First round of the Stanley Cup playoffs are here.

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Eastern Conference
#1 Tampa Bay vs. #8 N.Y. Islanders
#2 Boston vs. #7 Montreal
#3 Philadelphia vs. #6 New Jersey
#4 Toronto vs. #5 Ottawa

Western Conference
#1 Detroit vs. #8 Nashville
#2 San Jose vs. #7 St. Louis
#3 Vancouver vs. #6 Calgary
#4 Colorado vs. #5 Dallas

Eastern Conference
#1 Tampa Bay vs. #8 N.Y. Islanders-Tampa
#2 Boston vs. #7 Montreal-Boston
#3 Philadelphia vs. #6 New Jersey-New Jersey
#4 Toronto vs. #5 Ottawa-Ottawa

Western Conference
#1 Detroit vs. #8 Nashville-Nashville
#2 San Jose vs. #7 St. Louis-St.louis
#3 Vancouver vs. #6 Calgary-Vancouver
#4 Colorado vs. #5 Dallas-Colorado

Tampa Bay
montreal
NEW JERSEY F'N DEVILS
Toronto

Detroit
San Jose
Vancouver
Dallas

You can never pick Boston ...It's illegal isn't it

God hates Boston, I don't wanna make the big man mad.

You might as well flip a god damn coin with some of these series. Tampa must be pissed off playing Long Island. You fight all year to get home ice advantage during the playoffs, and you play a team that beat you in the season series 3-1-1

Oh yeah, my picks

N.Y
Boston
Toronto
N.J

Detroit
San Jose (sorry Curly)
Calgary
Colorado

All 3 of us are pegging the lightining to fall in the first round. Tampa Bay gets no respect, no respect at all

Only 1 series matters.

Nashville vs. Detroit

I'm of course going with my hometown Preds. They were either 3 and 3 or 3-2-1 against the Redwings this year. The problem may be that in Nashville 1/2 the fans will be Wings fans due to Saturn and the huge amount of Michiganders down here.

Go Nashville! Big upset in their first playoff appearance.

This is the first year I can rmember that both #1s have a legitimate chance of falling in the first round, based on who they are playing.

This year is gonna rock

I have been flip floping on nashville deroit. I think the wings will win, but I am rooting for the preds

Blues looked better than I thought they would.

One goal in two games? Did you think they would give up before even playing?

Please don't let the leafs play Philadelphia in the second round.

Originally posted by Creed
One goal in two games? Did you think they would give up before even playing?

I posted that Before the second game.

Go Blues!!!!!!!!!

Boston.

Leafs

I went 50/50.

The devils played really bad, boston blew a 3-1 series lead and the Lightining didn't choke like I thought they would.

I nailed the west though. The west was a lot easier to call, as it wasn't as close as the east

Originally posted by Curly Howard
Eastern Conference
#1 Tampa Bay vs. #8 N.Y. Islanders-Tampa w
#2 Boston vs. #7 Montreal-Boston l
#3 Philadelphia vs. #6 New Jersey-New Jersey l
#4 Toronto vs. #5 Ottawa-Ottawa l

Western Conference
#1 Detroit vs. #8 Nashville-Nashville l
#2 San Jose vs. #7 St. Louis-St.louis l
#3 Vancouver vs. #6 Calgary-Vancouver l
#4 Colorado vs. #5 Dallas-Colorado w

I think my picks were more wishful thinking than by the numbers.

Round 2
East
(1)Tampa Bay vs (7)Montreal---Tampa Bay
(3)Philidelpha vs (4)Toronto--Toronto

West
(1)Detroit vs (6)Calgary--Detroit
(2)San Jose vs (4)Colorado--San Jose

Fc Barcelona...