NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Tue, 11 April 2023 10:46

Adam wrote on Tue, 11 April 2023 13:35 Dragon_Matt wrote on Tue, 11 April 2023 10:30 They will be without Makar, so let's F'in GOOOOOOOOOOOOO The Avs swept us in the playoffs, and then have beat us in overtime in both games this year. Would love to throw that monkey off our back tonight and stomp all over it. MacKinnon has been on fire lately. I'd love to see us play him really hard and keep him in check. There's a good chance we have to go through these guys if we want to get to the Finals, so gaining a little confidence that we can beat them would be huge. We also didn't have Ekholm the last two times we played them did we? Hopefully he can help keep him in check. The way the Avs have been coming on of late, I suspect this will be a preview of the WCF again, though to be honest I haven't looked at the different matchups to see if that's even possible, or if we'd meet in the semi.

We can't meet them before that. They will finish 1 or 2 in the Central (Norris) Division, while we're going to finish 1 or 2 in the West (Smythe) Division. Their most likely first round opponents are Seattle, Los Angeles or Minnesota (with a slight chance of playing Dallas) and then in the second round they'll face the survivor of that group.

Meanwhile our first round opponents are either Los Angeles or Winnipeg with a tiny chance at the Kraken. Then we play the winner of the Golden Knights and the survivor of that other group.

In the Western Conference Final is the first chance we have to play Colorado (or Dallas or Minnesota).

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