If you didn't get the message last year during the team's playoff run, Nashville Predators fans are one passionate bunch.

So much so that after Filip Forsberg had a goal taken away on a controversial goaltender interference call Tuesday night against the Florida Panthers, one fan - by the name of Briley Meeks - decided to ship a dead catfish to the NHL office in Toronto.

"I was like, 'OK, I will,'" Meeks said, according to ESPN's Greg Wyshynski. "One minute I was sitting on my couch, the next minute I was going to buy fish and shipping it to Canada. It wasn't the refs in the game that made the call. It was Toronto. So they deserve the dead catfish."

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Meeks made sure to check with UPS, which then confirmed with Canadian Customs that she was allowed to proceed with sending the fish across the border. The total cost to ship the fish in the container came to roughly $150, and to top it all off, Meeks included a message on the inside of the container that simply read: "YOU SUCK."

"I hope they're not mad about it. It's just a prank," Meeks said. "But we got robbed. The players were stunned. Even the Panthers players and fans knew it was a bad call too.

"I do want to clarify that there was no ice in the cooler. I wanted it to be disgusting."

Luckily, the Predators sit comfortably in a playoff spot and even have a chance to clinch the Presidents' Trophy on Thursday, so the missed call should be water under the bridge soon enough.

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New York Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk will take in the final two games from the press box.

The 34-year-old has been shut down for the remainder of the regular season due to injury, head coach Doug Weight announced Thursday, according to Andrew Gross of Newsday Sports.

Weight noted it's yet to be determined whether Boychuk will require offseason surgery. Earlier this season, he missed 18 games with a lower-body injury.

In 58 games, he put up six goals and 18 points.

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The Philadelphia Flyers will likely have their most experienced goaltender in the crease for the critical penultimate game of the regular season.

Brian Elliott will start against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night, assuming there are no setbacks, according to Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The 32-year-old netminder hasn't played since Feb. 10 and underwent core muscle surgery three days later. His original timetable was five-to-six weeks.

Philadelphia enters Thursday's action occupying the second Eastern Conference wild-card spot, four points ahead of the Florida Panthers, who have a game in hand.

The Flyers can clinch a playoff berth with either a win of any kind and a Panthers loss of any kind, or a single point and a Panthers loss in regulation.

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Through the remainder of the regular season, we'll take a look at how the night's action impacts the playoff races, highlighting which teams' postseason odds went up or down significantly.

Western Conference

It was a fairly quiet night in the NHL on Wednesday with just three games on the schedule, but with the Anaheim Ducks' win, there is now just a single spot left to be had in the West.

The Chicago Blackhawks played the role of spoiler against the St. Louis Blues, delivering the club a crushing 4-3 loss on the back of Duncan Keith's game-winner with just nine seconds left in regulation.

The loss significantly hurt the Blues' chances, meanwhile, the Colorado Avalanche were thrilled as their slim one-point lead in the standings remained intact.

To see percentages for the entire NHL, visit Sports Club Stats.

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The Anaheim Ducks punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a win over Minnesota on Wednesday.

Not only did Anaheim clinch a spot with the win, but they also leapfrogged the Los Angeles Kings - who qualified for the postseason earlier in the night - for third place in the Pacific Division.

The Ducks are the seventh Western Conference team to clinch their playoff spot this season, with St. Louis and Colorado left to duke it out for the final wild-card berth.

Anaheim won the Cup back in 2007, and advanced to the Western Conference finals last season, losing to Nashville in six games.

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The 2017-18 season has been one to forget for Ottawa Senators fans, but the play of forward Matt Duchene has given the club a reason for optimism heading into the most important offseason in franchise history.

It took Duchene a while to get settled in Canada's capital, as he recorded just six points in 24 games, but since then, he's been one of the best players in the league.

With another goal in Ottawa's 4-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday, Duchene now has 20 tallies and 42 points in his last 42 games, showing why general manager Pierre Dorion gave up a significant haul to get him in November.

Kyle Turris - the man Duchene was essentially acquired for in order to upgrade the Sens' No. 1 center position - has just nine goals and 22 points in his last 42 games with the Nashville Predators.

Duchene's strong second half ended up being too little, too late, but since the Sens may not have their first-round pick in 2019, having the forward for a full season could help restore the team to respectability in a year where Erik Karlsson may not be on the roster.

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The Los Angeles Kings clinched a playoff berth following the St. Louis Blues' loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.

The Blackhawks stormed back to win from a 3-1 deficit, scoring the game-winning goal with just 8.5 seconds left to help their once-archrival clinch a playoff spot.

Since winning their second Stanley Cup in 2013-14, the Kings have alternated missing and making the postseason. They missed in 2014-15, lost in the first round in 2015-16, missed last season, and are now returning this year.

The Kings are also trending in the right direction heading into the playoffs, as they're 11-4-3 over their last 18 games. The return of Jeff Carter has been a key factor, as he has 13 goals in 19 games since missing over four months with an injury.

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