Thanks to a regular season championship, the next round opening games are secured for thursday and friday of next week. The Aces play Idaho or Colorado who are going into Idaho monday for game 6. Idaho is up the game, 3-2. Game 7 if necessary is scheduled for Tuesday.
Either way the Aces will have 5 days at home between games while the visiting/traveling team will have no more than 2 with a possibility of 1 day off.
In the other division the lower seeds both won the opening round. The Western Conference 6 and 7 seeds. Not often do you see a 6th seed securing home ice in any round of playoff sports.
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