May 13, 2016

NHL Playoff Pick 'Em, Round 3: The third round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs begins tonight at 8 p.m. EDT when the Tampa Bay Lightning play the Pittsburgh Penguins in the East. The other series begins Saturday when the San Jose Sharks visit the St. Louis Blues. Our NHL Pick 'Em contestants should pick the winners of both series, the number of games and some bonus categories.

posted by rcade to hockey at 02:16 PM - 18 comments

Round 1Round 2Score
MrFrisby7714
tahoemoj8513
grum@work413
ic23b7613
NoMich6713
Ufez Jones10111
billsaysthis8311
tommytrump7411
cixelsyd5510
bender718
holden448
jagsnumberone617
rcade527
Howard_T527
rumple505
MeatSaber325

Round 2 results

St. Louis in 7 over Dallas
San Jose in 7 over Nashville
Tampa in 5 over N.Y. Islanders
Pittsburgh in 6 over Washington

Top 3 goal scorers: 6: Logan Couture; 5: T.J. Oshie, 4: Joe Pavelski (MrFrisby), Mike Fisher, Troy Brouer, David Backes, Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov (ic23b)

Best starting goalie save percentage: .926, Matt Murray (nobody)

Best team power play percentage: .381, San Jose (billsaysthis, tahoemoj, holden, MrFrisby)

Best goals per game: 3.6, Tampa Bay (tommytrump, NoMich, cixelsyd, tahoemoj, MrFrisby)

Rules

Pick the two teams that will advance and the number of games each series will require. Each winner is worth two points.

Two extra points on each series winner for getting the number of games correct.

One point for picking the top goal scorer this round.

One point for picking the starting goalie with the best save percentage.

One point for picking the team with the best power play percentage.

One point for picking one of the top three most penalized players.

One point for picking the team that scores the most goals per game.

posted by rcade at 02:20 PM on May 13, 2016

Pittsburgh in 7
St. Louis in 5

Goal scorer: Crosby
Goalie: Elliott
PP%: Pittsburgh
Penalties: Killorn (TB)
Team GPG: Pittsburgh

posted by Ufez Jones at 02:37 PM on May 13, 2016

Lightning in 6
Sharks in 6

Goal Scorer: Pavelski
Goalie: Bishop
Power Play: Penguins
Penalty: Steen
Goals per Game: Sharks

posted by MeatSaber at 03:22 PM on May 13, 2016

Penguins in 6
Blues in 7

Goal Scorer: Johnson (Lightning)
Goalie: Elliott (Lightning)
PP%: Sharks
Penalty: Letang
GPG: Blues

posted by grum@work at 03:52 PM on May 13, 2016

Pittsburgh in 6

St. Louis in 6

Goal scorer: Kessel

Goaltender: Elliott

PP%: Pittsburgh

Penalty: Backes

GPG: Pittsburgh

posted by tommybiden at 03:57 PM on May 13, 2016

grum, Elliott/Lightning?

posted by tommybiden at 03:58 PM on May 13, 2016

Pittsburgh in 6

St. Louis in 7

Goal Scorer- Vladimir Tarasenko

Goalie best save %- Brian Elliott

Power Play %- Pittsburgh

Most Penalties Player- Alex Killorn

Team most points per game- St.Louis

posted by ic23b at 04:11 PM on May 13, 2016

Pittsburgh in 5
San Jose in 7

Goal scorer: Kucherov
Goalie: Jones
PP%: Pittsburgh
Penalties: Callahan
Team GPG: Pittsburgh

posted by bender at 04:36 PM on May 13, 2016

Tampa Bay in 7

St Louis in 6

Goals: Tarasenko

Goalie: Bishop

PP: St Louis

Penalties: Backes

Goals per game: Tampa

posted by rumple at 04:44 PM on May 13, 2016

St. Louis in 7

Tampa Bay in 7

Goals: Tarasenko

Goalie: Elliott

Power play: Tampa Bay

Penalties: Killorn

Goals per game: St. Louis

posted by rcade at 05:11 PM on May 13, 2016

Penguins in 7

Sharks in 7

Scorer: Kucherov

Goalie: Jones

PP%: Pittsburgh

Penalties: Steen

Team GPG: Pittsburgh

posted by cixelsyd at 05:32 PM on May 13, 2016

Penguins in 6

Sharks in 7

Goals: Kessel (on edit-TommyT, I thought I was pretty clever here. Sorry bout your luck).

SvPct: Elliott (the Sharks are going to pepper him!).

PP: San Jose.

Penalties: Coburn (TB)

GPG: Pitt.

posted by tahoemoj at 06:04 PM on May 13, 2016

Lightning in 7

Blues in 6

top goal scorer: Nikita Kucherov

best save percentage: Ben Bishop

best power play percentage: Sharks

penalized player: Alexander Steen

most goals per game: Lightning

posted by MrFrisby at 07:02 PM on May 13, 2016

Dang it!

PIT in 6
SJS in 6

Goal scorer: J Pavelski (SJS)
Save percentage: M Murray (PIT)
Power play percentage: Pittsburgh Penguins
Penalized player: J Bouwmeester (STL)
Team goals: San Jose Sharks

posted by NoMich at 08:47 PM on May 13, 2016

TB in 7
STL in 7
Kucherov
Bishop
SJ
Callahan
SJ

posted by holden at 10:36 PM on May 13, 2016

grum, Elliott/Lightning?

Yeah, that was a brain fart on my part. I meant Elliot (Blues). I typed "Lightning" because of the line above.

posted by grum@work at 10:44 PM on May 13, 2016

Too much to do today. Didn't hit the computer until after 9:00 tonight. Had to cut the lawn before it rained, grocery shopping for the week, and had to umpire a double header this afternoon. After the games my wife and I headed to our favorite Mexican joint for dinner. This retirement crap doesn't leave you with a lot of time to do the really necessary things like pick 'ems. I will pass on the Tampa vs Pittsburgh series, but will go with the rest.

San Jose in 7

Goal Scorer: Logan Couture

Save Percentage: Martin Jones

Power Play Percentage: San Jose

Most Penalized: Alexander Steen

Most Goals (team): San Jose

posted by Howard_T at 12:09 AM on May 14, 2016

Much like Howard, I was just too busy today to get to my computer before now. ( I manage a restaurant and I'm going on vacation starting Wednesday, so been super busy getting both things at home and at work ready for me being gone for a week/lol.)

I'm take San Jose in 6 (would take Tampa in 7 if allowed)

Goal scorer: Benn Save Percentage: Murray Power Play: San Jose Penalty: Callahan Goals: St. Louis

posted by jagsnumberone at 03:18 AM on May 14, 2016

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