The West, my friends, is best. Or it sure as heck seems that way as the playoffs get set to begin.
With apologies to the Penguins and Canadiens, the four-horse race shaping up in the Western Conference promises to be a good ol' fashioned shootout.
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OK, so you've got the fridge loaded with beer, a couple months worth of peanuts and pretzels crammed into the cupboard and you've told the better half you'll be up from the basement for a kiss, and a little sunlight, sometime in June.
So now it's time to figure out a plan of attack in making your fantasy hockey picks for the 2008 NHL playoffs.
Some interesting storylines are transpiring even before the first puck is dropped on the Eastern Conference side of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Did Ovechkin and the Capitals burn themselves out trying to corral the Southeast Conference title? Can the Bruins actually beat the Canadiens, even once? Are the Senators poised to give the Penguins all they can handle? Who will be the last one standing in what is sure to be a bruising series between the Rangers and Devils?
Written by: Paul Kukla
I hate making predictions of any kind, yet I promised you in my previous blog I would review the teams that will make the 2nd season, the one that counts, you know, the playoffs. I start blogging here at Hockey.com and all of the sudden I fall into the "trap" of making predictions.
