Damn, I am good

Quote From May 6th:

Detroit over Dallas in 6 games

Pittsburgh over Philadelphia in 5 games

I really didn't expect to be so right. In reading that post just now I was like "uh WUHHHHH??!?" I looked at my prediction and had to recheck the actual number of games played because it was hard to believe I was really that awesome, but I am after all.

New prediction:

Detroit over Pittsburgh in 6 games.

I hate to make that prediction because I'm pulling for the Penguins and I have a crazy feeling that this will go to 7 games, but I can't help feeling like the Penguins are still big underdogs in this one.

Let's hope I'm right/wrong.

Wow

Stars = fucked.

Flyers = fucked.

Red Wings and Pen-Wings should begin scheduling games.

Can the Stars still take the series?

No.

In Rounds 1 and 2, the Stars were considered the underdog, playing one notable cup contender and one piece of shit team from central California. And they overcame their underdoggetry by taking the first two games, which were away games. Then they came back and took one of their two home games.

They couldn't do that against the Red Wings. The Stars relied on those first two games to take the series (Don't believe me? Subtract those wins from the Stars and give them to the other team - who wins the series?) and now they're unable to do so against an even better team. That means that they're going to have a tougher time at away games as well as a tougher time at home.

Count the Stars out for now, and I'll have a Pens/Flyers update in a bit.

Round 3 Predictions

I don't expect to be as accurate as I was in predicting the Sharks demise, but I'll give it a go.

Detroit over Dallas in 6 games

Pittsburgh over Philadelphia in 5 games

Sharks will cry at home because they know that given 130 minutes of hockey they can only score 1 goal on a team ranked 3 places lower than them

Not sure how confident I am in the first two of those, both of the teams I chose to lose have been surprisingly good in the playoffs so far. But I'm pretty sure about the last thing. And despite the first prediction, I think I'll be rooting for Dallas (not sure yet). Really, I'm counting on the Ducks storming back in to one of the games and declaring themselves Champions, kind of the way Napoleon crowned himself because no one else was worthy. By the way, Napoleon: HUGE Kings fan. That's why he had to be locked away.

OWNED!!!

The Stars win in Quadruple Overtime!!!! HOORAHHH!!!

Fuck the Sharks, I am so happy right now. It's like Jesus has come back, except this involves non-mythological characters. Yeehaw.

Now, I don't know who I'll be rooting for anymore. Don't really care for the Red Wings, but I'm pretty sure they'll beat Dallas. I'm also pretty sure Pittsburgh will beat Philadelphia. But I have gained a lot of respect for Marty Turco over the course of the Ducks' and Sharks' series so it'll be hard to root against him.

We'll see.

Ack!

If the Sharks come back and win this bullshit, I'm going to punch a hole in the wall.

That said, they probably won't win the series. The Ducks were in this same 3 - 2 situation in the series, went to Dallas for Game 6, and lost. And we know the Ducks are better than the Sharks, so the Sharks would have to really get lucky to move to Game 7.

Dallas' inability to win at home is the only reason this series even went past Game 4.

And if Dallas wins tomorrow, I get to be the King of the World (a position previously held by Leonardo DiCaprio) because way back around Game 1 or so, I said "expect this to end in 6, in Dallas". Bam, bitches.