Red Wings Champs

No thanks to some very questionable calls in Game 5, the Wings managed to close out the Cup in 6.

That means, after a highly dynamic last few weeks (read; no one really moved), the official prize winners are:

1st - Muffin Mix; $87
2nd - I Hate the Rangers; $43.50
3rd - Barbies Brawlers; $14.50

Congratulations, and thanks to everyone else for your interest and entries this year! Hope to see you all back for next year's run.

Who's Taking it Home?

Cup Predictions
	Wings in 4
	Wings in 5
	Wings in 6
	Wings in 7
	Penguins in 4
	Penguins in 5
	Penguins in 6
	Penguins in 7
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I personally favour the Wings' experience over the Pens, but fresh legs and some hot goaltending could be all the difference needed.

Poll

More interesting: race for first or race for last?
	Show me the money!
	Worst is the new first.
	There's still hockey on?
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Poolpicks.xls

The poolpicks spreadsheet is now updated to reflect eliminated players. You may have to click 'Don't Update' when you open the file.

I'll try to stay on top of keeping that sheet current as well.

How Do Ya Like THEM Apples

I'm sure at least a few of us expected some sweeps in the first round, but who can honestly say they thought the Senators would be the only team ousted sans win? And who would have figured Martin Gerber would be the only thing that kept them even halfway respectable? Two points total from Spezza, Heatley and Alfredsson was less than ideal for both Sens fans and poolies like me who counted on at least some offensive production.

Emery has already gone on record saying he wasn't the problem. I'll give him that he's not %100 to blame, and hey, the Rangers are still finding a way to win with a clown in their midst.

Speaking of goaltending, Hasek is out and Osgood is in for the next game now that the Preds have managed to even the series with Detroit. At 2-2 that series is another huge surprise from this playoff season. Gotta love it.

And now on the comedy side of things; watch perennial class act and nice guy Joe Sakic feed Doug Gilmour his right hand 9 years ago. (via Yahoo! NHL Experts Blog)

Business Redirect

As many of you noticed, the site was inaccessible for the past couple days. In the face of my conspiracy theories, it turns out it was a missed payment for the renewal of the domain name that was causing the redirected traffic. It appears to be fine now, and hopefully will remain that way for the remainder of the playoffs.

On the standings page, I've added a 'Players' column which is the number of players remaining on a given team. I'll also be updating the Pool Picks spreadsheet accordingly as teams are eliminated.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

Kurtis Foster

It looks like I missed a pretty significant injury in Kurtis Foster who, with a broken leg, stands no chance of coming back this playoff season for Minnesota. In light of that oversight, I have given the people who picked him Kim Johnsson instead, the next highest point scoring defenseman on the Wild. If you would prefer a different player from the 'West Defense 2' group, let me know in the next day or two.

I will not be doing the same for the likes of Daniel Briere, Daniel Alfredsson, etc. who do stand a reasonable chance of playing early in the postseason despite their injuries.