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AP• You're probably seen Zdeno Chara's tribute to Pavel Demitra by now, but here's Slovakia's Branko Radivojevic rocking a tribute T-shirt after their semifinal win over the Czech Republic at the Hockey World Championship in Helsinki.

• NBC audiences were down over the weekend for the conference finals. Lepore: "Saturday's Rangers-Devils game drew a 1.3 overnight rating, down 13% from last year's Game 4 between Boston and Tampa Bay. It may have been hurt by the early timeslot, or the fact that there was a huge dip in ratings in the lone local market, New York. Game 3 drew a 4.2 in the Big Apple, well down from the 6.2 for Game 1 on the NBC Sports Network.  Sunday's Game 4 between the Coyotes and Kings drew a 1.1 overnight, down 15% from last year's Game 4 between the Canucks and Sharks, which was a 2-1 series, as opposed to the 3-0 lead the Kings had heading in. The game drew a series high 2.7 in Los Angeles." [Puck The Media]

• Henrik Lundqvist on the New York Rangers fans that invade the Rock: "We always have played there in Newark. It's one of the things that makes it special to play these types of games, play New York teams.  We have a lot of support, and talked about
it earlier, a couple days ago, when you see the way that the fans react to things that happen during the game or even the results, it's exciting." [Rangers Rants]

• Looks like Stu Bickel will move up to forward to replace the suspended Brandon Prust. [Slap Shot]

• Larry Brooks believes the hate-o-meter is slowly seeing the needled move on the Rangers and New Jersey Devils. [NY Post]

• Sports Business Journal is reporting that the Detroit Red Wings have settled on a designer for a new 18,000-seat arena to replace the Joe. [Detroit News]

• Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has agreed to terms with defenseman Jamie McBain on a two-year contract. The deal will pay McBain $1.7 million in 2012-13, and $1.9 million in 2013-14. [Hurricanes]

• They signed Bobby Sanguinetti and forward Nicolas Blanchard to two-way contracts, too. [Canes Country]

• Zach Parise is a free agent … risk? "It is very likely that he will elevate whichever team signs him in the short run, but as teams weigh the idea of making him an offer, they need to keep in mind the distinct possibility that he will underperform this contract in the near future and eventually become an anchor on the team's salary cap finances." [NHL Numbers]

• Bear killin' David Booth has a friend in Ted Nugent. [PITB]

Music has a long history of supergroups: The Traveling Wilburys. Cream. Toto. But here's a star pairing that might come out of left field: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and retired NHL great Chris Chelios.

I submit, for your viewing pleasure, a video of the two Chicagoans giving The Band classic "The Weight" the karaoke treatment at Stanley's Kitchen & Tap in Lincoln Park.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the impromptu performance came after someone tried to karaoke a Vedder original, prompting the Pearl Jam frontman to storm the stage and stay there. From the Chicago Tribune:

It all began when one bar patron opted to sing Pearl Jam's "Alive." Vedder joined him on stage and turned the song into the duet, much to the delight of half the bar. I hear the other half of the bar was too in the bag to realize what was happening.

The Evanston native sang around five songs, including The Band's "The Weight" and The Who's "Baba O'Riley" (aka "Teenage Wasteland"). He took a break afterward but would return to join another patron who was struggling through his respective song.

Eventually, he was joined by Chelios and MLB pitcher Kerry Wood, with whom he was partying, for the standard karaoke take on "The Weight," which involves mumbling through the verses, which nobody knows, then belting out the chorus. (It's pretty much the same way people karaoke "Cat's in the Cradle" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's.")

This episode raises an important question: With Eddie Vedder and Chris Chelios doing karaoke at bars in Chicago, why would Patrick Kane have to go to Wisconsin to party?

It's a Monday edition of Marek vs. Wyshynski beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, and we're talking about the following and more:

Special Guest Stars: Liam McHugh of NBC Sports joins us to talk about the playoffs as well as life with Milbury and Jones. Plus, Dmitry Chesnokov talks Alex Semin and Russia winning IIHF gold.

• In which Marek and Wysh discuss the resurgent Coyotes, if only for a game.

• The Devils and Rangers prepare for Game 4.

• Wysh's adventures in New Jersey.

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APHere is Russian national team head coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov at his Bar Mitzvah.

No, check that: This is Russian national team head coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov being thrown in the air by his players after they defeated Slovakia and captured the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on Sunday.

Is hip-hip-hooray people tossing a staple of Russian celebrations? Frankly, we wouldn't mind seeing this after a team wins the Stanley Cup. Preferably the New York Rangers ("Enough with the [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] tossing, you [expletives]") or the St. Louis Blues, a Herculean test of strength.

Here's are the Russians, throwing the old man:

Dude caught some air on that. Luckily for the coach, that went better than when Semyon Varlamov attempt to raise the IIHF trophy at center ice: (s/t Marat Ryndin)

Best save of the tournament.

Coming up, celebrations of the Russian ice hockey victory from back home and in Helsinki, as well as the scene from Slovakia.

Getty ImagesThe New Jersey Devils have scored three goals against goalie Henrik Lundqvist in the Eastern Conference Playoffs, but have attempted more shots than the New York Rangers in each of the three games. They're creating chances. Finishing them is another story.

[Related: Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist frustrates the Devils to win Game 3]

Devils winger Petr Sykora has 34 playoff goals in 130 games, including two in the 2012 playoffs. He's gone scoreless in his last four games, and won't be in the lineup for Monday night's Game 4 against the Rangers — losing his spot to Jacob Josefson, who had two goals in 41 games during an injury-plagued season.

Coach Pete DeBoer said he told Josefson to "bring us some energy, play like you did the last three, four weeks of the season." That's when his ice time hovered around 15 minutes per game, before breaking his left wrist in April 3.

"He's had a tough year between the injuries and the adversity, really over the last two years," said DeBoer. "And I really felt the last two, three weeks of the season he had re-found his game and his confidence.  And if we can get a version of that player in the lineup tonight, we'll be a better team."

Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.

It's possibly the greatest bit of investigative journalism conducted since Woodward and Bernstein brought down Richard Nixon.

This exemplary, collective effort of sleuth work is currently ongoing in Los Angeles, Calif., where an entire media market has unearthed the NHL's shocking secret:

The city has a professional hockey team.

Over the past week or so here at Puck Daddy, we've tried to document every startling discovery made by the intrepid Los Angeles media, like how to properly pronounce Anze Kopitar's name (it's hard because he's from Bosnia or something), the real name of this Drew Doughty character (it's actually Brad!) and that hockey is in fact not played with a ball, but rather a little piece of rubber known as a "puck." That last one makes me pretty uncomfortable because of the word it rhymes with. ("Duck" — sorry, I just don't trust 'em; they have weird beaks).

Just how villainous is this team, operating as a sort of sporting sleeper cell? They got all the way to the Western Conference Finals without one local noticing. That takes real criminal talent. And not only that, but, the NHL had the diabolical idea to hide it right under the Los Angelinos' noses, by having their home games played at the Staples Center. You know, where the Lakers play. Further, they named the team the Kings to intentionally confuse even the savviest media organization into thinking they are the NBA's Sacramento Kings.

Astonishingly devious stuff. More twists and turns than the Da Vinci Code, which I've read three times just to make sure I understood it all.

The best bit of this journalism on this pressing issue comes, of course, from the city's paper of record, the Los Angeles Times, winner of 44 Pulitzer Prizes since 1942, including three in 2012. It was for that towering beacon of journalistic excellence that columnist Chris Erskine successfully scruted several of the team and sport's most inscrutable mysteries.

For instance, that thing I said earlier about the puck (again, yuck… oh and that's another gross word it rhymes with), I learned it from Erskine. Apparently they even freeze the thing. And that's a huge point of concern, because, "The hardest shots can reach 110 mph and tear flesh, crush bone, even kill you if you're not careful." Yikes, you guys!

(Coming Up: Rick Nash to Boston?; Tororella defends Prust; Ryan Suter faces his future; Evegni Malkin is having a pretty good season; why Lundqvist is King; why the Capitals can't win with Ovechkin; the Islanders know how to party; Canucks might keep Luongo; Ryan Miller on the CBA; Flames and Oilers coaching news; and are the Kings in trouble?)

Despite being a New Jersey Devils fan for over three decades, I don't have a problem paying a compliment to our archrivals from across the river. For example, the spelling on their jerseys is impeccably accurate. Well, most of the time.

From Marty "Fatso" jokes to "Queen Lundqvist" signs, you're hard-pressed to find mutual admiration in this rivalry. But we tried. Here is a Puck Daddy Mini-Doc in which we asked Devils fans to say something nice about the Rangers, and Rangers fans to do the same about the Devils, before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final.

So, in summary: "No." Although the Devils have cold beer, the Rangers have patriotic jerseys and Henrik Lundqvist is a "good goalie." Oh, and "Matteau." But the Flyers fan was insightful.

Today's assignment in the comments: Say something nice about your archrivals.

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Zac Efron sits next to a Coyotes fan.No. 1 Star: Shane Doan, Phoenix Coyotes

The Coyotes captain beat Jonathan Quick twice in Game 4, leading Phoenix to a 2-0 victory to cut the Los Angeles Kings' series lead to 3-1. Doan's power-play goal in the first period and shot off the goal-cam in the second provided the Coyotes with all the offense they needed.

No. 2 Star: Mike Smith, Phoenix Coyotes

With a 36-save performance, Smith notched his third shutout of the postseason and backstopped the Coyotes to a fifth game of the conference final.

No. 3 Star: Trevor Lewis, Los Angeles Kings

The Kings forward tied Drew Doughty for the team lead with five shots on goal and led the team with five hits in the Game 4 loss, playing 13:32.

Honorable mention: Ray Whitney and Antoine Vermette had assists for the Coyotes. … Oliver Ekman-Larsson was a plus-1 in 24:53. ... Quick made 19 saves.

Conn Smythe Watch: 1. Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles Kings; 2. Dustin Brown, Los Angeles Kings; 3. Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers; 4. Ilya Kovalchuk,