Why isn't there a thread about this yet? While it's going pretty normally in the West (seed 1 vs seed 2 woohoo), the East is quite interesting and completely fucked up :

- The first three seeds were eliminated in the first round, and the teams still alive were seeded 6th, 7th and 8th;
- Montreal, the team ranked 19th in the league in the regular season, eliminated both the team ranked 1st (Capitals) and the defending champions (Penguins);
- The Flyers might win their series against the Bruins in Game 7 after trailing 3-0. That would be the first time since 1975 such a comeback happened.

No matter what, this will be an awesome year. The Sharks, Blackhawks, Flyers and Bruins are all teams I like, and which haven't won the cup for a long time or ever.

But, as I'm a Habs fan and they're still in, they can all go fuck themselves. Especially the Bruins, we meet them all the fucking time, dammit.

Just hope you have good recruiters. Look at the Red Wings, a bunch of the awesome players that allowed them to dominate the league were round 3 or later picks.

And the Oilers have it better than the Leafs at least. Last in the East, and no Round 1 picks because they traded it to the Bruins.
They did well near the end though, so maybe next year they'll finally make it to the playoffs. Or at least not end up dead last. Maybe.

And the Habs should make a lot of money, the Bell Centre is sold out even when it's the other team who's hosting the game

I was really fucking happy Montreal beat the Caps personally. I don't hate the team itself, but they have Ovechkin, the player I hate the most in the NHL, by far.

The guy is an asshole to fans, to the media, he's not doing shit half the time on the ice (when he doesn't have the puck, so he sucks ass at defense),
he's a dirty player who keeps checking other players with cheap shots and knows he won't get in trouble because he's one of the league's stars.

But what really pissed me off is when he snowed that kid before Game 3 in Montreal. What a fucking dumbass.

Oh, and maybe they would have won if they sent Theodore instead. The guy is fucking awesome in the regular season, and you barely give him a chance to play in the playoffs? Really?

As for the Penguins...that was weird. You could see there was no hate whatsoever between the two teams. Barely any more brawls or fights than in regular season games.

It's not the fans who're rioting, it's some assholes taking advantage of the fact there'll be huge crowds going out of the Bell Centre or walking the streets after a win.
Almost all of them were below 20, and probably on welfare or from some shithole in Montréal, like Montréal-Nord.

EDIT : Flyers trailed 3-0 before winning Game Seven 4-3, and thus win the series 4-3 after trailing 3-0.
The Bruins need to learn how to keep a lead. Like, 40 minutes is WAY too long to start playing defensively and make a wall in the defensive zone,
unless you're like the Habs and have an awesome goalkeeper and players who pay the price by blocking 50 shots in a game.
The momentum shifted to the Flyers and the Bruins never managed to get it back.

The Flyers won't be easy to beat, because unlike the Caps and Penguins they actually play like a team, but at least there won't be as much shots to block, meaning less risks of injury.

The Flyers shutout the Habs in the first two games, and the Habs almost did the same thing in the third, but the Flyers scored a lucky goal.
But at least they scored 5 goals so people got chicken wings.

So 2-1 Flyers, but they played worse and worse every game, so I'm confident we'll either dominate them again or that we'll actually get a close game for once.

I don't think the Habs will come back from 1-3 (again). I doubt the Flyers will do like the Caps and throw away Game 5 and Game 6 because they're lazy in the first 10 minutes.
I'll hope for another miracle, but the Habs can't seem to do shit when the Flyers play their game.

As for the Leafs, they suck so much it's hard to hate them. I'd like to see a Montreal-Toronto series because it would be fucking intense,
but with the recent trades they made they better make the playoffs next year or they'll remain the punching bag of the East for a pretty long time.