Before I start, a warning. There might be a certain feeling of smugness emanating from this post. Just letting you know ahead of time.
As always, let me start by recapping the previous round.
In the second round I picked:
The Penguins over the Senators. The Penguins won. I was right.
The Bruins over the Rangers. The Bruins won. I was right.
The Blackhawks over the Red Wings. The Blackhawks won. I was right.
The Kings over the Sharks. The Kings won. I was right.
Does anyone else see a pattern here? A thread that consistently runs through the four picks I made prior to the second round? Oh, I see it now. I picked them all correctly. Yes, I got them all. Wow. Usually the second round is the one that kills me, but this year I was four for four. Let’s also gaze back at my first round predictions. Well, what do you know. I picked seven out of eight first round winners. That makes me 11 out of 12 for the playoffs so far. Golly gee, I almost look like some one who knows what he’s talking about, eh?
That probably ends now, because I think I am going to pick both underdogs. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
Now for my third round predictions!
The Penguins vs The Bruins. Oh crap. I was afraid of this. I really didn’t think the Bruins could beat the Rangers and wouldn’t you know it they won pretty easily. Is there any chance we could be that lucky again? The Rangers were a good team. The Penguins are a friggin’ insanely awesome team. No one in their right mind is going to seriously predict that the Bruins can win this series. That means I’m out of my mind because that’s just what I’m doing. Granted I’m a homer and no one reads these posts anyway so it’s not like some high roller in Vegas is bouncing around in his chair waiting for me to hit Publish so he can see what that fat red head in Massachusetts thinks about anything (even though I am 11 out of 12 this year).
The Bruins have a clear edge on defense, and in toughness, and maybe in goaltending too. Unfortunately that’s not going to cut it against the all-star team known as the Penguins. Still, I’m banking on Bergeron and Chara and Tuukka and Torey Freakin’ Krug to carry us to the Stanley Cup Finals. Jaromir Jagr will, when faced with his old team, find his scoring mojo and that will inspire Tyler Seguin to not suck anymore and Milan Lucic will be so sick of seeing Pierre McGuire’s face between the benches that he will start pounding all Pittsburgh players into the ice and Matt Cooke will make a move to stand up to the mighty Looch only to catch sight of Marc Savard in the stands pointing at him with the most evil smile ever seen on his face which will distract him just long enough for Shawn Thornton to hit him so hard that his mother ends up in the hospital and the destruction of Cooke will scare the Penguins so completely that they will roll over and play dead just like the Rangers did.
Hey… it could happen.
The Blackhawks vs The Kings. Great. Now what do I do. The two teams I was rooting for in the West are both in the Conference Finals. So who do I pick? The Blackhawks have been the favorite since this awful abortion of a lock out shortened almost season began. The Kings though… they were my team last year when the Bruins went out in the first round. Part of me wants to pick Chicago simply due to the possibility of a Boston/Chicago original six match up in the finals. Still… the Kings were my team last year, and Quick looks pretty much unstoppable right now. There, Jonathan Quick decides it for me. I’m picking the Kings.
The four teams that are left in the playoffs right now are also the last four teams to win the Stanley Cup. I am predicting that the trend will continue and the two teams that advance to the Stanley Cup Finals will be the two most recent Cup winners.
Go Bruins
Go Kings
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