May 30, 2016

NHL Playoff Pick 'Em: Stanley Cup Round: The Stanley Cup Final between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins begin tonight at 8 p.m. EDT. Five players in our NHL Pick 'Em contest are within 5 points of the leader, NoMich.

posted by rcade to hockey at 10:41 AM - 20 comments

Standings

Round 1Round 2Round 3Score
NoMich67821
tahoemoj85518
ic23b76316
Ufez Jones101516
cixelsyd55616
grum@work94215
tommytrump74314
MrFrisby77014
bender71412
jagsnumberone61411
MeatSaber32611
billsaysthis83--11
Howard_T52310
holden4419
rcade5218
rumple5016

Round 3 Results

San Jose in 6 over St. Louis
Pittsburgh in 7 over Tampa Bay

Goals: 4: Kessel (tommytrump, tahoemoj), Drouin, Pavelski (Meat Saber, NoMich), Ward
Best SV%: Vasilevskiy, .923 (nobody)
Best PP%: St. Louis, .235 (rumple)
Most PIM: 18: Killorn (Ufez Jones, ic23b, rcade), 17: Wingels, 13: Shattenkirk
Most GPG: San Jose, 3.67 (Meat Saber, NoMich, holden, Howard_T)

Stanley Cup Picks

1. Winner: San Jose or Pittsburgh (4 points)

2. Number of games that team will require (4 points)

3. The longest game (in OT periods) (1 point)

4. First player to score a goal (1 point)

5. Conn Smythe winner (1 point)

6. Player to score the most goals (1 point)

7. Player to get the most assists (1 point)

8. Player with the best plus/minus (1 point)

9. Player with the most penalty minutes (1 point)

10. Starting goaltender with the best save percentage (1 point)

Tiebreaker: Total goals scored in the series. If two players pick the same tiebreaker, the one who posted it first wins.

posted by rcade at 10:41 AM on May 30, 2016

1. Pittsburgh

2. 6 games

3. 1 OT

4. Pavelksi

5. Murray (Pittsburgh)

6. Kessel

7. Crosby

8. Thornton

9. Letang

10. Murray (Pittsburgh)

Tiebreaker: 30 goals

posted by grum@work at 10:59 AM on May 30, 2016

1. Pittsburgh

2. 7 Games

3. One OT

4. Malkin

5. Crosby

6. Crosby

7. Thornton

8. Vlasic

9. Letang

10. Murray

Tiebreaker: 33 goals

posted by Ufez Jones at 11:18 AM on May 30, 2016

1. San Jose

2. 6 games

3. 1 OT

4. Ward

5. Pavelski

6. Pavelski

7. Thornton

8. Burns

9. Letang

10. Jones

T: 34

posted by cixelsyd at 11:25 AM on May 30, 2016

San Jose

6

1

Thornton

Pavelski

Pavelski

Thornton

Thornton

Hagelin

Jones

36

rcade, it's the Stanley Cup Final (not Finals) ;-)

posted by tommybiden at 12:09 PM on May 30, 2016

1) San Jose
2) 6 games
3) 2 OTs
4) Letang
5) Marleau (career type thing)
6) Pavelski
7) Malkin
8) Vlasic
9) Hagelin
10) Murray

Tie0breaker: 32

posted by MeatSaber at 12:36 PM on May 30, 2016

rcade, it's the Stanley Cup Final (not Finals) ;-)

Hate to make that correction. Everything should be plural.

posted by rcade at 01:16 PM on May 30, 2016

1. Pittsburgh

2. 6

3. 1

4. First player to score a goal (Pavelski)

5. Conn Smythe winner (Kessel)

6. Player to score the most goals (Kessel)

7. Player to get the most assists (Thornton)

8. Player with the best plus/minus (Crosby)

9. Player with the most penalty minutes (Ward)

10. Starting goaltender with the best save percentage (Murray)

Tiebreaker: 31

posted by rumple at 02:08 PM on May 30, 2016

Sharks in 6

2 OT

Hertl

Pavelski

Pavelski

Thornton

Thornton

Letang

Jones

27

posted by tahoemoj at 02:12 PM on May 30, 2016

...and as Howard sinks slowly in the standings...

San Jose in 7 (thus saving at least one line feed)

Longest game will require 1 OT period (and not much of that with these 2 clubs)

First goal by Marleau

Conn Smythe Trophy goes to Jones (Goaltenders seem to win this quite often)

Most goals scored by Pavelski

Most assists by Thornton

Best +/- Vlasic

Most PIM Wingels

Best save % Jones (Which leads to the choice of Conn Smythe winner)

Total goals in the series will be 67 (and if I were betting, I'd take the "over")

Everything should be plural.

Which sorely tempts me to enter the above once more.

posted by Howard_T at 02:28 PM on May 30, 2016

1. San Jose

2. 5

3. 1 OT

4. T. Hertl

5. L. Coutore

6. J. Pavelski

7. L. Coutore

8. M. Vlasic

9. K. Letang

10. M. Jones

Tiebreaker: 27

posted by MrFrisby at 03:41 PM on May 30, 2016

Sharks

games 6

Longest game 1OT

First Goal - Joe Pavelski

Conn Smythe winner - Joe Pavelski

Player most goals - Joe Pavelski

Player most assists - Joe Thornton

Player Plus/Minus - Tomas Hertl

Player most penalty minutes -Kris Letang

Goalie best save % -Martin Jones

Tiebreaker - 38

posted by ic23b at 05:53 PM on May 30, 2016

1. Winner: San Jose

2. 7 games

3. 2 OT

4. First goal: Crosby

5. Conn Smythe: Pavelski

6. Goals: Couture

7. Assists: Bonino

8. +/-: Rust

9. PIM: Wingels

10.Goalie SV%: Jones

Tiebreaker: 39

posted by rcade at 06:53 PM on May 30, 2016

1. San Jose
2. 6 games
3. 2 OT
4. Malkin
5. Couture
6. Couture
7. Couture
8. Couture
9. Malkin
10. Jones
Tiebreaker: 31

posted by bender at 06:57 PM on May 30, 2016

1. Winner: PIT

2. Number of games: 6 games

3. The longest game: No OT games

4. First player to score a goal: P. Kessel (PIT)

5. Conn Smythe winner: P. Kessel (PIT)

6. Player to score the most goals: P. Kessel (PIT)

7. Player to get the most assists: S. Crosby (PIT)

8. Player with the best plus/minus: K. Letang (PIT)

9. Player with the most penalty minutes: J. Ward (SJS)

10. Starting goaltender with the best save percentage: M. Murray (PIT)

Tiebreaker: Total goals scored in the series: 48 goales

posted by NoMich at 08:13 PM on May 30, 2016

Hopefully I got my picks in under the wire. We were out of town all day long and then dropped the daughter off at grandma's so we could go see "Civil War." Went specifically to see Black Panther and was not disappointed, but man, that Vision character is pretty compelling (I am the Jon Snow of super power characters, I know nothing.)

posted by NoMich at 08:15 PM on May 30, 2016

Yes! I did make it.

posted by NoMich at 08:24 PM on May 30, 2016

Who had Rust to score first? Anyone? Anyone?

posted by MrFrisby at 08:47 PM on May 30, 2016

If NoMich gets 9 points this round, my OCD will ship him a jar of Kentucky's finest burgoo.

posted by MrFrisby at 09:28 PM on May 30, 2016

Ha! That was the first thing I noticed as well.

posted by NoMich at 09:37 PM on May 30, 2016

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