With both Stanley Cup favorites, Pittsburgh and Vancouver, losing in the first round, it's a little more difficult now to determine who will represent the East and West in the Cup Finals. Nashville, St. Louis, and Los Angeles all won their series in 5 games in the West and the Flyers, the only team to win their series in the East so far, beat Pittsburgh in 6 games.
I'd say the Cup favorites from West have to be either Nashville or Los Angeles. Both of those teams had a very tough first round matchup and made very quick work of their opponents, LA beating the President's Trophy winner Canucks in 5 games and Nashvile beating Detroit in 5.
In the East, I'd have to go with either Philadelphia or Boston as the Cup favorites. Philly took down the Penguins, the best offensive team in the league, 4 games to 2, behind Claude Giroux who tallied 14 points in the 6 games. Boston still has to beat Washington in a game 7 in Boston, but if they do, they definitely have the depth, experience and goaltending needed to make it.
So what do you think, after the early exits of both Pittsburgh and Vancouver, who do we see in the Cup Finals this season?
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