Quick Glance: Paris is flying to Northern Ireland in two planes: one for the players and coaches and one for the medical team. Steven Stamkos and Derek Ryan are out and John Tavares, Andre Burakovsky and Gurkan Cetinkaya are all questionable as the series starts. Belfast, meanwhile, is ready to explode out of the gate…

Quick Glance: For the second straight season, Dublin gets to start the playoffs against the best team in the league. So much for the “luck of the Irish.” Helsinki goalie Andres De La Garma was as hot as a pistol as the season ended, which should make it even harder for the Guinness Chuggers to…