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The NHL Playoff Recap gives you THN's take of what happened in each game of the night and what the consequences will be for the rest of the series.

We also provide our Three Stars of the night, which will be tabulated after each round. First Star is three points, Second Star is two points and Third Star is one point. Be sure to vote on who you think the first star was as well.

Of course there's the other side of the coin: The Black Hole is a piece of the lineup that just couldn't get it going on a given night and contributed to a difficult evening for the team.

THNs Take: The question is no longer whether or not the Los Angeles Kings will advance to the Stanley Cup final. The only thing to determine now is whether or not theyll actually break a sweat getting there.

With their seventh straight road victory of this years playoffs, the Kings are on the verge of becoming the team to play the fewest games to get to the final since the 1988 Edmonton Oilers. The fact they are doing it in such a dominant fashion is a testament to how incredibly well they are playing, combined with the realization that the feel-good Phoenix Coyotes have hit a brick wall.

And by all accounts Phoenix isnt the least bit happy about it. The Coyotes are simply becoming unglued playing against a superior opponent. Well give Shane Doan a mulligan on his hit from behind on Trevor Lewis, but Martin Hanzals hit from behind on Dustin Brown and Derek Morris kneeing infraction on Rob Scuderi were inexcusable. All three will undoubtedly be reviewed, as will the offsetting minors on Brown and Coyotes goalie Mike Smith when Smith whacked Brown on the back of the legs on what might have been the worst call of the playoffs.

Like the Kings needed it. They finally got some production from the missing Jeff Carter, who scored a hat trick and was a menace in front of the Phoenix net all night. This is the team that couldnt score goals during the regular season, right? In a season when the post-season has defied all sense of logic, the Kings have scored an average of 3.18 goals per game in 11 games. During the regular season, they were the second worst offensive team in the league with 2.29 per game.

But thats what happens when a team is too big and too strong and too good for its opponent and is able to put everything together. When the Kings play the way they did in Game 2, combined with the goaltending of Jonathan Quick, theyre all but impossible to beat. Particularly for a team that knows it is hopelessly overmatched.

The Kings best players, unlike for long stretches during the regular season, have emerged to play enormous roles. The Coyotes best players are either invisible or conspicuous by their errors in judgment.

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Kings outmatch Coyotes, poised for Stanley Cup final

Meter mess also in NOTL. Parkers beware, one and two dollar coins from 2012 are not being accepted in parking meters and pay and display meters across Niagara-on-the-Lake. Stickers have been placed on the meters to notify those paying for parking. The new design of the coins, rolled out earlier this year by the Royal Canadian Mint, makes them lighter than previous versions and as a result parking meters are not recognizing the coins.

Finding change for the parking meter just became a little bit more difficult.

At a time when people are more likely to reach into their wallets and pull out plastic when paying for something, finding change to drop in a parking meter can sometimes be a hard feat to pull off.

Now, people putting that change into parking meters or pay and display machines in Niagara-on-the-Lake will have to look closely to ensure the loonies and toonies arent from 2012. The problem? New $1 and $2 coins do not work in parking meters or pay and display machines around town. In fact, its not just Niagara-on-the-Lake thats experiencing this problem. Other municipalities, like St. Catharines, and beyond, are facing a similar problem.

The new coins, dubbed as a new generation of one-dollar and two-dollar circulation coins by the Royal Canadian Mint, feature leading-edge security features combined with a multi-ply plated steel technology. The end result is meant to create a more resistant, long-lasting coin that will also increase cost-efficiencies for the federal government.

The new coins weigh less than previous years editions, whereas in the past one-dollar coins weighed 7.0 grams, they now weigh in at 6.27 grams. Two-dollar coins previously weighed 7.3 grams and now weigh 6.92 grams. On its website, the Mint said it has spent several years preparing vending equipment manufacturers and operators for the change and anticipated the great majority of vending equipment will accept the new coins by the time they enter circulation.

However, Niagara-on-the-Lake and other municipalities across the country are finding out thats simply not the case.

Stickers have been placed on parking meters and pay and display machines across town, notifying people not to use the new coins.

Dawn McInnis, Niagara-on-the-Lake communications and customer service project manager, said staff is working to address the problem. Replacing the machines isnt an option, she said noting it would cost an estimated $28,000 to do so. Meter manufacturers are being consulted, but in the meantime drivers are being reminded to avoid using the coins.

Aside from looking at the year on the coin, people will be able to recognize the coins by several visible changes. The one-dollar coin will still feature its iconic loon image, but now the loon will be joined by a maple leaf in a circle. The two-dollar coins will feature two laser marks of maple leaves, each within a circle, at the bottom of the side with the polar bear design. There will also be a virtual image of two maple leaves at the top of the coin, with a different image produced as the coin is turned from side to side. The words Canada and 2 dollars will be engraved along the coins outer edge.

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Meter mess also in NOTL

PLATTSBURGH Shelly Pitcher and her 12-year-old son, Chase, never pass up loose change.

"We have done it since Chase was real young," she said. "Anytime we saw a coin on the ground, we would pick it up."

Those nickels, dimes and pennies add up, especially around the holiday season. The two have enjoyed treating themselves with the free money they had collected.

"Eventually, we were finding quite a bit, so last year we came up with the idea to save it up for a whole year," Shelly said.

By the end of summer, Chase began thinking about the best way to spend the money. The Pitchers have always been animal lovers they have both cats and dogs as pets.

And since he has volunteered at local animal shelters, he thought it would be money well spent to donate everything they found to those places.

The pair called their effort Coins for Cats, Dollars for Dogs.

ACTIVE SEARCH

For the first time, they actively went out of their way to find coins. The two specifically went to the mall and other locations where people tend to drop money.

The goal was to reach $300, in order to split it evenly among the Adirondack Humane Society and St. John Feral Cat Fund, both in Plattsburgh, and the Elmore SPCA in Peru.

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Coin collectors for a cause

GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS--(Marketwire -05/15/12)- Tethys Petroleum Limited ("Tethys" or "the Company") (TPL.TO)(TPL.L) today announced its first quarter 2012 financial results. The results are underlined by a 45% increase in revenues over the first quarter of last year.

The Company reports financial results in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS").

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

The full Q1 Results together with a Management Discussion & Analysis have been filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Copies of the filed documents may be obtained via SEDAR at http://www.sedar.com or on Tethys' website at http://www.tethyspetroleum.com. The summary financial statements are attached to this press release.

The above highlights along with other operational and financial details will be further discussed in a scheduled conference call. Details of the conference call can be found below:

Conference Call:

A conference call will be held at 8:00 AM Eastern Standard Time 1:00 PM British Summer Time on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The North American conference call number is 800-261-3417 and the outside North America conference call number is +1 617-614-3673. The conference call code to use is 26577200 . Please call in about 10 minutes before the starting time in order to be patched into the call.

Webcast:

The call is being webcast and can be accessed at:

http://phoenix.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=213714&eventID=4773558

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Tethys Petroleum Limited: First Quarter 2012 Financial Results

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (PRWEB) May 16, 2012

These are the early days for Cayman Enterprise City, the Caribbeans only technology-based Special Economic Zone, and Jason Blick CECs young and dynamic Chief Executive Officer is brimming with optimism and excited about what he and his team are developing in the Cayman Islands. We are doing tremendously well, he said. There are 5 companies now established within the Zone, 17 are in the process of being set up and another 80 plus are in the pipeline at various stages of negotiation so I couldnt be happier.

It is the realization of a bold concept that Blick, a finance law attorney and expert on Special Economic Zones, envisioned while working with successful SEZs in the Middle East The Cayman Islands is a tax-neutral jurisdiction offering easy access to lucrative and emerging markets in North and Latin America. Using the experience, knowledge and insight gained from a decade in Dubai, Jason Blick set off in 2008 on a four-year search of the Caribbean region. The journey ended in the Cayman Islands. Cayman stood out, he said. It has a forward-thinking government, a very dynamic community, and a wealth of support services we never had in Dubai.

The Special Economic Zone, enabled by Cayman Islands legislation passed last year, opened for business in this January, a year after Blick and his team signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government. The project was fast-tracked with support from the government, the Civil Service and the private sector. CECs master campus which breaks ground this summer, will include an Internet& Technology Park, a Biotech Park, a Media Park, a Global Commodities Park, an International Academic Park and an Outsource Park. Companies licensed to operate in the zone are globally focused and not allowed to trade in Caymans domestic economy.

I was very grateful for the foresight and vision of the Premier, the Honorable McKeeva Bush, said Jason. Mr. Bush came to Dubai with us and saw for himself the success of the zones in the Middle East.

Blick moved to the Middle East from England fresh out of law school because he says it was the place to be in the 1990s. Dubai was a new frontier where the free zones were merging technology and media it was exhilarating! he says. He advised operators, partners, financiers and end-users of Special Economic Zones. He watched Dubai Internet City develop from a sandy wasteland into a thriving economic hub in ten short years, and he also witnessed the positive impact that these economic powerhouses had on local economies. Jason Blick is confident that CEC will create new jobs, new industries, new businesses and new careers in Cayman and boost and diversity its economy.

His experience and ties to the Middle East have led to a strategic partnership with Dubai Multiple Commodities Centre, strengthening trade relations between the United Arab Emirates and the Cayman Islands. In a highly competitive global financial market, relationships like this benefit investors, so companies established in both zones can quickly access new markets.

Cayman Enterprise City is the first special economic zone to house commodities teams and this is the only SEZ in the world that has a partnership with Dubai, he said. This is a reflection of their belief in our model and we are very excited about it.

Jason Blick is also confident that many of the Fortune 500 companies will establish a presence in Cayman Enterprise City. They are always watching for the next opportunity, and now because of the internet companies can conduct global sales from anywhere in the world, he says.

Why Cayman Enterprise City? Zero Taxes, responds the CEO emphatically when the question is posed. From US$12,492 a year you can quickly have your company established and operating in a tax-neutral environment. You dont have any import duties, there is no sales tax, no income taxes, no corporate taxes, no capital gains and you can have 100% ownership of your company, and it will be tax exempt for 50 years.

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Cayman Enterprise City - A Bold Vision, An Exciting Reality