Who do you think will hoist the Stanley Cup this season?

[Wild Thing]

Now that the NHL has entered into December we have seen a good sample of each NHL team. Is Edmonton and the Blue Jackets for real? What team that is off to a fast start will bomb? Will there be a slow start team that takes off ? Here are my predictions, what are yours?

Eastern Conference

#1. Penguins
#2 Canadians
#3 Rangers
#4 Lightning
#5 Capitals
#6 Bruins
#7 Senators
#8 Flyers

Western Conference

#1 Sharks
#2 Blackhawks
#3 Blues
#4 Wild
#5 Ducks
#6 Predators
#7 Kings
#8 Oilers

Round 1 Match Ups

Penguins over Flyers
Canadians over Senators
Bruins over Rangers
Capitals over Lightning
Sharks over Oilers
Blackhawks over Kings
Predators over Blues
Wild over Ducks

Round 2 Match Ups

Penguins over Capitals
Bruins over Canadians
Sharks over Wild :(
Blackhawks over Predators

Round 3 Match Ups

Penguins over Bruins
Blackhawks over Sharks

Stanley Cup Finals

Blackhawks over Penguins

[Josh]

I think the Capitals could go deep and win it all this year. They've had some bad luck this season but if they can put it together they're a huge threat.

[Wild Thing]

I think the Capitals could go deep and win it all this year. They've had some bad luck this season but if they can put it together they're a huge threat.

The Capitals definitely have a strong team pretty much everywhere.

[Alfie11]

Really hard to say. There's no team in West that seems that great. In the East, Montreal or New York look pretty good but I can't see them doing it.

I havw a feeling it won't be a team that finishes first in their division. Washington is a good pick.

[Wild Thing]

Really hard to say. There's no team in West that seems that great. In the East, Montreal or New York look pretty good but I can't see them doing it.

I havw a feeling it won't be a team that finishes first in their division. Washington is a good pick.

Doesn't it always seem to come down to which Goalie gets hot during the playoffs?

[Jasmine]

http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.aspx?Per%2BHockey%2BReference%252c%2Ba%2Bteam%2Bthat%2Bhas%2Bnever%2Bwon%2Ba%2BCup%2Bhas%2Bthe%2Bbest%2Bchance%2Bof%2Bwinning%2Bit%2Bthis%2Byear&id=596025

[Josh]

http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.asp...year&id=596025

I love how their explanation for this is basically "stranger things have happened".

[Matt the Aussie]

There's a lot of teams (Sens included) that are being driven by goalie performance. If hot goaltending continues, they will be successful.

I'd love to get the Habs first round, honestly.

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

There's a lot of teams (Sens included) that are being driven by goalie performance. If hot goaltending continues, they will be successful.

I'd love to get the Habs first round, honestly.

Ideally, teams want to get the Habs in the second round, which is where they tend to fizzle out. They're generally a pretty good first round team, but second round on is where they've run out of gas because they typically are undersized and tend to be beat up.

[Josh]

Ideally, teams want to get the Habs in the second round, which is where they tend to fizzle out. They're generally a pretty good first round team, but second round on is where they've run out of gas because they typically are undersized and tend to be beat up.

Good point. I wonder if this would still hold true though, what with Radulov, Shaw, and Weber on the team now..

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

Good point. I wonder if this would still hold true though, what with Radulov, Shaw, and Weber on the team now..

Problem is Weber runs out of gas hard by the end of year. He really was a no show in his last few playoff games last season.

[KitKat]

I think the teams with the best chance all come out of the east and they re the Rangers, Penguins, and Capitals.

[DevilsFan]

No New Jersey Devils. Don't know if they will raise the Stanley Cup over there heads after it all, but they will make it.

[matchesmalone]

Maybe the Sens?