Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:40 pm  

The 1st round is completed and there were a few shocks in the eastern conference with Montreal beating Washington the biggest but the west was as expected.I went 4 for 8 in my predictions so here my thoughts on the 2nd round.

Eastern conference

Pittsburgh v Montreal
Halak was top class against the Caps but I think the Pens sneak through this one.
Pens win in 6

Boston v Philadelphia
Both teams beat a higher seed in the 1st round.I think if Boston can get Savard back they will win.

Boston win in 7

Western conference

San Jose v Detroit
With Thornton once again missing so far in the playoffs and Nabakov not playing at his best I can only see one winner in this series.

Detroit in 5

Chicago v Vancouver
I may be a bit biased but this is the best matchup in the 2nd round.After last seasons playoffs and this seasons games these 2 teams don't like each other and a big rivalry is building between them.I can see this going all the way to game 7.

Chicago win in 7

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:11 am  

Pens in 5, Sid to shine.
Boston in 7, hard one to predict for me so I've gone for home ice.
Sharks in 6, I write this knowing the Sharks have just won game 1. Thornton did more in 1 period than the whole series against the Avs. Sharks still getting some iffy power plays.
Nuks in 6, as much as I would like to see a hawks v Pens final I think this may be a series where Luongo wins/steals it for the nuks.

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Sun May 02, 2010 1:26 pm  

Bruins beat the Flyers 5-4 in OT with Marc Savard getting the winner

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Sun May 02, 2010 7:07 pm  

94#Dennis_the_menace_Maxw wrote:

Bruins beat the Flyers 5-4 in OT with Marc Savard getting the winner

Cracking game.

[Chris71]

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Tue May 04, 2010 3:57 pm  

Hawks finally wake up after 4 periods of the series with the Nucks taking it 4-2 after yet again being 2 goals down after the 1st period. Hawks maybe now realised that the work ethic they had all season is still needed in the play-offs.

Looks like we have a series on our hands with this one as the verbals were getting cranked up a little in game 2.

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Tue May 04, 2010 4:11 pm  

Great finish to the Hawks game last night.They started getting in Luongo's face more and it paid off as he started his flapping routine trying to get penalties but it only ended up giving Versteeg an open net for the winning goal.

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Tue May 04, 2010 4:27 pm  

Bruins go 2-0 up in the series by winning 3-2

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Thu May 06, 2010 7:13 pm  

It took until the 3rd game but the hatred finally came out between the Hawks and the Canucks last night as Chicago won 5-2 to go 2-1 up in the series.

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Fri May 07, 2010 7:47 am  

It looks like the Bruins are going to account for Philly.....if someone could sort that Carcillo out while they're doing it, that would be great

[Chris71]

Re: NHL Season 09/10 : Fri May 07, 2010 10:00 am  

DAR130 wrote:

It took until the 3rd game but the hatred finally came out between the Hawks and the Canucks last night as Chicago won 5-2 to go 2-1 up in the series.

It was bubbling up in Game 2 with the verbals. Good win for the Hawks and another tonight in Game 4 should hopefully mean lights out for Vancouver after Game 5.

As long as the Hawks use their brains and speed and take the game to Vancouver again they should get the win, plus Luongo showed signs of being rattled by constant pressure and started to flap.