This Week In Sports: April 4th

NHL:

The race to the playoffs continues, and it appears to be a three team race in both conferences with Buffalo, Florida and Washington vying for the final few spots in the East while Phoenix, San Jose, Los Angeles battle it out for the West (Colorado and Dallas look like major long shots at this point).

The topic of concussions has come up again this week, as there is a chance that Canadiens starting goaltender, Carey Price, might be suffering from one at the hands of his own teammate, David Desharnais, who fell on him last week during practice.

Finally, Mike Milbury of NBC openly mocked Sidney Crosby on Philadelphia radio this week the day after the Pens and Flyers had a heated matchup that ended in a brawl. Milbury called Crosby a little punk who deserved to be hit, and mocked him by saying he had just come back from his 35th concussion.


NFL:

The Saints Bounty-Gate drama continues this week as the punished parties in the organization have appealed their suspensions and will meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday. While it doesn't seem likely that Goodell will reduce the suspensions of head coach Sean Payton and GM Mickey Loomis, this does buy them a bit more time to find someone to run the organization in the interim; the most notable name coming up is that of Bill Parcells.


MLB:

The Major League Baseball season is about to begin, and there is already drama brewing; Ubaldo Jimenez of the Cleveland Indians started against his former team, the Colorado Rockies, last week and took the opportunity to let the organization know how he felt about not getting the treatment he felt he deserved last year by hitting all-star Troy Tulowitzki in the elbow with the first pitch of his first at bat.


PGA:

The biggest weekend of the year is about to kick off as Augusta prepares to welcome the world's best golfers at the Masters. The attention will be revolving around - you guessed it - Tiger Woods. Woods is coming off an impressive win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational two weeks ago and many believe is rounding back into his elite form once again; it couldn't have come at a better time for Tiger, and for golf.

-Andrew Maggio co-hosts Game Misconduct every Sunday from 12pm-2pm and runs a dedicated Habs blog that you can check out here