Hartley’s Sport Shorts; Saturday, June 5

As of 12:05 p.m. Saturday, June 5  by Hartley Miller

NHL—(2 Stanley Cup playoff games)

Montreal  1  Winnipeg  0
(Carey Price made 30 saves for the shutout. The Canadiens lead the best-of-7 series 2-0)

Vegas  3  Colorado  2
(Avalanche up 2-1 with the home team winning each game)

There are two NHL playoff games tonight (Saturday): Carolina at Tampa Bay (1:00 PT) and Boston at New York Islanders (4:15). The Lightning and Bruins both lead their series 2-1.

The NHL schedule is right here.

World Hockey:

Team Canada beat the U.S. 4-2 in one semifinal today (Saturday) at the world hockey championship in Latvia . The other semi had Finland over Germany 2-1.
The Canada-Finland final will be played Sunday.

WHL:

He finished tied for third among WHL rookies with nine goals during the 2020-21 WHL season, Koehn Ziemmer is the B.C. Division Rookie of the Year presented by @Wawanesa.#WHLAwards | @PGCougars pic.twitter.com/yBxbN4dsno

— The WHL (@TheWHL) June 3, 2021

Columns:

HART ATTACK: @Hartley_Miller talks about the fierce nature of the @NHL playoffs in his latest column
| https://t.co/6wHv6CHc0v #cityofpg #sports pic.twitter.com/O2CatzSaMA

— My Prince George Now (@mypgnow) June 4, 2021

MJHL adds a 13th franchise . . . BCHL’s Centennials get their man . . . Wild sews up Littler for 10 years https://t.co/eMw8mysixM

— Gregg Drinnan (@gdrinnan) June 5, 2021

NBA—(6th game in the Conference quarterfinals)

LA Clippers  104  Dallas Mavericks  97
(Series tied 3-3 with the visiting team winning each game.  The 7th and deciding game will be played Sunday in LA)

There is one NBA playoff game tonight: Milwaukee at Brooklyn (4:30 PT) in the opener of that second round series.

The NBA playoff schedule is right here.

MLB

Houston Astros  13  Toronto Blue Jays  1

The (29-26) Blue Jays host the (32-25) Astros again this afternoon (12:07 PM PT) and Sunday.

The Blue Jays schedule is right here.