NHL Playoff Predictions: Devils, Canes, Leafs, and More

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00:00Devils and Canes in Raleigh, Senators and Leafs at Scotiabank in Toronto, and the Wild and Vegas in Sin City at the T-Mobile on the Strip.

00:11Let's start with the Devils and Canes in Raleigh.

00:13No one at all on the face of the earth is giving the Devils any chance at all.

00:20And that started when Hughes went down.

00:22Not now.

00:23It was a month ago when they said, oh, they're finished.

00:27Do I have to watch the series?

00:30Do I have to?

00:30I guess I have to.

00:32Well, I'm going to watch it.

00:33You know, we got to have somebody around here to root for.

00:37That's true.

00:38No, Carolina's going to win.

00:40Just Jack Hughes being out, that's a huge thing for them.

00:43And, yeah, I just don't like the way they're playing down the stretch.

00:45Now, to get back Dougie Hamilton, I just think that's too massive of a loss.

00:49And Carolina is playing better down the stretch.

00:52I just think they're the better team top to bottom, primarily because of Jack Hughes' injury.

00:55So, I'd say Carolina, what, in six games?

00:58I'll give Devils a couple of wins.

01:00Maybe Markstrom gets them one.

01:02Maybe their power play gets them one.

01:03But they can't be the favorite, and I don't see them emerging to the second round.

01:06So, Marenzi was on here today, and he literally said that the Toronto Maple Leafs are going

01:13to win the Stanley Cup, and they're playing the Senators Sunday at Scotiabank in Toronto.

01:20I won't deny they've been playing better.

01:22I won't deny they've been winning close games.

01:24I won't deny they've been winning overtime games.

01:27I won't deny they won the division.

01:29Will they lose again in the playoffs?

01:32Tell Gabe that it's Ottawa in six.

01:34Yeah, they're going to lose again.

01:36How can you trust that team?

01:37Right?

01:38I don't know, but they're goaltending.

01:39You know, Wall and Stoller.

01:40Stoller's was backing up Bobrovsky in Florida last year.

01:43That's not why they won the Cup.

01:44No, there's something.

01:45And, Scotty, you know what the season series between these two teams were?

01:49Ottawa won 4-0.

01:51They're confident.

01:52I don't know about Brady, but it's funny.

01:55Those teams like Ottawa and Detroit and Buffalo, they're on the same group, and one team made

01:58the playoffs.

01:59Guess why?

02:00They went and got a freaking goaltender.

02:02Linus Olmark.

02:03I like the upset here.

02:05I think it's the livest underdog of the four, or the lower seed, of the four in

02:09the East.

02:10I don't like any other lower seeds to win.

02:12I'm going to pick Ottawa in this series.

02:14And that's that Olmark from Boston, right?

02:17Right.

02:18Exactly.

02:18Yep.

02:19Yep.

02:19And look what happened to Boston when he left.

02:21It's not so easy for, you know, eight million.

02:23One guy getting eight million to carry a team couldn't happen.

02:26Right.

02:27And now you got a wild and nights on Sunday night in sin city.

02:33Do the wild have a shot against this team?

02:35That's won five division titles in eight years in Vegas.

02:40No, it's going to, the nights are going to say an early good night to the wild.

02:44It's a sweep.

02:45They're not going to win a game.

02:46And I know they got back the breeze off and Erickson act.

02:49No, no, that's, that's Scotty.

02:51That's why you win the division.

02:52Like if Vegas didn't win the division, they'd have to play Edmonton or LA.

02:56Now they get the wild.

02:57That's a breeze.

02:58If they played St.

02:59Louis, that would be a tough one.

03:00They got the easiest draw on the East.

03:02I think it's a sweep, maybe one game in Minnesota, but they don't play that game at home either.

03:06So that's a breeze for Vegas.

03:07That's a big advantage going into the next round against the window of Edmonton and LA.

03:10All right.

03:11So I want to, you already said the Capitals aren't playing well, but you're going to take

03:16them over the Canadians, aren't you?

03:17And then tell me what you think of the Kings.

03:20Finally, after three straight, whatever it is, losses to the Oilers in the playoffs, they

03:25face them again.

03:26What's going to happen?

03:27Well, this is the year, Scotty.

03:29It's got to happen this year.

03:30They're better.

03:31They're bigger.

03:31And they're better because not only did they get their butts kicked by the Oilers last

03:36year in five games, they got bullied.

03:37Not this year.

03:38Last year, the fourth line center was 5'9", and 175.

03:41This year, Sammy Hellenis, he's 6'6", and 205.

03:44The guy next to him is Jeff Ballott.

03:46He's 6'5", 200.

03:47And his brother's a UFC fighter.

03:49They're a better, deeper team.

03:50Quentin Byfield's now a center.

03:51He drives his own line.

03:53They have three deep.

03:53And the injury to Matthias Ekholm, that's the deciding factor for me.

03:57They don't play great defense this season.

03:59And without Ekholm and the Oilers, I don't know how they match up defensively against Kings

04:03that go now three lines deep.

04:05And the Caps win?

04:06Caps win the F5.

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