Welcome to another edition of the Hockeybuzz hotstove.
With the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks set to square off in an all-Canadian matchup, the hotstove shares their picks for the series.
Todd Cordell I'm going to pick the Calgary Flames in six games.
The Flames aren't a very good possession team, and I'm not in love with their defense now that Mark Giordano is out of the lineup, but I still like them in this series.
These two scored almost the exact same amount of goals in the regular season, but I like Calgary's forward core more, and am intrigued by Sam Bennett's arrival as well.
The Flames are very good at drawing penalties, and they have a pretty good power play that should be able to take advantage of them.
I think their team speed could give an older, slower Canucks team fits and that something as simple as that could make the difference in a game or two, which could decide the series.
Give me Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, T.J. Brodie and the fresh legs in Calgary against a veteran Canucks team.
Tim Chiasson One of these two teams is going to get the chance to outrun the inevitable for a round so I'll choose the lesser of two evils and pick the Vancouver Canucks.
Horrific possession catches up to you in the end and Calgary is right there keeping the lamp lit in the possession cellar with Toronto, Colorado and New Jersey. The only teams in the bottom ten for score adjusted Fenwick to make the playoffs were Montreal and Calgary. One of them has the best goaltender in the universe and the other has the 2nd highest shooting percentage in the league.
The Canucks are a better team, plain and simple, and they should come out on top of the worst first round series for 2015.
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