1 to win the 2016 Finals. This year, I think the Warriors will get revenge on Cleveland because they are hungrier, and they added Kevin Durant in the off-season. In the NHL, it will be the second straight year in which the Penguins will face a team in its first Stanley Cup Final. Nashville will hope that it will do better than last year's Sharks, who lost to Pittsburgh in five. Pittsburgh will try to win two straight for the second time in franchise history. However, the Predators are a very tough, resilient team, and if anyone can beat the champs, its Nashville. Tune in tonight to see who will win the first game of what I think will be a very close Final. 

The Final Fours of both the NHL and NBA are coming to a close. The Predators and Warriors will both look to go tho the Finals in the West tonight. If the Anaheim Ducks beat Nashville though, they will force a Game 7. The Spurs however, will still have to survive three more games if they win. The biggest story however, doesn't come from either of these series. Nor does it come from the Penguins-Senators series, which Pittsburgh will look to end in Game 6 after their 7-0 Game 5 shut out. It came for the Celtics-Cavaliers series, which everyone expected to be an easy win for Cleveland. The Cavs dominated Games 1 and 2, and with Isaiah Thomas out for the rest of the postseason, the Celtics looked finished. Despite this, the Celtics fought back, and won on this Avery Bradley game winning three. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKptL79wBEA You never know who will beat the odds and make history!

In the past week, the Final Four in the NHL was decided. The Predators and Ducks won the Western Conference Semifinals, and the Penguins and Senators won in the East. Game 1 of the Western Conference finals was a close one. On their first shot of the series, the Ducks took an early lead. Then a seesaw battle took place, which ended up as a tie at the end of regulation. Then, the Predators got the game winning goal in OT. The Ducks nearly took a lead , but Pekka Rinne made several incredible saves. The Predators also missed an opportunity. The Ducks got two penalties, so the Predators had a 5 on 3 advantage. But they couldn't make any thing of it .This looks like it will be a close series. If that series will be close, then the Senators-Penguins series will be extremely close. The two very talented teams will face-off in Game 1 tonight. The Senators have the skill to take on the Penguins, but I think the Stanley Cup Champs will repeat as Eastern Conference champions after a hard fo...

  A lot has happened since I last posted. The Blues stayed alive in their Game 5 win, and will look to force a Game 7 today at 3:00. The other team that was on the brink of elimination was the Capitals. They were trailing 2-1 in the Third, but tied it 3 minutes into the period. With 12:40, the Penguins still had hope to take back the lead. 27 seconds later, the Capitals were winning 4-2.  They won by that score and will also try to force a Game 7 on Monday. The Senators beat the Rangers in OT and will look to finish them off. Hopefully the Rangers can force a Game 7 as well. The other team looking to come back from 3-2 is the Oilers, who originally had a 2-0 series lead. Game 6 of that series is also tonight. In the NBA, the Jazz fought hard against the Warriors last night, and actually had a lead of as many as 9 points in the Third. But the Warriors came back and won 102-91. At 3:30, the Cavaliers will look to sweep the Raptors. The Celtics will try to get a...

Michael Gabner's wrap around first period goal was the second out of four Rangers goals in Game 3. Game 4 is tomorrow. The NHL playoff matchups are becoming closer, as the Ducks and Capitals could get even with wins tonight after being down 2-0 before Game 3 wins. The Capitals did this by beating the Penguins 3-2 in Overtime. They caught a break after Sidney Crosby got a concussion. Despite having tied the game at three, the OIlers were overwhelmed by the Ducks, who won 6-3. The team that could not tie their series was the Blues  They could not score enough and lost to Nashville 2-1. The Predators could advance on Friday. The Rangers accomplished did come back in their series last night and had an offensive explosion at Madison Square Garden. They beat the Senators 4-1 thanks to two first period goals and two second period goals.  The Senators scored their lone goal after all four New York goals were scored. Isaiah Thomas electrified the crowd with his 53 points on ...