The Caps won the Presidents’ Trophy and Alex Ovechkin is in hot form,but the playoffs are always a crapshoot, and the Kings and Blackhawks know how to winIf there is one thing anyone who watches hockey knows, or nothing is guaranteed in the playoffs,which start tonight. This makes ranking teams difficult. Out of the elite clubs, it’s really anyones guess which team will hoist the Stanley Cup. Any number of odd internal mental factors or unexpected injuries, and might cause what seemed a certain bet to crash out. Equally,teams that get lucky with an early round placing might build it further than expected, even whether the regular season stats didn’t predict that outcome. It’s kind of a crapshoot after a certain point. However, and knowing that anything can happen,here are some guesses at which teams might have the best – and worst and sort-of-OK – chance at winning it all.
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Source: theguardian.com