One team has been really good all around all year long, the other hasn't been very good at all but won a bunch of tight games against some other bad teams.

lets see what they did head to head:

Canes 4 - 2 Preds
Canes 4 - 2 Preds
Canes 3 - 2 Preds
Canes 5 - 1 Preds
Canes 4 - 1 Preds
Canes 3 - 1 Preds
Preds 3 - 1 Canes
Preds 5 - 0 Canes

Canes 6-2-0 with 24 goals
Preds 2-5-1 with 17 goals

looks like a coin flip to me!
- BINGO!

So there was 1 pretty meaningless game that Nashville scored 5 goals. No Dougie Hamilton that night. No Slavin. No Pesce. Like I said, a meaningless game. Take that away and I see the Preds were held to either 1 or 2 goals in the other 7 contests (the 3-1 win had an empty-netter). So in 7 games, Nashville scored 11 goals. Sorry. That's not going to win a series. Maybe Ek thinks its difficult but I just put a couple hundred buck on this being over in 4 or 5 games.

One team has been really good all around all year long, the other hasn't been very good at all but won a bunch of tight games against some other bad teams.

lets see what they did head to head:

Canes 4 - 2 Preds
Canes 4 - 2 Preds
Canes 3 - 2 Preds
Canes 5 - 1 Preds
Canes 4 - 1 Preds
Canes 3 - 1 Preds
Preds 3 - 1 Canes
Preds 5 - 0 Canes

Canes 6-2-0 with 24 goals
Preds 2-5-1 with 17 goals

looks like a coin flip to me!
- BINGO!

Hi kids. Ek saved the Preds you know.

One team has been really good all around all year long, the other hasn't been very good at all but won a bunch of tight games against some other bad teams.

lets see what they did head to head:

Canes 4 - 2 Preds
Canes 4 - 2 Preds
Canes 3 - 2 Preds
Canes 5 - 1 Preds
Canes 4 - 1 Preds
Canes 3 - 1 Preds
Preds 3 - 1 Canes
Preds 5 - 0 Canes

Canes 6-2-0 with 24 goals
Preds 2-5-1 with 17 goals

looks like a coin flip to me!
- BINGO!

Ha.

Maybe the Predos will do to you what you did to the Rangers last year.

Ha.

Maybe the Predos will do to you what you did to the Rangers last year.
- PT21

Speedbag a team that they're vastly superior to? I think the Preds are missing the latter part of that equation.

Speedbag a team that they're vastly superior to? I think the Preds are missing the latter part of that equation.
- eichiefs9

I was referring to the fact that Rangers dominated Canes in regular season.

Then got swept.

But yeah, I dont see it either.

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- SimpleJack

Haha. As I said, Carolina smothered Nashville, once again held them to 2 goals or less, and put up 5. It didn't matter which goalie Carolina went with. So many people made a big deal of Nashville winning these last 2 games. Look deeper. These were pretty meaningless games for Carolina, with the 5-0 game playing without their top 3 d-men. This was the easiest series to pick. I bet several hundred bucks on Carolina winning in 4 or 5. Did the same with Colorado and Toronto. The 3 easiest picks.

Speedbag a team that they're vastly superior to? I think the Preds are missing the latter part of that equation.
- eichiefs9

Dushene is useless

Dushene is useless
- up-n-ya

100% agree. But most of that roster is useless, especially their group of forwards. David Poile should use his time machine and undo Johansen and Duchene. This franchise needs a new GM who can rebuild. Starts with shopping Ekholm after the expansion draft. I'd also look at selling Forsberg who is one of the few assets that can fetch a big return. Poile is totally overrated. Did you know Kyle Turris has a $2M cap hit for 6 more years. Haha. Anyway, Nashville won those last 2 meaningless games so that makes this series really tough to call. Lots of hockey left.

Dushene is useless
- up-n-ya

He's turned into a faster, but smaller and not as strong version of Jordan Staal.