NHL Playoff Bracket Challenge

For many years now, the National Hockey League has started a NHL playoff bracket challenge. As a fan, you can choose what you expect to happen during the playoffs. This is a way for fans to interact with each other and have fun with making their own bracket. Also, NHL.com gives away prizes to the people with the top three brackets. The way it works is by points, if you guess the winner of a series in the first round you get ten points, if you also guess how many games out of the seven game series you get an extra 3 points.

Link to make your own bracket

If you guess the whole bracket or the closest you could win two tickets to the NHL awards in Las Vegas and a brand new Samsung S6 Edge. To the person who comes in second place, they would win a Samsung Curved SUHD 55' TV and a Samsung S6 Edge and for third place a Samsung S6 Edge. In my opinion, the winners of the bracket challenge are very lucky people because those prizes are pretty expensive for guessing a bracket for a sport.

The way the bracket works is that the eight teams from the west are on the left side and the eight from the est are on the right. The first round matches for the west are St Louis vs. Minnesota, Nashville vs. Chicago, Anaheim vs. Winnipeg, and Vancouver vs. Calgary. On the est the matches are Montreal vs. Ottawa, Tampa vs. Detroit, New York Rangers vs. Pittsburg and Washington vs. New York Islanders. In the first round yo must also pick the number of games the series will finish at out of seven games. From there you choose 4 teams that move on to the second round of the playoffs, you then pick just what team moves on the the third round and so on for the two teams that play in the finals. For the Stanley cup finals you pick how many goals will be scored in that series as well as a winner of the cup. 

In my bracket you can see I've chosen the Chicago Blackhawks to win the cup against the Tampa Bay Lightning with 19 goals scored in the series. I believe the when Kane returns for Chicago in the second round of the playoff, they'll have an unstoppable team.