Prager's Brackets 2017!

Reminder, picks in by 8PM tomorrow (Wednesday). I have two sets of picks via PMs plus my own, so 7 more to go.

Sens in 6

Caps in 6

Preds in 7

Oilers in 7

I sent my picks in by PM

Flo The Action wrote:I sent my picks in by PM

That, you did. Yes.

Ev wrote:Sens in 6

Caps in 6

Preds in 7

Oilers in 7

This never happens, but we picked the same teams.

Sens in 7
Pens in 6
Nashville in 6
Anaheim in 6

Sens in 7
Wash in 6
Stl in 6
Ducks in 5

Sent you my picks, but just for transparency....

East:
OTT7
WSH7

West:
ANA6
NSH6

lol I like how no one dares to pick the Rangers....they're a good team.

Everyone picking the Caps? Why, because of Holtby?

Because of a lot of things. Washington is a solid team top to bottom and they have the edge in net with Holtby. Yes Fleury won a cup but we all know he's not the number 1 goalie there. Also, Ovechkin is finally putting the team first.

Where's the pool standings to start round 2? Please.

East:
OTT 5
PIT 6

West:
EDM 7
NSH 6

Bold pick there for Ottawa. Looking to go big or go home Tim?

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Where's the pool standings to start round 2?  Please.

Posted earlier on in the thread:
http://www.gmhockey.com/t6511p45-prager-s-brackets-2017#434575

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Bold pick there for Ottawa.  Looking to go big or go home Tim?

I have some ground to make up. Let's kill them Rags.

PTFlea wrote:Everyone picking the Caps?  Why, because of Holtby?

No, because of Fleury

Penguins have given up the most shots per game of all teams in the post-season. They aren't doing very well on D with Letang out. With all his points, Malkin is not very good at suppressing the other team's offense (10th on the team in unblocked shot attempts %). Mind you, that's still better than Crosby, at 13th!

If this continues I don't think Fleury will be able to survive.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:Bold pick there for Ottawa.  Looking to go big or go home Tim?

You won't believe how close I came to picking OTT4. Almost talked my way into it. In the end, I changed from my initial OTT7 to OTT6. I used to hate picking a team to win on the road but it happens way more than you think. Ottawa PP is *much* better on the road for some stupid reason, and Andy loves playing at MSG.

That said, I would not be surprised if it's over in 5 or goes to triple OT in game 7.

My picks (had them in a while back when every one started posting them here):

OTT6
WAS7
NSH6
ANA7

I think that just leaves Hobiesens. Got everyone else's.