It’s another year and another round of playoff round predictions. It seems that I play attention to hockey at the beginning of the season but that attention starts to waver towards the end of the season (it could be because the Leafs are eliminated by then, but this year’s no excuse). Then I can’t really do predictions well, and just end up defaulting to the favorites. This year’s no different:

East

  • Pittsburgh over New York Islanders easily
  • Montreal over Ottawa
  • New York Rangers will upset Washington
  • Boston over Toronto

West

  • Chicago over Minnesota
  • Anaheim over Detroit
  • Vancover over San Jose
  • LA Kings will upset St Louis

So 6 favorites will win and 2 underdogs might surprise me.