Off, the Calgary Flames unexpectedly find themselves hovering just three points out of the final wild-card spot in the West.

The Victoria Royals clinched a Western Hockey League playoff berth but not in the fashion they would have liked to have done.

Bedard deserves criticism. He should be better than he has been. But the recent unloading of abuse felt almost coordinated, as though the powers that be in the national media had decided that Bedard ...