Playoff Predictions 2008 – Round 1
Alright, those of you who don’t like hockey can skip this post. Those that do know it’s that time of year again. You may recall my Round 1 predictions last year all came true so let’s see if I can do it again.
Round 1
Montreal vs. Boston – Montreal
Pittsburg vs. Ottawa – Ottawa
Washington vs. Philadelphia – Philadelphia*
New Jersey vs. Rangers – Rangers
Detroit vs. Nashville – Detroit (buy a broom)
San Jose vs. Calgary – Calgary
Minnesota vs. Colorado – Minnesota*
Anaheim vs. Dallas – Dallas (Pronger must die)
Round 2
Montreal vs. Ottawa – Ottawa
Philadelphia vs. Rangers – Rangers
Detroit vs. Calgary – Calgary
Minnesota vs. Dallas – Dallas*
Round 3
Ottawa vs. Rangers – Ottawa
Calgary vs. Dallas – Calgary
Round 4
Ottawa vs. Calgary – Ottawa
* - total guess and what’s more, I don’t really care
The Narrative
The Montreal-Boston series will be great, an old rivalry to remind everyone of past playoff series, for me it will be the games of the early 90s.
The star players of Pittsburg will give Ottawa a run for their money as will Montreal; no part of their long stretch to the cup will be easy unless New York flakes out.
Pronger will get fined or suspended for something dirty and offensive that should end his career but won’t. Burt will score a goal and get a few assists making many Vancouverites happy but Pronger’s cheap play will get Dallas fired up to win.
Detroit will sweep Nashville and run up the score in several games making everyone think it’s an Octopus year but then their recent trend of great regular seasons with bad post-season showings will catch up to them and they’ll lose in the second round to Calgary in a narrow and hotly contested 7-game series – Red will be everyone’s favorite colour.
After that the commentators instead will focus on how great an all-Canadian final series would be and they’ll get their wish after being proven so wrong about their Red Wing bandwagoning when our nation’s capital will take it in 7 games. The cost of the clean-up of the resulting celebrations of both cities will be in the millions of dollars and subsequently boost GDP helping Ottawa resist the recession of the United States. Hockey ends up saving their economy from a downturn and all is right with the universe.
What? It could happen. Do you doubt the predictive power of Da CoW Code? Well I guess we’ll find out.
