NHL Playoff Schedule 2015: TV, Live Stream Coverage Guide for Saturday's Matchup

By the time Saturday's first-round action wraps up in the 2015 NHL playoffs, three more teams may join the Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets on the list of those eliminated from the postseason.

The Anaheim Ducks swept aside the Jets in four games, while the New York Rangers knocked the Penguins out in five. The Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders and Nashville Predators are just 60 minutes away from being in the same company.

Four games are scheduled for Saturday, starting at 3 p.m. ET and running throughout the rest of the evening and night. Here's a look at the full slate, courtesy of NHL.com.

Time (ET)	Matchup	TV Info	Live Stream Info
3 p.m.	Washington Capitals at New York Islanders (Washington leads, 3-2)	NBC	NBC Sports Live Extra
6 p.m.	Detroit Red Wings at Tampa Bay Lightning (Series tied, 2-2)	NBCSN	NBC Sports Live Extra
8 p.m.	Nashville Predators vs. Chicago Blackhawks (Chicago leads, 3-2)	NBC	NBC Sports Live Extra
9 p.m.	Vancouver Canucks vs. Calgary Flames (Calgary leads, 3-2)	NBCSN	NBC Sports Live Extra

The only series that remains deadlocked is the Detroit Red Wings vs. Tampa Bay Lightning. The two teams have alternated wins and losses, with each one taking a game away from home. The Lightning still own home-ice advantage, so a win in Game 5 would be huge.

Tampa Bay arguably owns the momentum heading into Saturday night's meeting. The Lightning scored twice in the third period Thursday to overturn a two-goal deficit and then found the game-winner in overtime.

"On the bench, the guys were never really down, even though it was 2-0 and we weren't getting chances, it was a really positive vibe on the bench with everybody," said Lightning head coach Jon Cooper, per Bryan Burns of NHL.com. "I think we'd gone probably eight periods in this building without scoring, but as soon as we got that one, we grew a couple inches on the bench. It was like a weight off our shoulders."

The series has had such rapid swings that nothing is out of the question in Game 5.

While neither the Red Wings nor Lightning can book a place in the second round, the same can't be said of the Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks and Calgary Flames.

Many eyes will be on the Blackhawks, who were considered one of the top contenders for the Stanley Cup heading into the postseason. According to Mark Potash of the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago doesn't lose in series-clinching Game 6s under coach Joel Quenneville:

The Predators will also be down a key piece on defense. The team announced Friday that Shea Weber will miss at least the rest of the first round. Between that and playing on the road in a potential clincher in Chicago, Nashville is teetering on the brink of an early exit.

Aside from the importance of the Islanders fighting for their postseason lives, New York's Game 6 with the Capitals is even more notable for the fact that it might be the franchise's last inside the Nassau Coliseum.

While nobody will argue that the venue is a marvel of modern architecture, many hockey fans spent their formative years in the Nassau Coliseum, so the arena will hold a special place in their hearts forever. Writing for Vice Sports, Wendy Thurm reminisced about simpler—albeit slightly more politically incorrect—times:

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But in the 70s, it was the fans who needed protection from the players. This was the era of the Broad Street Bullies, the nickname bestowed on the Philadelphia Flyers for their aggressive of play. I can close my eyes and picture the petite woman who sat two rows in front of us standing on her chair, screaming every epithet then invented at the Flyers during a brawl on the ice, and some Flyers players deciding they'd heard enough and climbing over the bench and into the stands to take her on. I learned a lot about cursing and sexual positions during those games. I was 11 at the time. Maybe 12. I was hooked.

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Whenever the Islanders finally do move into the more spacious, comfortable Barclays Center, it will truly be an end of an era for the NHL.

In addition, who doesn't want to see the Islanders and Rangers clash in the second round? Imagine how raucous the Coliseum would get for an all-New York playoff series. That would be a true send-off for the arena.