Rank the potential Finals by your preference

[fsanford]

Jets Caps
Jets Bolts
Knights Caps
Knights Bolt

 

[COHawk]

1. Knights/Caps
2. Jets/Caps
3. Knights/Lightning
4. Jets/Lightning

 

[BlueBull]

Jets Caps
Knights Caps
Jets Lightning
Knights Lightning

Very likely that one of the top 2 are happening. Lightning are down 0-2.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Jets-Bolts
Jets-Caps
Knights-Bolts
Knights-Caps

 

[PB12]

Knights-Caps please. Caps fans want a chance to ***** slap McPhee by beating the Knights. Then again, OV has tormented the Jets feanchise for years.

 

[saxonmiller]

Jets v Lightning


Nothing else I would really care about.

 

[Boxscore]

Jets vs. Caps would be the most entertaining Cup Final in many years.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Knights-Caps please. Caps fans want a chance to ***** slap McPhee by beating the Knights. Then again, OV has tormented the Jets feanchise for years.

That's an interesting angle I hadn't considered. Are Caps fans generally pissed at McPhee for building a team that goes (at least) to round 3 in his first year as GM, but couldn't get his team there in the last 20 years, or do they more recognize that he built the core that has finally gotten the Caps back there?

 

[PB12]

That's an interesting angle I hadn't considered. Are Caps fans generally pissed at McPhee for building a team that goes (at least) to round 3 in his first year as GM, but couldn't get his team there in the last 20 years, or do they more recognize that he built the core that has finally gotten the Caps back there?

He built the core but his moves on defense were bad. In the Ovechkin era we started with guys like Morrison and Poti. Not bad moves. They arn't going to win you cups but they could get you to the playoffs. Carlson and Alzner were good draft picks. Mike Green was really good. But then he never acquired a top 4 defensemen except maybe Scott Hannan. He goes cheap and gets guys like Joe Corvo and Roman Hamrlik. When his defenses were a mess, his go to quote was "We like our team". Then we got the famous Forsberg trade, which was a move to save his job.

 

[Empty Goal Net]

That's an interesting angle I hadn't considered. Are Caps fans generally pissed at McPhee for building a team that goes (at least) to round 3 in his first year as GM, but couldn't get his team there in the last 20 years, or do they more recognize that he built the core that has finally gotten the Caps back there?

Well, David Poile was the main architect of the team (with support from scouts, of course) that went to the SCF in GMGM's first year there. McPhee came in and iirc Esa Tikkanen was his only major acquisition that season.

He built the core but his moves on defense were bad. In the Ovechkin era we started with guys like Morrison and Poti. Not bad moves. They arn't going to win you cups but they could get you to the playoffs. Carlson and Alzner were good draft picks. Mike Green was really good. But then he never acquired a top 4 defensemen except maybe Scott Hannan. He goes cheap and gets guys like Joe Corvo and Roman Hamrlik. When his defenses were a mess, his go to quote was "We like our team". Then we got the famous Forsberg trade, which was a move to save his job.

I'd give McPhee kudos for his acquisition of Federov and Huet who helped the Caps reach the playoffs in 2008 after a long drought. But yeah, his overall performance is spotty at best, for someone in that position for >15 years. Not sure how much is on him vs. ownership/upper mgmt, but the Caps' coaches during this period, save for lucking into Boudreau, were uninspiring.

 

[Pilky01]

I only want to see the Jets or Caps win it all.

 

[MikeyMike01]

Knights Lightning
Jets Lightning
Knights Capitals
Jets Capitals

I don't want the Jets or Capitals to win, mostly.

 

[ViD]

The only thing everyone wants to see is Ovie hoist the cup. Everything else is second role.

 

[Rebels57]

1 - Washington vs Winnipeg
2 - Washington vs Vegas
3 - Tampa Bay vs Winnipeg
4 - Tampa Bay vs Vegas

 

[Sentinel]

1. Knights/Caps
2. Jets/Caps
3. Knights/Lightning
4. Jets/Lightning

This

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Jets - Caps because i think this would be the perfect mix of skill and grit. I think it would get real nasty between these two teams.

 

[tony d]

Jets/Capitals
Jets/Lightning
Capitals/Golden Knights
Lightning/Golden Knights

 

[snopro31]

its going to be jets vs caps with the jets taking the finals

 

[Terrier]

Jets-Caps. A team trying to end Canada's quarter century Cup drought vs. the game's biggest star trying to win his first.


After that: Jets-Lightning, Knights-Caps, Knights-Lightning.

 

[ElLeetch]

Bolts-Knights, with Bolts winning so the 2nd rounder in 2019 they sent NYR becomes another 1st.

 

[ElLeetch]

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