Last regular season game. Yeah, it's kind of important.

Mason Wilgosh, left, Brendan Shinnimin, Drew Owsley, Kruise Reddick and Johnny Lazo are all list players who became top players for the Americans. (Herald/Kai-Huei Yau) -- to go with the article from yesterday.  What a great picture!

"It was a really good game," said Tri-City coach Jim Hiller. "You don't come into this building without everyone pulling on the same rope. A lot of good stuff had to happen other than the big stuff. They laid it on the line."

The Americans (47-21-1-2, 97 points), who never trailed in the game, play host to Spokane tonight. A victory would give the Americans the division title and the Western Conference title, regardless of the outcome of tonight's Everett game with Chilliwack, or the Everett-Spokane game on Sunday.

"We've worked hard all year to play big games, and (today) is another big game," Hiller said. "This is a pretty good group of hockey players we have."  (Herald)

I'm so nervous for tonight's game I don't even have anything else to add.  Except I hope they carry that momentum and energy from last night into tonight, and I hope Spokane brings their leftover anger, resentment, and self-destructiveness that they ended last night with. :)