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From: [email protected] (Randy Coulman)
Subject: Re: Playoff Predictions
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (jack petrilli) writes:
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>I don't understand why so many people are predicting an upset against
>Pittsburgh. The team has won 12 in a row coming into the playoffs.
>They've won practically every game that they've really wanted to win
>all year (including critical victories against the Caps and one
>against a hot Bruins team **at the Gaahden**). The team is probably at
>its peak (stronger than the previous 2 Stanley Cup winners). I mean, I
>know they can lose but it would be a **large** upset. I personally
>think teams are going to be hard pressed to win 1 or 2 games in any
>series against the Pens (and I'm **not** a Pittsburgh fan).
>
I have to agree here. As I heard on TSN tonight, "You want to pick
someone else, but you just don't see how you can". And I'm a Bruins
fan. Maybe this year will be different, but it doesn't look good.
Time will tell, though.
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Randy
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Randy A. Coulman, M.Sc. | ARIES Laboratory
Research Assistant | Department of Computational Science
| University of Saskatchewan
[email protected] | Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W0