DobberHockey’s Expert Panel – First Round

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2009-04-13

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As the group, the DobberHockey Crew has put together a 22-8 record over the last two postseasons. Individually, our success has varied from person to person. Average it out and what you have is as strong a prognosticator as you will find. Here are the individual and averaged predicitions for the first round of the NHL playoffs.

 

 

*Note: charts will be updated as the crew submits their responses, so be sure to check back!

Eastern Conference Picks:

 

Expert BOS VS. MTL WAS VS. NYR NJ VS. CAR PIT VS. PHI
Dobber Bos in 5 Was in 7 NJ in 6 Pit in 5
Jeff Angus Bos in 5 Was in 6 Car in 7 Pit in 7
Chris Boyle Bos in 6 Was in 5 Car in 6 Pit in 6
Matt Bugg Bos in 5 Was in 6 NJ in 7 Phi in 7
Ian Fergusson Bos in 5 Was in 6
NJ in 7
Pit in 7
Justin Goldman Bos in 5
Was in 6
Car in 7
Pit in 5
Chris Holloway Bos in 6
Was in 6
Car in 7
Phi in 7
Marty Kwiaton Bos in 6
Was in 5
NJ in 7
Pit in 7
Ryan Ma Mtl in 7
Was in 6
Car in 7
Pit in 6
Eric Maltais Bos in 5
Was in 6
NJ in 6
Pit in 7
Stuart McDonald Bos in 6
NYR in 6
Car in 5
Pit in 7
Russ Miller Bos in 4
Was in 6
NJ in 5
Phi in 6
Tom Reeve Bos in 4 Was in 6 Car in 5 Pit in 5
J Status Bos in 6 Was in 7 NJ in 7 Pit in 6
Andrew Walker Bos in 5
Was in 6
Car in 7
Phi in 6
Consensus Bos in 5 Was in 6 Car in 7 Pit in 6

 

 

Western Conference Picks:

 

Expert SJ VS. ANA DET VS. CBJ VAN VS. STL CHI VS. CGY
Dobber SJ in 4 Det in 7 Van in 7 Cal in 7
Jeff Angus SJ in 4 Det in 6 Van in 7 Chi in 5
Chris Boyle SJ in 5 Det in 6 Van in 6 Cal in 7
Matt Bugg SJ in 7 Det in 6 Van in 5 Chi in 6
Ian Fergusson SJ in 6
Det in 5
Van in 5
Cal in 6
Justin Goldman SJ in 6
Det in 7
St.L in 7
Chi in 6
Chris Holloway SJ in 6
Det in 5
St.L in 7
Cal in 7
Marty Kwiaton SJ in 5
CBJ in 6
St.L in 6
Chi in 7
Ryan Ma Ana in 7
Det in 6
Van in 5
Chi in 6
Eric Maltais SJ in 6
Det in 5
St.L in 7
Cal in 6
Stuart McDonald SJ in 7
CBJ in 6
Van in 6
Cal in 6
Russ Miller SJ in 5
Det in 4
Van in 5
Chi in 5
Tom Reeve SJ in 7 Det in 5 Van in 5 Chi in 6
J Status SJ in 6 Det in 5 Van in 5 Chi in 6
Andrew Walker SJ in 7
CBJ in 6
Van in 6
Chi in 5
Consensus SJ in 6 Det in 6 Van in 6 Chi in 6

 

 

Picks for the Cup Final, Winner, Conn Smythe and Top Scorer:

 

Expert Cup Final Cup Winner Conn Smythe Top Scorer
Dobber SJ vs. Pit San Jose in 6 Joe Thornton Sidney Crosby
Jeff Angus Bos vs. Van Boston in 7 Zdeno Chara Marc Savard
Chris Boyle Van vs. Pit Vancouver in 6 Roberto Luongo Sidney Crosby
Matt Bugg Det vs. Phi Detroit in 7 Mike Richards Mike Richards
Ian Fergusson Van vs. NJ
Vancouver in 7
Roberto Luongo
Zach Parise
Justin Goldman Det vs. Bos
Boston in 6
Tim Thomas
Alex Ovechkin
Chris Holloway Was vs. Det
Washington in 6
Alexander Ovechkin
Alex Ovechkin
Marty Kwiaton SJ vs. Was
San Jose in 6
Patrick Marleau
Alex Ovechkin
Ryan Ma Van vs. Car
Carolina in 7
Cam Ward
Daniel Sedin
Eric Maltais SJ vs. NJ
San Jose in 6
Joe Thornton Joe Thornton
Stuart McDonald SJ vs. NYR
San Jose in 5
H. Lundqvist
Joe Thornton
Russ Miller Det vs. Bos
Detroit in 6
Pavel Datsyuk Pavel Datsyuk
Tom Reeve Van vs. Pit Pittsburgh in 6 Roberto Luongo Sidney Crosby
J Status SJ vs. Was San Jose in 7 Joe Thornton  Alex Ovechkin
Andrew Walker SJ vs. Phi
San Jose in 6
Dan Boyle
Joe Thornton
Consensus SJ vs. Pit/Bos San Jose

Luongo/Thornton

Thornton

 

 

Rounding out the predicted Top 5:

 

Expert 2nd Scorer 3rd Scorer 4th Scorer 5th Scorer
Dobber Joe Thornton Evgeni Malkin Patrick Marleau Sergei Gonchar
Jeff Angus Daniel Sedin Henrik Sedin Sidney Crosby Pavel Datsyuk
Chris Boyle Evgeni Malkin Joe Thornton Daniel Sedin Eric Staal
Matt Bugg Pavel Datsyuk Marian Hossa H. Zetterberg Johan Franzen
Ian Fergusson Henrik Sedin
Daniel Sedin
Joe Thornton Marc Savard
Justin Goldman Marc Savard
Pavel Datsyuk Phil Kessel
Eric Staal
Chris Holloway Pavel Datsyuk  Marian Hossa
 Mike Green
 Mike Richards
Marty Kwiaton P. Marleau
Marc Savard
Mike Green
Joe Thornton
Ryan Ma Henrik Sedin
Eric Staal
Anton Babchuk
Ryan Kesler
Eric Maltais Sidney Crosby
Evgeni Malkin
Zach Parise
Patrik Elias
Stuart McDonald Chris Drury
Evgeni Malkin
Patrick Marleau
Scott Gomez
Russ Miller Johan Franzen
Marc Savard
Joe Thornton
H. Zetterberg
Tom Reeve Henrik Sedin Evgeni Malkin Marc Savard Mats Sundin
Jacob Status Joe Thornton Evgeni Malkin Sidney Crosby Daniel Sedin
Andrew Walker Daniel Briere
Simon Gagne
Patrick Marleau
Eric Staal
Consensus Crosby Datsyuk Malkin/Ovech 
D. Sedin/Savard

 

 

About the DobberHockey Crew:

 

Darryl "Dobber" Dobbs – Pens the Daily Ramblings, Monthly Rankings, and the weekly column "The Dobotomy". He also appears thrice weekly on thehockeynews.com.

 

Jeff Angus – Author of "Angus Unleashed" and Senior Writer for DobberHockey. Angus' thoughts sometimes appear in the Daily Ramblings as well.

 

Chris Boyle – Author of the monthly "Roto Rankings", which can be seen here on the 15th of every month. 

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Matthew Bugg – Senior Writer for DobberHockey and author of Saturday's "Bugg Bytes" and co-author of the DobberHockey Fantasy Prospects Report.

 

Ian Fergusson – Author of the monthly column "An Expert's Audit", which can be seen here on the 12th of every month.

 

Justin Goldman – Author of the weekly column "School of Block", which can be found here every Monday.

 

Chris "Hallsey" Holloway – Subs in for Dobber in the Ramblings during those well-deserved vacations!

 

Marty "Mapletree" Kwiaton – Has penned the weekly NHL picks while the Digital Monkey is on leave. The Weekly Picks can be found here every Friday.

 

Ryan Ma – Author of "The Wild West" and known for his Maaasquito Buzzings, which can be found here every Tuesday.

 

Eric Maltais – Author of "Croaks, from the Fantasy Frog" and winner of this year's DobberHockey Expert League.

 

Stuart McDonald – Author of "Stu's Slant", which can be seen here every Saturday.

 

Russ "Comish" Miller – Pens "Eastern Edge", which can be found here every Thursday.

 

Tom Reeve – Creator and author of the weekly "Looking Ahead" feature, seen here every Friday.

 

J Status – Editor-in-chief of DobberBaseball.com, he also provides us with the "Status Report" every second Wednesday.

 

Andrew Walker – Hosts the monthly fantasy hockey show "Dobber Nation". Past guests have included John Buccigross, Kris Versteeg, Randy Moller, Ray Ferraro, Evander Kane and Greg Wyshynski. Found here on the 25th of each month.

 

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