Board 8 > NHL Playoffs Confidence Challenge (now without purge)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Vegas still sucks
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I like how they put Pierre on all the Pens games, so its easier for real fans to avoid the suck
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Caps not dead yet!
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Go Flyers
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Should we just say Pittsburgh for a threepeat?
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All the people picking Toronto are somehow still alive
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I hope the Leafs pull it off so that I only lose out on my +1 and 2
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A Toronto win would make my only miss the Kings at +1
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On one hand, Boston winning means I only lose out on my +1 pick.

On the other, I have Toronto in the Finals in my bracket challenge with my friends.

I am conflicted. =/

of course no hockey games on my day off
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Penguins +8
Lightning +6
Predators +4
Golden Knights +2
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oops I messed up on one
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Boston gon get it done
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Hope everybody's getting ready for the next round of picking... Round 2 starts tomorrow night!!

Wow, this next round is TOUGH.

Lightning +8
Jets +6
Capitals +4
Sharks +2
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+8 Capitals
+6 Lightning
+4 Golden Knights
+2 Jets
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+8 Lightning
+6 Sharks
+4 Predators
+2 Penguins
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+8 Lightning
+6 Penguins
+4 Golden Knights
+2 Jets

I'm tempted to put Vegas at +6 but, y'know, Pens/Caps.
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+8 Penguins
+6 Golden Knights
+4 Lightning
+2 Predators
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+8 Lightning
+6 Sharks
+4 Predators
+2 Capitals
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+8 Vegas
+6 Tampa
+4 Nashville
+2 Penguins
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You know, I was thinking about this...

SmartMuffin posted...

and right out of the gate, someone picks all home teams!

And how 7 of 8 home teams won and the 8th (Sharks) were off by one point. So... it pays to go with the favourites, sometimes!

(Also it's the first playoffs since 2011 that didn't have a wild card, or 7th/8th seed, winner in the first round... and that was the year Chicago came back from down 3-0 to force the Canucks to Game 7 overtime, so close)

+8 Sharks
+6 Lightning
+4 Capitals
+2 Preds

Watch me be wrong on all of these.

Yeah I noticed how I did pretty well picking the home teams. Only one wrong was the Sharks with +1

That said I feel bad picking against the Caps, but its the Caps.
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+8 Lightning
+6 Sharks
+4 Jets
+2 Capitals
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+8 Lightning
+6 Predators
+4 Capitals
+2 Sharks
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+8 Bruins
+6 Preds
+4 Caps
+2 Sharks
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+8 Sharks
+6 Bruins
+4 Predators
+2 Capitals

I'm impressed how many people are predicting the Caps, like, we haven't learned anything from history at all... lol

+8 Sharks
+6 Predators
+4 Lightning
+2 Penguins

Time to put my money where my mouth is on Vegas sucking, and to NOT just take the Caps because of homer reasons...
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Somehow Im just seeing this :(
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spoilers: the stars didnt advance
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did we get everybody for round 2? did any round 1 participants miss the boat...?

my picks are even worse than the first round
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So, nobody was perfect, but it looks like three people only missed one point. As always, let me know if you think I got your score wrong:

Peridiam - 35
Stan - 35
Shadow Dino - 35
Muffin - 34
HBJ - 33
davidponte - 33
Iceman - 33
ExTha - 33
Nick - 32
Nee - 32
MartinFF7 - 30
KCF - 28
starscream - 28
Dp - 26
rammtay - 26
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Oh hey, not last!
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save
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Ex is the only person we lost between rounds

Which is a shame, because he almost certainly would have gone Pens +8, which is lookin pretty good...
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It's true, very few teams have ever climbed back from a 1-0 series deficit
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Lol at the sharks picks. Murray-Fluery Bowl is happening. Get used to it now.
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AWW
lastplace
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member the time I got first in the first round then got zero in the second rounnd
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bump
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up
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rammtay posted...

member the time I got first in the first round then got zero in the second rounnd

That happened to me one year too, a perfect first round, and four wrong guesses in round 2
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up
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up
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bumpo
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Tampa through
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bracket just getting worse and worse
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I need a couple Game 7's to get the rest of my points, but hey, the only +8 Vegas. Plus I don't want the Pens to win anyway!
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