After a wild, dizzy, up-and-down season, our annual playoff predictions — featuring an anonymous executive, scout and coach — are in.
The 59th minute of the 1,312th and final game of the regular season changed two playoff matchups at the 11th hour — a fitting end to a wild, dizzy, up-and-down year in which no genuine Stanley Cup contender emerged. Consider: The had a chance to avoid a third consecutive playoff date with the if they’d just meekly gone away in a game that was theirs to lose.
” Executive: Carolina in 6 Coach: Carolina in six Scout: Carolina in 7 The consensus: Carolina advances Western Conference vs. Officially, Colorado will go in as the slight underdog after Winnipeg seized home-ice advantage by rattling off eight wins in a row to finish off the season and emerge from a March lapse.
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