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Posted: 4/16/2009 6:45:04 PM EDT

The NHL playoffs kicked off yesterday. So, which one do you pick to go all the way? Or which two teams will be in the final games to win the most coveted and historic trophy in Pro sports?

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:45:26 PM EDT

[#1]

Detroit FTW

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:47:31 PM EDT

[#2]

A guy can hope can't I?

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:49:28 PM EDT

[#3]

What is NHL????? Football season is still months away.

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:51:42 PM EDT

[#4]

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:56:18 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7114/416413493.gif

A guy can hope can't I?

You guys lost today.

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:57:35 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
The NHL playoffs kicked off yesterday. So, which one do you pick to go all the way? Or which two teams will be in the final games to win the most coveted and historic trophy in Pro sports?

http://nhlpa93.nhl94.com/teams/images/det.gif

No doubt in my mind.

Wings rock.

HH

Posted: 4/16/2009 6:59:15 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7114/416413493.gif

A guy can hope can't I?

You guys lost today.

thanks for reminding me

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:01:01 PM EDT

[#8]

Pens!!!!

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:01:08 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

The NHL playoffs kicked off yesterday. So, which one do you pick to go all the way? Or which two teams will be in the final games to win the most coveted and historic trophy in Pro sports?

The avatar says it all

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:03:50 PM EDT

[#10]

New York Islanders I guess

They've won a bunch of cups

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:03:52 PM EDT

[#11]

Red Army Team, Red Things, Current Stanley Cup holders, those guys from De' twa

Scorpion34

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:05:10 PM EDT

[#12]

Not the biggest fan of hockey, but I'll root for the Capitols.

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:07:07 PM EDT

[#13]

C-A-P-S

CAPS!!!
CAPS!!!
CAPS!!!

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:07:16 PM EDT

[#14]

PENS!

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:07:18 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Red Army Team, Red Things, Current Stanley Cup holders, those guys from De' twa

Scorpion34

eh? There are no Russians playing on the Red Wings.

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:11:02 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Not the biggest fan of hockey, but I'll root for the Capitols.

Not with Jose Three-or-more in net.

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:14:18 PM EDT

[#17]

Another Red Wings fan here.

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:16:47 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7114/416413493.gif

A guy can hope can't I?

You guys lost today.

thanks for reminding me

It actually kinda sucks that you're team is playing mine, since I wanted to root for the blue jackets to do good since it was their first playoffs. Now I gotta root for ya to lose. LOL.

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:18:21 PM EDT

[#19]

BRUINS "WE'RE ONLY ALLIES WITH CANADA ON PAPER"

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:23:23 PM EDT

[#20]

REDWINGS!! 97-98 ALL OVER AGAIN!!

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:23:54 PM EDT

[#21]

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:25:38 PM EDT

[#22]

http://nhl-playoff-tickets.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/boston-bruins-playoff-tickets.png

Posted: 4/16/2009 7:28:38 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
PENS!

Posted: 4/18/2009 4:58:10 PM EDT

[#24]

2 games til the next opponent.

Posted: 4/18/2009 5:00:18 PM EDT

[#25]

My Picks:

Round 1

Bruins over Habs

Pens over Phili

Carolina over Devils

Ranger over Caps

Round 1

Ducks over Sharks

Blackhawks over Flames

Canucks over Blues

Wings over CBJ

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Round 2

Pens over Bruins

Canes over Rangers

Round 2

Blackhawks over Ducks

Canucks over Wings

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Round 3

Canes over Pens

Round 3

Blackhawks over Canucks

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Canes Win the Stanley Cup!

Posted: 4/18/2009 5:01:08 PM EDT

[#26]

Posted: 4/18/2009 5:07:34 PM EDT

[#27]

Posted: 4/18/2009 5:17:39 PM EDT

[#28]

Posted: 4/18/2009 5:31:28 PM EDT

[#29]

Wings. Duh.

Posted: 4/28/2009 6:19:55 PM EDT

[#30]

My buddy is a HUGE Sharks fan, I have been giving him a hard time about his #1 seed team losing to the #8 seed Ducks.

They are always favored to win it all, and NEVER seem to pull the trigger. Ha ha.

Posted: 4/28/2009 6:43:45 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

My buddy is a HUGE Sharks fan, I have been giving him a hard time about his #1 seed team losing to the #8 seed Ducks.

They are always favored to win it all, and NEVER seem to pull the trigger. Ha ha.

The Sharks are a good regular season team but they don't have what it takes to win in the playoffs. It's been the same story for years now. They remind me of the Ottawa Senators of a few years ago, when everybody kept picking them to win the Cup and they failed every year in the playoffs.

Posted: 4/28/2009 7:23:34 PM EDT

[#32]

As long as it's not anybody from Detroit, or Boston, I'm ok with anybody else winning.

Posted: 4/28/2009 7:31:36 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
C-A-P-S

CAPS!!!
CAPS!!!
CAPS!!!

That game tonight was a little too exciting!

Now, to dispatch the Pens.

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:55:03 AM EDT

[#34]

Posted: 4/29/2009 7:57:01 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:00:46 AM EDT

[#36]

Quebec Nordiques or the Winnipeg Jets...oh, snap!

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:04:12 AM EDT

[#37]

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:16:12 AM EDT

[#38]

I am so looking forward to that whiny bitch, Crosby, getting his ass handed to him by Ovechkin in round 2.

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:20:32 AM EDT

[#39]

the beard is back

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:26:59 AM EDT

[#40]

Blues?

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:31:12 AM EDT

[#41]

Caps looking good last night

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:42:44 AM EDT

[#42]

The only good thing Detroit has is the Wings.

That being said, I hope they lose miserably. Not holding my breath though...

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:53:28 AM EDT

[#43]

Let's Go Pens!

Posted: 4/29/2009 8:55:02 AM EDT

[#44]

The Ducks have a hot goalie right now and they have a ton of Stanley Cup Vets on that team. I think Detroit is in for a handful. I like Pittsburgh in the East.

Posted: 4/29/2009 9:39:28 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
The Ducks have a hot goalie right now and they have a ton of Stanley Cup Vets on that team. I think Detroit is in for a handful. I like Pittsburgh in the East.

Detroit isn't going to play like the choker Sharks, the Wings will park Holmstrom, Franzen, and Cleary right in front of Hiller from the get go, also the other Wings like Hossa, Datsyuk, Zetterberg,etc will be going to the net hard. Virtually the entire Wings team is Stanley Cup experienced and they do not make a lot of mistakes, they do the little things which Sharks did not do. The Wings coach Mike Babcock makes sure the Wings stay focused, one hell of a coach and the Ducks now it as he once coached them into the Stanley Cup.

If the Ducks take a ton of penalties they are doomed, Detroit is too good on the power power as they have two steller PP units. Personally the Wings are too stacked for the Ducks, the Wings first 2 lines are as good as any in the league and extremely talented defensively plus the Wings will roll another 2 lines. The Wings tend to wear teams down this way, Pronger and Niedemyer just can't play that sort of minutes to cover all those lines.

The Ducks are pretty much a one line team, which means they are going to be covered by either Datsyuk/Hossa/Holmstrom or Zetterberg/Franzen/Cleary on the front end and the back end will see Lidstrom/Rafalski or Lidstrom/Ericsson. Ericsson may be a rookie but damn that 6'5" rookie plays like a 10 year veteran, he plays a lot like Lidstrom in that he makes smart simple plays and is a tremendous passer. Not bad for a Center converted to Dman - I think Scotty Bowman had him changed - Scotty did it to another famous player in the past none other than Larry Robinson.