Eastern Conference
Capitals vs Rangers
Flyers vs Devils
sorry for the crappy bracket apparently it's impossible to find one online
So let's start off with the Capitals and the Rangers. Most people including experts have the New York Rangers pegged to win this one, which is understandable since they finished on top of the Eastern Conference and have played stellar nearly the entire year where as the caps haven't been so good and were only just able to sneak into a playoff spot, but despite that I still have Washington pegged to win this series. Largely based off of the fact that Washington has eliminated New York 3 years running coupled with the incredible goaltending they have received from rookie goaltender Braden Holtby. I think it'll be a very close series between the two, but I believe the caps will go in there with more confidence then the rangers and that will be the difference in the end. So my prediction is Caps in 7 Games.
The second match up in the east is the Philidelphia Flyers and the New Jersey devils. In this series I'm going to have to agree with everyone else and pick the Flyers. mainly because neither team has received solid goaltending so it should just come down who ever can score more goals and at the moment I don't believe there is more offensive team in the playoffs then the Flyers, they scored 36 goals in the first series alone, by far the most of any team in the playoffs. So unless the Devils can receive some stellar goaltending from Martin Brodeur this series should be over pretty fast. My prediction is the Flyers in 5 games.
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