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Grantland's top 10 possible matchups for Round 1 this year. If you want to troll yourself, watch the video "ridiculous final seconds of regulation". All of the anger came flooding back, oh the memories.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/pr...playoff-round/

2. Canucks vs. Flames: 50.3 percent

The Flames are still in tough to make the playoffs, but if they do, it’s probably going to be against the Canucks. And that’s good news for the rest of us, because this is a fun rivalry with plenty of history. These teams have met in the playoffs six times, and the last three have been decided in overtime of the seventh game.

More recently, these teams have some history, including the time then-Canucks coach John Tortorella tried to storm the Calgary dressing room. We’re not likely to get quite that level of bad blood in this one, but the odds are good that there will be some sort of blowup somewhere. And it goes without saying: These are two Canadian teams, which means every minor incident will get blown up into a full-scale Big Important Controversy.

This year’s Canucks have been an under-the-radar feel-good story, an aging core making the most of one last run even though we all agreed that their window had slammed shut years ago. Add in the fact that this year’s Flames are quite possibly the most likable team in the league, which will drive Vancouver’s notoriously thin-skinned fan base insane, and you’ve got a recipe for some great drama here.

Random old YouTube clips to get you fired up: I couldn’t pick just one for these two teams, so let’s go with the a trio of Game 7 OT winners: Joel Otto’s maybe-kind-of-kicked-in winner in 1989, Pavel Bure’s sure-thing breakaway in 1994, and Martin Gelinas’s 2004 winner (made possible by the ridiculous final seconds of regulation).