The NHL playoffs are upon us now and there are plenty of assumptions being made about what teams are going to win what round and then what teams will win it all.
All these numbers are based on are stats. The one stat that is missing is the emotion. A team may go into a series with the best record in the league. And yet the under achievers has more heart and more of a drive to win. There are frequently upsets every year so proper predictions cannot be taken as accurate.
There will be at least one upset this year that no one called and thought was going to happen. But it is the strength of human emotion that will cause the upset. It could be the Capitals who had the best record in the league not having the motivation to compete or Montreal putting critics aside and achieving greatness.
No one can predict how the playoffs will unravel all we know is it will be a good year. Plenty of surprises and plenty of highlight real goals.
