Nhl thread

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My picks:

EAST

Ottawa over Montreal
Tampa Bay over Detroit
Islanders over Washington
And I'm picking the upset... Pittsburgh over New York


WEST

Minnesota over St. Louis
Nashville over Chicago
Winnipeg over the Ducks
Calgary over Vancouver

[El Kabong]

I got a surprise my team is not the 3 seed, we're the 2 seed...huge win last night then I guess. I'll keep yall updated on my hobby lol, I know you guys care.


And my picks
EAST

Habs over Sens
Tampa Bay over Detroit
Caps upset Isles
NYR sweep the Pens


WEST

Minnesota over St. Louis
Nashville over Chicago
Ducks over Jets
Calgary over Vancouver

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Fuck yeah Playoffs start tonight, I don't know about you guys but I'm pumped as a motherfucker

GO SENS GO

[El Kabong]

Montreal up 1 on the Sens
Isles up 1 on the Caps
Flames up 1 on Vancouver

and the best match last night the Blackhawks came back from 3 down to win in double OT to go up 1 on the Preds.

[Beanflicker]

It was a great night of hockey. Sens/Montreal was VERY fast paced, very chippy... it's going to be a very exciting, rough series. PK Subban got thrown out for a slash, a lot of people thought it was a bad call, I thought it was fair, it was a baseball swing that caused an injury so what can you do?

I was switching back and forth between that and the Isles/Caps game... Caps were a little flat but I thought they played ok. Ovechkin played his ass off, 8 shots on net and he was actually back checking and hitting anything that moved. Another good series but I felt the Islanders were a bad match up for them.

Caught Preds/Hawks, great 1st for the Preds and great 2nd for the Hawks... could have went either way. Gonna be a tight series IMO, still taking the Preds.

Missed Canucks/Flames, just caught the HLs.

[El Kabong]

Habs vs Sens could really get nasty depending on Ottawa's response to how rough Montreal were. I think Subban got a raw deal getting a misconduct for that slash, he should have gotten a penalty no doubt, but it wasn't bad enough to toss him.

Isles vs Caps will be interesting to see if the Caps can get anything to fall for them.

Hawks vs Preds was just goalies falling apart left and right!

[El Kabong]

Good games last night NYR vs Pens was a good game

[El Kabong]

And my picks
EAST

Habs over Sens
Tampa Bay over Detroit
Caps upset Isles
NYR sweep the Pens


WEST

Minnesota over St. Louis
Nashville over Chicago
Ducks over Jets
Calgary over Vancouver

I picked pretty well so far. Missed the call on the Preds & Blackhawks though...every other series I either got right or is still open to be right.

That Pittsburgh team is going to get blown up....got to have more than JUST Crosby out there. Malkin is great when he's healthy, but that team was beaten up before the playoffs and just never recovered.

[El Kabong]

On a NON-playoff note: As a Hurricanes fan I would NOT mind trading for Malkin. We've got a good draft pick lined up, but we've also got the Staal brothers who I'd be open to trading. We've already got Semin and if Malkin was to come over I think they would do great on a line together. Who do you think will land Geno?


I've damn near nailed the playoffs especially if Tampa beats the Red Wings

[Beanflicker]

That Pittsburgh team is going to get blown up....got to have more than JUST Crosby out there. Malkin is great when he's healthy, but that team was beaten up before the playoffs and just never recovered.

I think they're better off dealing Malkin. He an amazing talent but I think it's shown that having your hopes tied up with one or two superstars just doesn't cut it. If they could ditch Malkin for pieces to build a strong 2nd and 3rd line, I think it'd be in their best interest to do it.

[El Kabong]

HUGE game tonight Tampa Bay vs Detroit game 7....I kind of want Detroit to win as I'd like to see Datsyuk work his magic more. Kronwall being out is not going to help, but we'll just wait and see.

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I want Tampa to win simply because they have a much better playoff record against the Habs, who I want to see eliminated immediately.

[El Kabong]

....oh and fyi I had my second to last game of the season in the losers bracket for my beer league team. We won the game pretty handily and I had 2 assists playing defense. I abhor playing defense when I can't check.....it takes all the fun out of playing defense!!! I used to line people up and Scott Stevens their asses!!! But I did play a fairly good game, stopped a few rushes, hit some long outlet passes, but my one real attempt on goal I scuffed a slapshot . I'll be signing up for the summer season and maybe, just maybe, we can win the league then albeit without our goalie, backup goalie, and a few of our better players.


I still think the finals will be NYR and Anaheim although Chicago vs NYR would be great to see as well.

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My picks:

EAST

Ottawa over Montreal
Tampa Bay over Detroit
Islanders over Washington
And I'm picking the upset... Pittsburgh over New York


WEST

Minnesota over St. Louis
Nashville over Chicago
Winnipeg over the Ducks
Calgary over Vancouver

My picks took a massive shit, 0/3 so far in East (could be 0/4) and 2/4 in the West.

As far as Carolina... I'd say keep the Staals, hold on to the young talent like Skinner, Rask, Lindholm, Faulk, hold onto Cam Ward who's still an elite goalie, and take a flame thrower to everything else, especially Semin.