Which two teams do you think will meet in the Eastern Conference finals?
I've been impressed with the way that the Boston Bruins have stepped up their play in the playoffs and beat the Buffalo Sabres in the last round. So, now the Bruins will play the Philadelphia Flyers in the semi-finals, and if they can win, they'll play either the Montreal Canadiens or the Pittsburgh Penguins. Oh, this Bruins fan will be happy in either case.
The Canadiens are the traditional rivals of the Bruins, and competition between these two teams is always great. However, a Boston-Pittsburgh series would also be fabulous, now that Marc Savard has returned to the Boston lineup after his head injury from Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke. I can't decide which I'd rather have!
Traditional rivalry and potentially easier match up with Montreal or the controversy with Pittsburgh? Oh, and by the way....it's Tuukka Time!
While Boston did dispatch Buffalo in round one, they beat a flawed team that relied too much on goaltending and not enough on putting the puck in the net. The Thomas Vanek injury derailed Buffalo more than anything else, including Rask. In the meantime, the Flyers overcame a retooled New Jersey lineup that had firepower thanks to the addition of Ilya Kovalchuk.
They have solid blueliners, and Boston struggles to score goals. Philadelphia will crash the net and make Boston play physically, which will impede their forwards. Savard's return may be a wild card, but I don't see Boston going any further.As for the other series...let's be honest on two fronts: 1) Montreal used all their juice getting back past Washington, and 2) Jaroslav Halak is not going to be an impenetrable wall again and carry the Habs should they fall behind 3-1 to the defending champs.
Pittsburgh is a seasoned team with plenty of experience and four lines of talent. From where I sit, it looks like a battle of Pennsylvania in the Eastern Conference Finals...Pens over the Habs in five, and Philadelphia over Boston in six.
The Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams, organized in three divisions of five teams each. The three division winners and the non-division winner with the best record are seeded 1 through 4 for the playoffs in order of their records, with all remaining non-division winners seeded 5 through 8. This leaves open the possibility that a #2 seed could be a non-division winner.
Home-court advantage in a playoff series is decided by record, not by seeding, so if the #4 and #5 teams meet in a playoff series in which the #5 team has the better record, the #5 team would have home-court advantage. The reasoning behind this seeding arrangement is because a non-division winner could have a better record than the winners of the two divisions other than the non-division winning team in question. If the three division winners were seeded 1 through 3 for the playoffs in order of their records, and all non-division winners seeded 4 through 8, it would be possible for the two best teams of the conference to meet in the Conference Semifinals.
This actually happened in the 2006 NBA Playoffs when the two best teams in the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks, both from the Southwest Division, faced one another in the Western Conference Semifinals while the 3rd seed, the Northwest Division-leading Denver Nuggets, had fewer wins than the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th seeds. The NBA proposed and approved of the current format to ensure that the best two teams of a conference can meet no earlier than the Conference Finals. The Eastern Conference playoffs are divided into two preliminary rounds followed by the Eastern Conference Finals, with the winner of the Conference Championship facing the Western Conference champion in the NBA Finals to determine the champion.
All playoff series are best-of-seven. The current divisional alignment was adopted at the start of the 2004–05 season, when the Charlotte Bobcats began play as the NBA's 30th franchise. This necessitated the move of the New Orleans Hornets from the Eastern Conference's Central Division to the newly-created Southwest Division of the Western Conference.
E Western Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams, and organized in three divisions of five teams each. Since 2006, the three division winners and the non-division winner with the best record are seeded 1 through 4 for the playoffs in order of their record, with all remaining non-division winners seeded 5 through 8. This leaves open the possibility that a #2 seed could be a non-division winner.
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