Which team with home ice is most likely to lose in round 1?

[Stealth JD]

As the title states, which "favorite" is most at risk?

Avs/Knights vs Wild/Blues
Toronto vs. Montreal
Edmonton vs. Winnipeg
Penguins vs Islanders
Capitals vs. Bruins
Carolina vs. Nashville
Panthers vs. Tampa

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[KoozNetsOff 92]

Definitely Montreal.

 

[The Podium]

My Rank:

Florida
Washington
Pittsburgh
Edmonton
Toronto
Avs/Knights
Carolina

 

[bobholly39]

Definitely Florida. Tampa Bay are large favorites in that matchup.

After - Washington. It's not anything that Caps do bad - it's more about how good Boston is. No clear favorites, to me that's a 50/50 matchup.

 

[jetsforever]

Florida
In the poll you put Montreal instead of Edmonton.

 

[North Cole]

Oilers not an option?? Confirmed. The Oilers now cannot lose in round 1. Sorry Jets.

Answer is probably Oilers, Leafs, Caps.

 

[Connor McConnor]

Can we even consider there to be any home ice advantage for the Canadian teams? American teams are playing infront of full arenas with their fans. Canadian teams should honestly be excluded from this discussion unless we want to generalize it as which higher ranked team is most likely to lose.

Then you get into the debate of how can Florida really be considered a favourite over Tampa? Or the Penguins vs. NYI after last year? Or the Caps vs. Bruins? Dont consider a single one of those upsets.

 

[Sweetpotato]

Does Montreal have home ice? Pretty sure you meant Edmonton.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

The Leafs.

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

Florida. The top two teams in the East. And whoever plays Minnesota.

 

[Stealth JD]

Definitely Montreal.

lol - i'm an idiot. obviously supposed to be EDM. Mod has been asked to change.

 

[Gee Wally]

lol - i'm an idiot. obviously supposed to be EDM. Mod has been asked to change.

done

 

[keglu]

How is see it:

Higher seed is not favourite
Capitals, Panthers

Close serie
Penguins

Upset can happen
Knights, Avalanche

Hard to imagine upset
Leafs, Oilers, Canes

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Toronto

History has shown again and again that this team sucks at playoff hockey

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I don't consider Florida the "favorite" even though they finished with more points than Tampa.

My vote would be one of the East match-ups, but that's similar to the above where that division was so close that I'd consider all the teams roughly on par.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Carolina

 

[Eat The Rich]

Hard to pick Florida to win, as they've failed to advance past the first round since the 90s.

 

[Mike Hasselhoffman]

In terms of most likely to lose in the first round:

1. Florida - great team but stuck facing the defending champs who will be getting 2 of their best players back healthy

2. Washington - still a very good team but a little banged up closing the season, Boston has looked really good post trade deadline

3. Pittsburgh - tough defensive style of the Islanders is built for the playoffs

4. Vegas - lack of high end centre depth, Minnesota is a feisty team that you do not want to meet right off the bat

 

[Hockeyholic]

Losing with home ice is pretty irrelevant since the fan impact will be minimal at best.

The only real advantage is getting last change.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Florida are big underdogs against Tampa Bay.

 

[ricky0034]

Toronto

History has shown again and again that this team sucks at playoff hockey

they're also playing against the worst team in the Playoffs though, it'll be a pretty big chokejob if they don't at least make it past the first round this year they haven't really gone in as heavy favorites like this before

lot of tossups this year, and for my vote i'll echo the Florida sentiment where with the weird Kucherov situation a fairly compelling argument could be made that they aren't even the favored team in the series

 

[McVespa99]

Florida
Washington
Toronto
Oilers
Carolina
Pitts
Vegas
Avs

 

[c9777666]

Toronto

History has shown again and again that this team sucks at playoff hockey

I don't trust this Habs team. No gamebreaker, a lot of old guys, interim coach......... but because they're built for playoff hockey, somehow people expect Bergevin's team to make him look like a genius again

 

[Sasha Orlov]

I don't trust this Habs team. No gamebreaker, a lot of old guys, interim coach......... but because they're built for playoff hockey, somehow people expect Bergevin's team to make him look like a genius again

I don’t trust them either, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the Leafs lost in round 1 again

 

[c9777666]

I don’t trust them either, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the Leafs lost in round 1 again

Are people SO down on the Leafs that they're superconfident in this shaky Habs team?