![]() #12 - Los Angeles Kings vs San Jose Sharks #11 - Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings #9 - Pittsburgh Penguins vs Ottawa Senators We'll keep updating the chart as the series go on, and will invite you to go ahead and make your picks in the ensuing series as well all the way to the Stanley Cup Final, where along with your pick for the winner we'll also be asking you to make picks for the series score and series game-winning-goal scorer as the tiebreaker. NHL Playoffs Bracket Rd 2 and pick the winners for the series marked #9 through to #12. just look at the second round matchups in the Carolina will push through to the league semifinals.EDIT: The leaderboard is updated, and it's Frank Reich Revolution leading the pack with 7 of 8 picks from the first round, with only the Caps letting him down! The two they lost were tied going into regulation. Carolina largely dominated Florida this season, winning six of eight games. However, the Hurricanes may simply be too tough for Florida. The Lightning may have a litany of superstars who know what it takes to hoist the trophy, but Florida has won six straight and sports a balanced offense with six players who have scored 14 or more goals. Tampa Bay Lightning series is a matchup between a hot, upstart team and the defending Stanley Cup champions. Carolina will simply be too tough for a Preds team that only outscored its opponents by two goals this year. ![]() The Preds may have ended their regular season with a pair of wins against their first-round playoff opponent, the Carolina Hurricanes, but they lost the first six against them in this regular-season series. In the end, McDavid is the best of them all, and the bet is on the league point leader (104 in 55 games) to carry the Oilers through. The series won't be short on superstars, with Oilers forwards Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and defenseman Darnell Nurse sharing the same ice with Maple Leafs stars Auston Matthews and Mitchell Marner. That should set up a dramatic Maple Leafs-Oilers series to go to the semifinals. The Edmonton Oilers also face a reeling team in the Winnipeg Jets, who are 2-9 in their last 11 games. The Toronto Maple Leafs arguably have the easiest first-round draw, as they face a Montreal Canadiens team that has won just 24 of 56 regular-season games and enters the playoffs on a five-game losing streak. Pittsburgh, with an NHL-leading 196 goals per game, should have the firepower to get it done. This is a coin-flip pick and one where the ultimate choice will be the team with home-ice advantage in the Caps.Īs for the East final, the Pens have been unstoppable at home (22-4-1), and the return of Malkin can only help overcome a tough Capitals offense. The Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins are prime candidates to go to seven games in the first round, especially after splitting their eight-game regular-season series evenly. The other first-round matchup will be a gauntlet. The Pittsburgh Penguins, meanwhile, have won nine of 11 games, and they'll have a healthy Evgeni Malkin for the playoffs after he missed 23 regular-season matchups. The New York Islanders enter the playoffs having lost four of five games, including two to a Buffalo Sabres team that finished with a league-low 37 points.
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