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Experience is apparently the difference-maker and is probably a prime factor in the Red Wings‘ Stanley Cup victory. Whenever possible in the series, the old men from Detroit took early leads and then sat back and played safe and boring (but effective) hockey. It clearly frustrated the (normally) high-flying run ‘n’ gun youngsters [...]

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I’d like to forget that the previous round happened, since I went 0-4 in my predictions. Where did I go wrong? Well, the media will probably blame 20 year-old phenom Carey Price, but the Habs‘ high-flying offence that scored with the greatest of ease during the regular season, began to falter in the [...]

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Now that the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs are in the books, let’s see how accurate my predictions were. I correctly chose Montreal, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Detroit and San Jose to win their first round matchups. Dallas and the Rangers were surprises, resulting in me going 6-2. Allow me to [...]

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The first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is almost complete, with only a handful of series lingering (go Flames!). At this point, the sports writers and commentators whip out what I call “the historical ass chomper” statistic - inevitably history should come back to bite a given team in the ass.
Take, for example, [...]

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It all starts tonight. The first day of the NHL playoffs signals the beginning of one of my favourite times in any given year. Here’s the first round matchups and my predictions are in bold.
East
Montreal vs Boston
Washington vs Philadelphia
Pittsburgh vs Ottawa
New Jersey vs New York Rangers
West
Minnesota vs Colorado
Detroit vs Nashville
San Jose vs Calgary [...]

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