If you held a gun to my head, I would say Detroit is going to win it all. That said, their record, although impressive, is padded with 24 games vs Columbus, Chicago and St. Louis. Calgary finished 21 points back. Not as impressive, consider that the the 5th place team in their division finished ahead of the 3rd place team in Detroit's division. Plus the hottest team in the West has been San Jose. For Detroit to make it to the finals, they're probably going to have to beat at least one of Calgary, Nashville and San Jose... no easy task. And they may have to beat two of them. And don't count out Dallas or Colorado.
The East is a little more clear. What it looks like to me is that either Ottawa or Carolina will have to play Buffalo in the second round. That team will have a much tougher go of it than the team that plays the other first round winner (either New Jersey or the Rangers). So if the Rangers win, I predict Ottawa will go to the finals (since they play the Rangers and not Buffalo) and if Jersey wins, I predict Carolina will go to the finals as Ottawa would have to play Buffalo...
Spurs will take it again. They're first in the West playing like crap and they always get better on play offs. The only way Pistons will take it is that Duncan and Ginobili are very injury prone, but if these two are healthy, SAS will repeat
Besides, this year they've backups for Manu, TP and the center position (Finley, NVE/Udrih, Rasho/Nazr respectively) which they didn't have last year. They're still the favorites, no matter what
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Calgary is winning it all, we have THE best goaltender, and a young team ready to finish it off this year.
look for Calgary being a contender for at least the next 5 years.
no to mention our offense has been rolling, we have strong D and let in few goals,
well rounded teams win, and it will be calgary.
for those who said they finished alot of points back, take a look at their division, it is by far the best division in hockey, and they came out on top of it.
btw, before anyone says anything, I know Udrih and Nazr were in the team last year, but none of them were in shape with the SAS game philosophy. Nazr was more a backup for Rasho, and nowadays Nazr is a starter. Udrih was considered almost a failure, and now is playing nice games when he has a chance. Given that TP is a known and proven PO flaker (even tho he really improved this year), NVE and Udrih could be very necessary for SAS
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