2016 3WW Stanley Cup Challenge – All are welcome

[El Camexican]

The first round pairings have been determined. Rules are posted below. You must be 12 years of age or older to play.

East
Washington Capitals (1) VS Philadelphia Flyers (13)
Pittsburgh Penguins (4) VS New York Rangers (9)
Florida Panthers (6) VS New York Islanders (10)
Tampa Bay Lightning (12) VS Detroit Red Wings (15)

West
Dallas Stars (2) VS Minnesota Wild (17)
St. Louis Blues (3)VS Chicago Black Hawks(5)
Anaheim Ducks (7) VS Nashville Predators (14)
Los Angeles Kings (8) VS San Jose Sharks (11)

HOW TO PLAY:
Try to gather points by picking winners in an epic internal struggle between your head and your heart. It helps to not have a team in the mix, so you can remove your heart from the equation and make educated wild guesses. Don’t worry if you haven’t kept up with hockey this season, or even if you don’t know anything about hockey, because the only thing that’s certain in these games is that anything can and will happen before the Cup is awarded.

Those who are totally clueless as to the history of ice hockey are invited to Google Lord Stanley’s Cup. It is the oldest professional sports prize in modern times. There are even books written about its history. Some believe that the real Cup isn’t even allowed into public and speculate that there are multiple copies in existence.

POINTS SYSTEM:
I will post a list of pairings for each round. Participants will copy paste and post the list as well as type in a winner and how many of the scheduled 7 games they feel it will take for their pick to get to 4 wins.

The first round awards 1 point for picking a winner and 1 point for picking how many games it took the selected team to win the series. Max points for the first round is 16
The second round awards 2 points for picking a winner and 2 points for picking how many games it took the selected team to win the series. Max points for the second round is 16
The third round awards 4 points for picking a winner and 4 points for picking how many games it took the selected team to win the series. Max points for the third round is 16
The final awards 8 points for picking the winner and 8 points for picking how many games it took the selected team to win the series. Max points for the second round is 16

Whoever has the most points at the end wins. The prize this year is pride and satisfaction in knowing that your wild guesses were better than everyone else’s.

During the series you may feel to tease, mock and torment the other participants as their picks flounder and fail. This in no way makes you a bad person, or generates residual bad blood outside of this thread. We are big boys and ice hockey, outside of spleen rupturing, kidney bruising, rib cracking, tooth loosening hits is a gentleman’s sport not unlike chess or Scrabble.

[El Camexican]

My first round picks:

Washington Capitals VS Philadelphia Flyers - Caps in 4
Pittsburgh Penguins VS New York Rangers – Pens in 6
Florida Panthers VS New York Islanders – Panthers in 7
Tampa Bay Lightning VS Detroit Red Wings – Wings in 7
Dallas Stars VS Minnesota Wild – Stars in 5
St. Louis Blues VS Chicago Black Hawks – Hawks in 7
Anaheim Ducks VS Nashville Predators – Ducks in 6
Los Angeles Kings VS San Jose Sharks – Kings in 7

[hublake]

Not paying much attention to hockey except the Red Wings. I have followed the Red Wings since the glory days of the 50's. I think this year they "might" have a change against Tampa as they have a couple of there better players out. This year I have not been real impressed by the Wings, they seem to be lacking good defense and seem to have a difficult time scoring. When your leader goal scorer is a rookie, and he only gets 22 or 23 goals something is wrong. Also the goal tending has been inconsistence, but hopefully things will change.

[atc007]

I like the Phils in 3, but I hear the Oilers may be strong? I have to run and find out what oil to put in my engine.... Have fun fellas! My moneys on Bryan...

[86T3]

I'll day Caps in 5
Pens in 5
Panthers in 6
Tampa in 6
Stars in 6
Hawks in 6
Anaheim in 5
LA in 5

I predict El Camexican's confidence in his picks to drop lower than the Canadian dollar. Boom

[El Camexican]

I predict El Camexican's confidence in his picks to drop lower than the Canadian dollar. Boom

HAHA! You were on your game last year, I'll give you that, but I stand by my wild guesses!

[bkm]

Bill, don't put any money on me unless you want to lose it. I make desicions with my heart, not my brain.

Caps in 5
Pens in 6
Florida in 6
Detoilet in 6
Stars in 4
Blues in 6
Anaheim in 5
Kings in 7




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[keister]

East
Washington Capitals in 7
Pittsburgh Penguins in 5
Florida Panthers in 6
Detroit Red Wings in 7

West
Dallas Stars in 4
St. Louis Blues in 5
Anaheim Ducks in 6
Los Angeles Kings in 6

Lots of chalk so far. Maybe I'll go out on a limb a little more in the next round.
Edit: Just went and looked at other people's picks. bkm and I picked all the same teams.

[keister]

I'd also like to predict that a news story will break confirming that Alex Ovechkin is actually an unfrozen neanderthal caveman.

[El Camexican]

Less that 30 hours to the first puck drop, where is Mr. CEE and his Mighty Bolts??????

[bkm]

East
Washington Capitals in 7
Pittsburgh Penguins in 5
Florida Panthers in 6
Detroit Red Wings in 7

West
Dallas Stars in 4
St. Louis Blues in 5
Anaheim Ducks in 6
Los Angeles Kings in 6

Lots of chalk so far. Maybe I'll go out on a limb a little more in the next round.
Edit: Just went and looked at other people's picks. bkm and I picked all the same teams.

Great minds think alike, unlike some of these other Jamokes.

[Mr. Clean]

Less that 30 hours to the first puck drop, where is Mr. CEE and his Mighty Bolts??????

Doing some scouting, flying around the US going to hockey practices, sitting in team meetings, planting my operatives, being a Jamoke....you know the normal prep for such important world events

Washington Capitals VS Philadelphia Flyers - Caps in 7
Pittsburgh Penguins VS New York Rangers – Pens in 6
Florida Panthers VS New York Islanders – Kittys in 6
Tampa Bay Lightning VS Detroit Red Wings – Ning in 7
Dallas Stars VS Minnesota Wild – Wild in 6
St. Louis Blues VS Chicago Black Hawks – Blackcoks in 6, I hate them
Anaheim Ducks VS Nashville Predators – Ducks in 5
Los Angeles Kings VS San Jose Sharks – Kings in 4 they are tougher in the south

[El Camexican]

A few days ago I sent PM's out to everyone I could find that's posted something positive about hockey on this site in the past 10 years. The result? NADA! Que pena! Thinking of all the empty seats there are going to be out west with all three CA teams playing in this makes me want to cry. Oh well, their loss.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!

[bkm]

Clean going with a big upset in round one with the Wild taking out the Stars Eh? If the Wild win I think they should be able to go through the rest o the playoffs using the North Stars name again.

[Mr. Clean]

Clean going with a big upset in round one with the Wild taking out the Stars Eh? If the Wild win I think they should be able to go through the rest o the playoffs using the North Stars name again.

This is what Jamokes do.