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#5: Game 11: Prince George Firebirds vs Colorado Mammoths
Coming off of the game tying goal, the Firebirds were fired up, and Dayne took out some of this energy in a fight against the Mammoth's Finn Larsson. They fought to a draw, but the Firebirds were able to keep the momentum rolling, scoring the next three goals and eventually winning the game 5-3 - their first win of the series after two losses at home.


#4: Game 43: Colorado Mammoths vs Vancouver Whalers
The Whalers were down 1-0 entering the third, and clearly hoped to gain some energy from this fight. After a hard fought battle, however, the Mammoth's Krüger emerged victorious, but the Whalers seemed to have gained some momentum anyway - they went on to score later in the period, and then won this first game of the finals in overtime.


#3: Game 16: Montreal Militia vs Kelowna Knights
A late game fight, Kelowna was looking to gain some energy when Chuch and Reid squared off late in the third period. Kelowna did manage to capitalize on the post-fight energy to score a goal a little over a minute later, but it was not enough to change their fortunes and the Knights won the game 3-2.


#2: Game 33: St. Louis Scarecrows vs Colorado Mammoths
Colorado was up 3-1 early in the 2nd when Kesler and Rasmussen met each other across the faceoff circle. Shortly after Rasmussen won the draw the two decided to face off again, this time in a fight, and this time Kesler came away the victor. Despite this, Rasmussen's team eventually came back to win the game in overtime. This fight had more of a mobilizing effect on the Scarecrows than almost any fight did on a team in the playoffs.


#1: Game 20: Kelowna Knights vs Montreal Militia

This was certainly the fight of the playoffs. Lebeau and Klozoff were exchanging heating words even before the face-off, with Lebeau eventually getting thrown out of the faceoff circle. Koskinen came in to take his place, and beating Klozoff to the draw was apparently the last straw. Klozoff instigated a fight against Lebeau, but the two were equally matched. Koskinen, meanwhile, came out on top over Bakos-Markov, and Ojala managed to win won for the other side against Frīdrihs Ozoliņš.

Montreal's gamble did not pay off - after Klozoff was ejected from the game, all the momentum swung in their opponents favor, with the Knight scoring the next four goals in a row to win the game 5-2.



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This is an incredibly difficult decision, as two Whalers had dominant playoff seasons to lead the team to the 4 Star Cup. While Carrick Murphy played incredibly between the pipes, my vote for Playoff MVP goes to defensemen Shoyu Kikkoman. For a team that had a by in the first round of the playoffs, and had an incredibly short path through the two rounds they played in to win the cup, you don't expect to see too many Whalers on the individual leaderboards. But Kikkoman shows up all over the place - he's tied for 5th in goals (with 5) and stands alone at 2nd in assists (10) - not only does his 15 points in 9 games put him at 2nd in the league for post-season points, in all three areas - goals, assists, and total points, the only players ahead of him played 8 games more per person than he did, with 17 games apiece. With 1.56 points per 20 minutes, Shoyu was far and away the best offensive player in the playoffs.

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