I prefer the Ducks. Five reasons:
5) We may not have won in the Honda Center, but they are cursed in game 7s at the Honda Center themselves.
4) Bennett is starting to show he can check a guy like Kesler. Could get Monahan away from that matchup if push came to shove.
3) Their blue line is depleted. Lindholm is elite. Fowler is excellent. Vatanen is an offensive beast. None of them are locks to play.
2) Quenneville will take Gulutzan to the dry cleaners. Carlyle is an idiot who managed to lose a game 7 with, what was it, a 3 goal lead?
1) They are our Bad Boy Pistons and if we make it through them then I wouldn't even be worried about the Capitals or Penguins in the SCF.
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