Thursday, April 29, 2010

NHL: Conference SemiFinals Preview

First a review of my picks from Round 1:

PICK: Washington over Montreal in 5. ACTUAL: Montreal stuns em in 7. Halak!
PICK: NJ over Philly in 7. ACTUAL: NJ fizzles out in five.
PICK: Boston over Buffalo in 6. ACTUAL: Boston over Buffalo in 6!!!
PICK: Pitt over Ottawa in 6. ACTUAL: Pitt over Ottawa in 6!!!

Eastern conference: 2 picks exactly correct, and 2 picks way wrong.

PICK: SJ over Col in 4. ACTUAL: San Jose struggled, but still won in 6.
PICK: Chi over Nashville in 6. ACTUAL: Chicago in 6!!!
PICK: LA over Vancouver in 7. ACTUAL: Vancouver over LA in 6, but this series could have gone either way.
PICK: Det over Phoenix in 5. ACTUAL: We struggled, but won in 7...

Western conference: 3/4 teams, and one series correct.

On to the Conference SemiFinals:

(4)Pittsburgh vs (8) Montreal:
Can Montreal summon the magic and knock off another team? No... Sorry... Pittsburgh in 5. (Although there's part of me that wants to say Halak is 2003 Giguere...). But not...

(6)Boston vs (7) Philadelphia:
Rough defensive series. Philly plays good playoff hockey... Philly in 6.

(2) Chicago vs (3) Vancouver
Don't have much of a read on these two teams. I'll pick Chicago in 6 because of home team advantage and because Vancouver came real close to losing against LA.

(1) San Jose vs (5) Detroit
Ah yes, our good friends San Jose. We beat them in 2008 when we won the cup (I think?). And they are the masters of the playoff choke.... As we nearly saw in Round one. Detroit in 6.

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