Here are the individual and averaged predicitions for the first round of the NHL playoffs from Dobber, Angus, Bugg, Ma, Miller, and more! The panel’s consensus picks boast an impressive 42-18 record over the past four seasons! But, the panel was a very un-expert-like 8-7 last year, a dissapointing spring after posting a solid 12-3 record the year before. On to the picks…

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Eastern Conference:

Western Conference:

Cup Final and Top Scorer:

Scoring Race:

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, as well as over at the Puck Daddy blog on Yahoo! every Thursday.

Jeff Angus – Author of “Angus Unleashed” and DobberHockey Senior Writer/Manager. Angus’ thoughts appear in the daily ramblings on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday each week.

Matthew Bugg – Senior Writer for DobberHockey, author of Saturday’s “Bugg Bytes,” and co-author of the DobberHockey Fantasy Prospects Report.

Ryan Ma – Author of “The Wild West” here at DobberHockey every Tuesday.

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

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.

Gates Imbeau – Runs the Black Aces, otherwise known as the DobberHockey farm team.

Marty “Mapletree” Kwiaton and Anthony Lancione – Pen the weekly Saturday picks.

Steve Laidlaw – One of the premier writers on DobberHockey's Black Aces squad and newest columnist of our upcoming feature “Cage Match”

Tim Lucarelli – Author of Dub & Chase, which highlights up and coming NHL stars each Sunday.

Dave Poleck – Contributes the “Looking Ahead” article each Friday here at DobberHockey.

Jeffrey Renaud – Highlights a different NHL prospect each Saturday with his Prospect Prescription.

Alessandro Seren Rosso – Stops by here at DobberHockey every second week to give you the inside scoop on Russian hockey players/prospects – “Rosso on Russia.”

Brian Kom – Hosts the Dobber Nation radio show on the 25th of each month.