from Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun,
It is a rare fantasy players’ bracket that remains intact in this upset-fraught chase to the Stanley Cup, though no doubt some statistical smarty pants picked the Sharks and the Penguins to be the two left standing and will never let you forget it.
But there are still predictions to be made.
Here is one man’s prognostication of the storylines that will be ground into paste during all those travel-day plane flights:
REDEMPTION
* On San Jose coach Pete DeBoer, a slight underdog to be hoisting the Cup 19 days from now or fewer, while the two men who fired him as head coach, Lou Lamoriello in New Jersey and Dale Tallon in Florida are, respectively, looking up from 30th place with the Toronto Maple Leafs and adapting to having been replaced as GM by the Panthers.
* On Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan, ever-so-slightly favoured to be drinking from Lord Stanley’s old cuspidor while silently celebrating that the man who fired him from his only previous NHL head coaching job, Peter Chiarelli, has since been fired himself and is currently trying to solve the Rubik’s cube with 29th-place Edmonton.
* On Penguins’ Phil Kessel, who appears to have given up hotdogs for scoring clutch goals, and Justin Schultz, dismissed as part of the problem in Edmonton, playing on the Pens’ power play.
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