In this week's edition of "On the Fly," we're talking Music City Miracle Part II. The Nashville Predators must win two in a row against the Penguins, one of those in Pittsburgh, to win the Stanley Cup. Can it be done?
Absolutely not
Josh Wegman: Given how desperate the Predators will be in Game 6, and the fact they'll have their amazing crowd behind them, I think they can force a Game 7. But can they win Game 7? Absolutely not.
Pekka Rinne's numbers have been subpar away from Bridgestone Arena this postseason, and his career numbers in Pittsburgh are horrendous.
If Nashville is going to win the remaining two games, Rinne will have to be at his best, and I'm not quite sure he's capable of that on the road, especially given Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are playing some of their best hockey.
Believe!
Esten McLaren: Yes.
The Penguins aren't winning a do-or-die Game 6 in Music City during CMA weekend. Pittsburgh fell flat in a 2-1 loss following its 7-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final, so its 6-0 win in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final means little.
Game 7 will return to Pittsburgh, forcing Nashville to be the first team to win a road game in this series. The Predators own a Corsi For rating of 59.26 percent through the first three games in Pittsburgh. It will come down to goaltending, and while Matt Murray has had a significant advantage over Pekka Rinne at PPG Paints Arena, the Preds only need Rinne to be average while continuing to drive play in Pittsburgh's end to make this happen.
Rinne can't possibly be worse, right?
Nope
Josh Gold-Smith: In a word, no.
Sure, the Predators have history on their side with respect to Game 6, and it wouldn't be shocking to see Nashville bounce back with a victory Sunday night, but winning the series is another story.
Given how abysmal Pekka Rinne has been in Pittsburgh, and how his relatively inexperienced backup, Juuse Saros, hasn't been much better, it's hard to see the Predators prevailing in a winner-take-all game on the road if they do force the deciding contest.
Matt Murray has been nearly unbeatable on home ice in this series, so even if the Predators take the next one, they'll be hard-pressed to buck these ominous trends.
In this week's roundtable, we're looking ahead to the Vegas Golden Knights - the 31st NHL franchise, which will officially have a team in three weeks. And if it were up to us, Jaromir Jagr, Kevin Shattenkirk, and Marc-Andre Fleury would be on it.
Jaromir Jagr
Sean O'Leary: This one is likely up to No. 68 himself, but what better place for one of the most popular players in the NHL than the entertainment capital of the world?
Jagr is an unrestricted free agent, and probably doesn't fit in Florida's protection plans. Should he choose to sign a new contract - as he's indicated several times he'd like to - Vegas would be a terrific destination for the ageless wonder.
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The 45-year-old is coming off a 46-point season with the Florida Panthers that moved him into second on the all-time scoring list.
A player of his stature would provide entertainment value at the very least. Jagr has never shied away from the bright lights that come with stardom, and his fun-loving attitude could be a perfect match for Sin City.
Kevin Shattenkirk
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Josh Gold-Smith: The Golden Knights are surely looking to make a splash, and what better way to do that than by signing one of the biggest fish on the free-agent market?
Shattenkirk will come with a hefty price tag, and he's likely to be more interested in playing for a contender - probably on the East Coast - than an expansion franchise, but Vegas should make a run at him nonetheless.
The consistently productive 28-year-old would give Vegas both a proven power-play quarterback and a player with plenty of playoff experience.
Shattenkirk could anchor the blue line for years, and given the parity we've seen in the NHL recently, it's not inconceivable that he could be a key cog on a team that quickly becomes competitive.
The opportunity to play for an established Cup hopeful is one thing, but the Golden Knights should sell him on having a chance to lead a young club while helping it become a contender in one of America's most exciting cities.
Marc-Andre Fleury
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Flip Livingstone: Marc-Andre Fleury's career as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins will likely come to an end with 375 career regular-season wins, 44 shutouts, and, most importantly, two - maybe three - Stanley Cup rings.
Sure, he plays on the same squad as Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, but regardless, Fleury's a proven goaltender with a winning pedigree - two characteristics the Golden Knights need in their man between the pipes.
Ryan Miller and Mike Condon have also been mentioned as potential options in goal for Vegas, but neither is as playoff-tested or decorated as the Flower.
Stats and track record aside, Fleury can still play at an elite level - he proved that in the playoffs. He'll turn 33 in late November and would offer the Golden Knights the kind of stability in the crease that most expansion teams can only long for.
Fleury's a perfect fit on the strip, and would immediately put Vegas on the hockey map.
It's kind of amazing that Crosby, last year's Conn Smythe winner, gets only one vote. His 20 points rank second among all postseason skaters.
Who you got?
Conference finals, overall results
Your hardworking and extremely handsome editors fared pretty well in the third round, thanks to all of us picking Pittsburgh to advance over Ottawa. (Sorry, Senators fans.)
Editor
3rd-round score
Overall
Gold-Smith
2/2
8/14
Hagerman
2/2
9/14
Livingstone
1/2
6/14
Ian McLaren
1/2
6/14
O'Leary
2/2
7/14
Sachdeva
2/2
9/14
Vaswani
2/2
9/14
Wilkins
2/2
11/14
Wegman
2/2
9/14
Mr. Wilkins is a prophet, and after a respectable 5-for-8 first round, he's been perfect ever since. He's got the the Predators winning the Cup and Rinne the Conn Smythe. So congratulations in advance, Nashville.
The Stanley Cup Final is upon us, with the puck dropping on Game 1 between the Penguins and Nashville Predators on Monday at 8 p.m. ET in Pittsburgh.
Below, cast your vote on which team you believe will raise the most brilliant trophy in pro sports, and then check out theScore's Stanley Cup Final preview content.
In this week's edition of "On the Fly," we're looking back at moments from this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs that have stayed with us through three rounds. And, heads up, Ottawa's featured prominently, because the Senators had a magical few weeks.
MacArthur's moment
Ian McLaren: Nobody expected Clarke MacArthur to play professional hockey again, much less score an overtime playoff goal to propel the Senators into Round 2.
Prior to those Game 6 heroics, it was in Game 2 of Ottawa's series against the Boston Bruins that MacArthur put himself back on an NHL score sheet, netting an opening-period goal that marked his first tally in almost two years.
MacArthur, of course, had been sidelined for most of the past two seasons after a series of concussions put his career in doubt. That he was able to return for Ottawa's postseason run was one thing, but to hit the back of the net on home ice was a special moment, to be sure.
"One of the most special moments I've lived as a coach," Senators head coach Guy Boucher said after the eventual Game 2 overtime win. "When (MacArthur) raised his arms, the whole city raised its arms."
That sentiment surely wasn't limited to Ottawa.
Anaheim's comeback
Flip Livingstone: The wildest third-period comeback of the playoffs was arguably the most controversial, as well.
Oilers goalie Cam Talbot was forced to try to make saves with two Anaheim players on top of him when Rakell slid in the equalizer, but an Edmonton coach's challenge did not change the call on the ice - good goal.
Edmonton blew a three-goal, third-period lead and wasted a glorious chance to pull ahead in the series - a fact that would end up haunting them only five days later when Anaheim eliminated the Oilers in Game 7.
The last-minute flurry of goals, in-crease controversy, and double-overtime winner all made the game one of the best of the 2017 postseason.
Sorry, Edmonton.
Pageau's 4
Craig Hagerman: If the Senators were a Cinderella story, then Jean-Gabriel Pageau might just have played the titular role.
The speedy forward was a rare source of offense for the Senators this postseason. Nowhere were his exploits more on display than in Game 2 of the second round, when Pageau put the Sens on his back and lifted them to an incredible double-overtime victory over the New York Rangers.
After tallying his second goal of the playoffs midway through the first period, Pageau waited until the dying minutes of regulation to strike again, notching his second of the game with just over three minutes remaining. He completed his hat trick with 62 seconds left and Craig Anderson on the bench, tipping in a Kyle Turris slap shot to tie the game at 5-5 and send it to extras.
In double OT, just under three minutes in, Pageau came in on a 2-on-1 break and shelved a wicked wrister over the catching glove of Henrik Lundqvist, capping off his four-goal outburst in style and bringing the Canadian Tire Centre to a frenzy.
Four shots, four goals.
Not too bad for a player who scored 12 times in 82 regular-season games.
Kadri's shift
Sean O'Leary: Though it's impossible to quantify, momentum is one of those divine elements in sports that you can just feel. It can start with a scoring chance, a save, or - in Nazem Kadri's case in Game 3 of the first round versus the Washington Capitals - a hit.
Trailing 2-0 in the early stages of the Toronto Maple Leafs' first home playoff game in four years, Kadri set out to provide his team a spark by pasting Brooks Orpik into the corner boards, bringing an anxious home crowd to its feet.
Moments later, as Toronto transitioned to the neutral zone, Kadri took another wild run at Orpik, knocking both players on the seat of their pants. As Kadri wandered to the bench for a change, Auston Matthews took his spot, and promptly bagged his first career playoff goal to make it a game - which Toronto ended up winning in overtime. Sports are fun that way.
It was one of those rare moments, when, as an observer, you could feel the energy of the game transitioning between the teams in a huge sequence. It was exactly what makes playoff hockey so exciting.
You can watch Kadri's thundering hits and Matthews' goal here.
Karlsson's ridiculous pass
Josh Wegman: I'll go as far as saying that Erik Karlsson's pass to Mike Hoffman in the first round was the nicest pass in NHL history.
From his own goal line, Karlsson elegantly saucered the puck past multiple Bruins to have it land perfectly on the blue line just as Hoffman was skating by. Watch it - and be wowed - here.
What made the play even more amazing was that Hoffman finished with the one-handed deke that was good enough to land Peter Forsberg on a stamp when he first completed the move in the 1994 Olympics. The fact that Ottawa won the game by a goal cements it as one of the most spectacular plays in NHL postseason history.
Do or die for a chance to play for the Stanley Cup. It doesn't get much better than that.
Pittsburgh hosts Ottawa in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final on Thursday night. The Penguins are trying to make it to back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals in their quest to repeat, while the Senators are looking to make their second final in club history (and win the franchise's first Cup).
Here's where things stand after six games:
Team
GF
GA
SF
SA
SV%
PP%
PK%
FOW%
Penguins
14
11
200
168
.935
27.8% (5-for-18)
94.4% (17-for-18)
49.4%
Senators
11
14
168
200
.930
5.5% (1-for-18)
72.2% (13-for-18)
50.6%
What do you think?
Puck drop is shortly after 8 p.m. ET. You can watch the game on CBC in the north and NBCSN in the U.S.
We're discussing the Ottawa Senators' (mostly boring) brand of playoff hockey in this week's "On the Fly" roundtable.
Navin Vaswani: I looked up the list of Stanley Cup champions - there's no asterisk next to the New Jersey Devils' titles in 1995, 2000, and 2003. They perfected the trap and won three titles because of it. And that's pretty much the beginning and end of the "Senators are boring" discussion, because while their style of play dominates headlines, the team keeps marching on, somehow, to 16 wins. Only six more to go.
You've heard and read it before: Some teams play to win, others play not to lose. Ottawa definitely falls into the latter category, and, since style points account for nothing in the playoffs, not losing is, uh, kind of paramount. The 1-3-1 system's working, and it doesn't matter a lick what you or I or anybody thinks of it.
There's a lot of irony to this discussion, as well. Everyone keeps saying the Sens don't deserve to be where they are, but it's the system that's got them here. A coach is only as good as his players, and it's no stretch to say that, other than Erik Karlsson, there aren't any truly elite players on the squad, but the roster is littered with solid NHLers like Kyle Turris, Derick Brassard, Dion Phaneuf (who has found a home in Ottawa, behind Karlsson), Mike Hoffman, Craig Anderson, Mark Stone, and Clarke MacArthur. Toss in a couple of unexpected, yet exceptional, playoff performances from Bobby Ryan and Jean-Gabriel Pageau, and suddenly you realize how deep the Senators are up front. Boring? Sure, that's one way to look at it. Another: The Senators have found the best method to win games with the squad they've got.
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Then there's Karlsson himself. Arguably the league's most exciting player, he plays on the NHL's most boring side. But I'll tell you what wasn't boring, and what, for me, remains the top moment of the playoffs: Karlsson's unbelievable saucer pass from his goal line to Hoffman at the Boston Bruins' blue line. A close second: Phaneuf's obliteration of Bryan Rust, with the type of clean yet vicious open-ice hit you simply don't see all that much anymore. There's beauty, in other words, to be found in even the most boring team on the planet.
Ottawa doesn't deserve to be derided for its style of play. Instead, the team deserves praise, because it isn't the Pittsburgh Penguins, which boast four of the top six playoff scorers. The Senators know exactly who they are. They've embraced their identity. To a man, they've bought in. And that's all that matters in the spring.
Josh Gold-Smith: It's not pretty, but dammit, it works.
Ottawa's style is unquestionably boring, but as long as the Senators are winning, it's not going away. Yes, it's a trap, but they can still put crooked numbers on the scoreboard when they want to, as we saw in the Game 3 blowout.
"Defense wins championships" is a tired cliche, but it's proven to be true many times in the history of the NHL and beyond. Every team plays a tighter game in the postseason, and as exhilarating as firewagon hockey is to watch, it's not always a recipe for playoff success.
Sure, the Penguins won the Stanley Cup last season with a slew of dynamic scorers, and they have a shot at doing it again, but look at the most exciting teams besides the Penguins this season. The Washington Capitals, Edmonton Oilers, and Toronto Maple Leafs were all must-watch squads, but now they're all sitting at home watching the Senators, who are a pair of wins away from reaching the Stanley Cup Final.
It might be sleep-inducing, but it's hard to argue with a formula that's paying off for Guy Boucher's club.
Craig Hagerman: Anything for the Cup, right?
Well, the Senators are certainly taking that wisdom to heart - and all the power to 'em.
Sure, their style might not be the most artistic display on the ice, but it works for them. And that means it would be hard to find a member of the franchise or its fan base who would be calling for a change, especially with the team only two wins away from advancing to their second-ever Stanley Cup Final.
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"The Senators are worse than watching your parents have sex," as Vice Sports' Dave Lozo put it, ever so vividly.
They might piss off a Phil Kessel or two in the process, but what's wrong with that?
Love them or hate them, the Senators are getting results, and that's all that matters. And while we're at it, let's not forget that Ottawa's outscored Pittsburgh 7-3 through three games. So maybe it's the Penguins who should be considering a style change.
Josh Wegman: Sometimes I wonder if Guy Boucher's goal is to slowly kill hockey, but then I remember he's in the business of winning hockey games.
Sure, his 1-3-1 trap can make some - though not all - games incredibly boring, but it has his team within two wins of the Stanley Cup Final - a position the Senators have no business being in on paper.
We're through two rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, which means only four teams are left standing. Below is each club's top Conn Smythe Trophy candidate ahead of the conference finals. You can vote for your selection at the end of the post.
Erik Karlsson
Cory Wilkins: Of the four teams left in the playoff picture, three clubs have two or three players who've arguably been the most valuable this postseason.
The gap between Erik Karlsson and the next best Senators player is best illustrated by this stat: When Karlsson is on the ice, the Senators are plus-six at five-on-five. When he takes the odd breather, that number dips substantially - the Senators are minus-eight at even strength when Karlsson's on the bench.
Fortunately for Senators fans, Karlsson hasn't needed many breaks this postseason, despite the breaks in his left foot. In Game 5 against the New York Rangers, he played 5:33 of the final 6:35 of regulation.
His performance was even more impressive in the series clincher over the Blueshirts, as Karlsson skated for 6:27 of the last 8:14 in the 4-2 road win. Talk about valuable.
The Flower
Ian McLaren: If there was any doubt about Marc-Andre Fleury's present value to the Pittsburgh Penguins, it was all but erased with a road shutout win over the Washington Capitals in Game 7.
"We're not in this position if he doesn't play the way he has," Sidney Crosby said after the victory, which propelled the Penguins back to the Eastern Conference Final.
An MVP endorsement if ever there was one.
Fleury wasn't expected to add to his postseason numbers as a member of the Penguins, seeing as he'd been relegated to the bench in favor of Matt Murray during last year's playoffs. The rookie supplanted the veteran after the latter fell prey to a late-season injury, and made good on the opportunity by taking the Penguins all the way to a Stanley Cup win. The two entered 2016-17 in an apparent platoon situation, but with the understanding that Murray was the guy now and moving forward.
But as fate would have it, Murray himself suffered an injury prior to Game 1 of Pittsburgh's first-round series against the Columbus Blue Jackets in April, and Fleury picked up the familiar ball and ran with it.
Through two series victories, Fleury - playing behind a Penguins blue line missing Kris Letang, Mark Streit, and Trevor Daley - has an 8-4 record and .927 save percentage, putting himself firmly in the Conn Smythe Trophy conversation as Pittsburgh's strong last line of defense.
Ryan Getzlaf
Craig Hagerman: Ryan Getzlaf has put the Anaheim Ducks on his back this postseason and carried them into the conference finals.
After scoring three goals in the Ducks' opening-round sweep of the Calgary Flames, the captain was even more impressive in Round 2 against the Edmonton Oilers. Getzlaf finished with five goals and 10 points in seven games, tying a Ducks record for playoff points in a single series.
The Ducks found the back of the net 21 times against the Oilers, meaning the 32-year-old had a hand in nearly half of his team's goals.
Getzlaf has played the fourth-most minutes among all forwards these playoffs, while his 23:54 average ice time per game ranks second among all forwards, behind only Patrick Kane (who played just four games in the first round). Getzlaf's also been a machine in the faceoff circle, with a 54.6 percent success rate. He's second on Anaheim with 31 hits, and leads the club in blocks while ranking third in takeaways.
No. 15's done it all for the Ducks. If Getzlaf can propel the team to eight more wins, there's no question he'll be this season's Conn Smythe Trophy winner.
Pekka Rinne
Navin Vaswani: Pekka Rinne's played 10 games this postseason. He's allowed 14 goals.
The 94-point Nashville Predators are in the conference finals for the first time in franchise history, having knocked off the 109-point Chicago Blackhawks in four games and the 99-point St. Louis Blues in six games. It's difficult to lose when your goalie stops 95.1 percent of the 288 shots fired his way.
After posting a .908 save percentage in 66 starts in 2015-16, and a .902 mark in an injury-shortened 2013-14, there was some talk that Rinne, perhaps, couldn't get Nashville where it wanted to go. His .909 save percentage in six playoff games in 2015 and his .906 in 14 playoff games last spring didn't help. He's getting up there in years, after all, as the Finn plays his age-34 season.
But Rinne rebounded, posting a respectable .918 save percentage in 61 starts this season. Turns out, he was saving himself for the playoffs.
The Predators goalie leads all postseason netminders in save percentage (.951), goals-against average (1.37), and is tied with the now-departed Cam Talbot with two shutouts. The most impressive statistic, though, may be Rinne's NHL-leading .957 save percentage at even strength. He's about as locked in as locked in gets at the moment.
Nashville's winning as a team. Defenseman Ryan Ellis is the club's leading scorer with four goals and nine points (he's tied with Ryan Johansen, who has nine points but only two goals). Roman Josi and Filip Forsberg have eight points, while P.K. Subban has seven.
The system's working, and Rinne's benefiting. If the Predators win the Stanley Cup, he'll hoist two trophies.
Four teams left, and it's crystal ball time once again.
The Eastern Conference semifinals weren't kind to a number of theScore's NHL editors. To put it plainly: The guys didn't get pucks deep, didn't apply pressure on the forecheck, didn't stick to the gameplan, and definitely did not give it 110 percent.
We're looking to make amends with our conference finals picks, which are below, along with our records through two rounds. Like Alex Ovechkin, we're trying our best.
Western Conference
Ducks vs. Predators
Editor
Pick
Josh Gold-Smith
Predators
Craig Hagerman
Predators
Flip Livingstone
Ducks
Ian McLaren
Ducks
Sean O'Leary
Predators
Sonny Sachdeva
Predators
Navin Vaswani
Predators
Cory Wilkins
Predators
Josh Wegman
Predators
None of us picked the Predators to come out of the first round. We're all but all-in on Nashville now, though.
Eastern Conference
Penguins vs. Senators
Editor
Pick
Gold-Smith
Penguins
Hagerman
Penguins
Livingstone
Penguins
McLaren
Penguins
O'Leary
Penguins
Sachdeva
Penguins
Vaswani
Penguins
Wilkins
Penguins
Wegman
Penguins
We remain allergic to the Ottawa Senators, despite the fact they haven't yet been forced to play a Game 7. It's nothing personal, just business. The Pittsburgh Penguins are the defending champions, after all. And, let's face it, the whole underdog, disrespected Senators thing is working for Ottawa. Who are we to mess with it?
2nd-round, overall results
Here's how each editor fared in the second round, along with their overall numbers through 12 series.
Editor
2nd-round score
Overall
Wilkins
4/4
9/12
Sachdeva
3/4
7/12
Wegman
3/4
7/12
Hagerman
2/4
7/12
Vaswani
1/4
7/12
Gold-Smith
2/4
6/12
McLaren
3/4
5/12
Livingstone
1/4
5/12
O'Leary
1/4
5/12
It's Mr. Wilkins' world, after his perfect Round 2 performance. We're just living in it.
In this week's playoff themed "On the Fly," theScore's weekly NHL roundtable series, we take a look at four players who have put forth surprising - good or bad - performances throughout the postseason thus far.
Jakob Silfverberg - Ducks
O'Leary: Perhaps after reaching a new career high in points this season, Silfverberg's impressive playoffs shouldn't qualify as a surprise, but be honest - did you expect him to have the second-highest goal output among all players nearly midway through the postseason?
Through eight games, Silfverberg's racked up seven goals and two assists, and delivered a monumental overtime winner in Game 4 versus the Oilers to even the series at 2-2.
Deployed in a shutdown role with Ryan Kesler and Andrew Cogliano, Silfverberg is getting it done at both ends of the ice, and has individually controlled 53 percent of shot attempts in the playoffs at five-on-five.
His production is drawing the attention of opposing defenses, and opening up more opportunities for Ryan Getzlaf's top line - something that's working rather well for the Ducks at the moment.
Braden Holtby - Capitals
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Gold-Smith: Holtby hasn't been underwhelming by most goalies' standards in these playoffs, but he hasn't been his typically dominant self.
The Washington Capitals netminder has an .867 save percentage in four games against the Pittsburgh Penguins, and a .909 mark over the whole postseason. It's a small sample size, sure, but now is not the time for the reigning Vezina Trophy winner to be merely average.
Holtby allowed four goals in three separate first-round games as the Capitals required six contests to dispatch the upstart but inexperienced Toronto Maple Leafs, and he was pulled before the third period of Game 2 against the Penguins after allowing three goals on 14 shots.
He's faced only 83 shots in 4 games against Pittsburgh, or about 21 per game in the series. Some goaltenders have trouble getting into a rhythm when they're not peppered with shots, but Holtby's play is still concerning for a Capitals club on the brink of elimination.
Bobby Ryan - Senators
Livingstone: Ryan's first four seasons as a Senator have not exactly gone to plan.
Following the July 2013 trade that sent him to Ottawa in exchange for Silfverberg, Stefan Noesen, and a 2014 first-round draft pick, Ryan has failed to live up to the lofty expectations that come along with being a four-time 30-goal scorer.
Fast forward to today, and Ryan has gone from perennial whipping boy to one of the main figures in the Senators' Stanley Cup drive.
What a time to be alive (Drake voice).
The 30-year-old sniper has been a catalyst for the Sens in these playoffs, and is currently in a three-way tie for the team's postseason points lead along with Derick Brassard and Erik Karlsson at eight.
Despite another dismal regular-season performance this past campaign in which he registered his lowest offensive output in four years (13 goals and 12 assists), Ryan is proving his haters wrong with a postseason to remember.
Sure, there's a lot of puck left to be played, but if Ryan keeps up his current pace and the Sens continue to advance, a Conn Smythe nod may not be completely outside the realm of possibility.
Connor McDavid - Oilers
Hagerman: During their first postseason run in 11 years, the Edmonton Oilers are making some noise.
The club knocked off the defending Western Conference champion, the San Jose Sharks, in Round 1, and have earned a split through four contests with the Pacific Division-winning Anaheim Ducks.
It's been a great performance, despite a less dominant Connor McDavid.
The Art Ross Trophy winner has been good, but not spectacular in his first taste of playoff hockey.
He's posted four goals and seven points in 10 games - solid numbers for most players, but sorry Connor, we expect more from a godly talent.
Of course, expectations were even higher after McDavid concluded the year with some ridiculous numbers. He ended the regular season on a 14-game point streak that saw him amass a total of 25 with eight multi-point contests.
In the playoffs, though, McDavid remains without a multi-point game. He's still dazzled - his goal in Game 4 was proof - but we expect a little more from the player who will likely take home the Hart Trophy next month.
