1. Bruins Offense:

* Bruins scored in 28 seconds of first period / 27 second of the third period
* Crazy drop pass team
* Love how the trailing forward is peeling off into space for a cross ice pass
* Bruins defense has 14 goals in the postseason
* Nathan Horton had 13 goals in 43 regular season games / has 7 in 14 playoff games
* Marchand is flying – Plus 4

2. Bruins Defense:

* Back checking is insane
* Krug’s worst game – I would flip Bartkowski and Krug Continue reading Connelly’s Top Ten: Bruins Up 2-0 »

The NHL is down to its final four teams, and in an interesting twist, they’re also the last four teams to win the Stanley Cup. The Penguins, Blackhawks, Bruins and Kings are all worthy teams, and should make for a highly entertaining Conference Final Round.

Despite having only four possible combinations of series winners, all of our experts chose a different combination. So if you were hoping for a Penguins/Kings finals, you may be out of luck. Half of all choices for how many games the series would last ended up being seven games, which means we’ll likely see some more exciting, down-to-the-wire action.

As before, picking the winner of a series is worth two points, while picking how may games each series will last is worth one point.

So now that that’s out of the way, the complete pick sets can be found below. And be sure to come back once the series are complete to see how everyone did. Continue reading 2013 NHL Playoffs Expert Picks: Third Round »

The second round of the NHL Playoffs is complete. It was capped off by a cutthroat series between evenly-matched Los Angeles and San Jose, and of course a comeback by Chicago after being down 3-1 to Detroit. Pittsburgh and Boston won their series fairly easily to set up what looks to be a violent series in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Overall, it was fairly easy to pick the winner of a series, and much harder to guess how look it would take a team to win the series. Yours truly was the exception in both cases, which ended up being a wash.

So what does that do to our standings? Check below for the results so far, and come back Saturday for the Conference Championship picks. Continue reading 2013 NHL Playoffs Expert Picks: Second Round Results »