Everyone's a winner!

Monday night had the potential to cause a hockey's version of a crisis of faith. The combination of the revival of Phil Kessel and the (temporary) decline of Carey Price allowed the Boston Bruins to claw back from a 3-1 series deficit and force a seventh game. Had the Bruins been victorious Monday night against the Montreal Canadiens it would have turned the hockey world upside down. As Bill Simmons pointed out in his Monday column the Canadiens have a history of ripping the heart from the Bruins' chest and stomping on it.

And that's just what happened at the Bell Centre as the Canadiens won 5-0 and everyone in the pool got three points. Everyone except Barry Horeczy; he was the lone poolie to call the Canadiens dramatic seventh game triumph and gets a bonus point.

Also Monday, soon-to-be Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin took the Washington Capitals on his shoulders and forced a seventh game in the series against the Philadelphia Flyers with two goals in the third period in a 4-2 win.

So with only two series left on the books (both with Game 7s set for Tuesday night), here are the latest team side standings:

1) Mark Brennae 20 Going for the perfect first round tonight
2) Brad Bouzane 18 You are perfect so far as well, but lack any bonus points
T3) Barry Horeczy 16 Good call on the Habs in 7
T3) Dale Oviatt 16 I'll be clad in Flames gear from head to toe on Tuesday
T3) Dave Washburn 16 I thought you'd know better than to bet on the Bruins against the Habs in the playoffs
T3) Don McGowan 16 I figured you'd appreciate the Kostitsyn brothers' performance on Monday
T3) Richard Warnica 16 The Canwest parade at the top continues
T3) Debb Coghlin 16 Like most people in this group, the Ducks are your lone blemish
T3) Liam Lynch 16 On the whole, this might be the best performance by a group of poolies in the first round
T3) Lloyd Mack 16 I'm sure the folks in Kenora aren't big Ovechkin fans right about now
T3) Mike James 16 Speaking of people who won't be buying the latest Ovechkin jersey. . .
T3) Scott McCleery 16 You have two potential bonus points on Tuesday night
T3) Terry James 16 Be easy on Mike if the Flyers lose on Tuesday night
T3) Sean Hutchinson 16 The lineups will be long at the sports bars, I bet
T3) Ron Strate 16 And the logjam comes to an end
T16) David Forbes 15 You lead the way in bonus points
T16) James Peters 15 You're beating me in both halves of the pool
T16) Jordan Stein 15 So those Manitoba Moose have a half-decent team, eh
T16) Julianna Nowaczek 15 Don't try to slip any Hungarian words into our Scrabulous game
T16) Ryan Plesko 15 You're pool hopes will be determined in the late game tonight
21) Jenn Hosfield 14 You've been able to stake out your own ground, tied with no one else
T22) Cliff Hosfied 13 And now we get to the group with two wrong, but one bonus point
T22) Jack James 13 I bet you've got your seat picked out for tonight
T22) Janet Chapman 13 At the top of the standings, many Canwesters
T22) Jason Anthony 13 In the middle of the standings a bunch of former rezzies
T22) Jeff Sandelli 13 Stress level rising . . . rising. . . rising
T22) Rob Shaw 13 Oh no! I'm watching some B.C. A-Channel right now and just heard about the shutdown at the mill in Ladysmith.
T22) Steve McKinley 13 When does the office concert season begin?
T22) Mary James 13 Looking forward to TO
T22) Peter James 13 I know I won't be able to concentrate at work on Tuesday
T31) Adam Fulton 12 Your sheet is clean enough that you could climb into the top 15 or so
T31) Justin Lee 12 You're winning on the other side of the pool
T31) Natalie James 12 If Australians chant, 'Aussie!, Aussie!, Aussie!, Oy!, Oy!, Oy!' what do New Zealanders chant?
T31) Neil MacKinnon 12 Speaking of chants, I'm sure you let out a few 'Oles' after the Habs win
T31) Stacey Tomlinson 12 I'm always looking good
T31) Kim Landon 12 I somehow missed you when I first did this update, and I spend like half and hour trying to figure out who was missing
T37) Ali Hewitt 10 A Sandelli NCAA pool/Sons of Manitoba hockey pool double seems remote at this point
T37) James Gordon 10 This is what you get for getting creative and going with the Preds
T39) Arthur Casement 9 You are making the Casement-basement jokes easier and easier
T39) Chris Chapman 9 Perhaps you should pick world championship teams or something
T39) Colleen Turnbull 9 The sum of the Colleen's still won't get you into the top 10
T39) Mary Kay Hosfield 9 So good on the player side, so bad on this side. I don't get it.
43) Colleen Racine 6 You're off the schneid, but still in last