And away we go...

Well with some six months and a bit of the regular season behind us, we now reach the annual quest for Lord Stanley's beverage cup.

Sixteen teams remain on skates as we head into the second season, a few surprise candidates combined with the usual suspects of NHL playoff time.

We'll track each series from this vantage point on the portal, updates on each can be found by clicking on the links below which will take you to our page for each of the eight series of the opening round and those that come along beyond that.

Sit back, load up on snacks and beverages, the real hockey season is set to begin.

Stanley Cup Final

Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks (  Boston wins the Stanley Cup 4 games to 3)

HockeyNation Crystal ball

Boston Bruins / Vancouver Canucks -- Canucks in six 
Vancouver Canucks to be the Stanley Cup champions for 2010-11


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Conference Finals

NHL Schedule Conference Finals

EAST

Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins ( Boston wins the series 4 games to 3)

WEST

San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks (Vancouver Wins the series 4 games to 1)

HockeyNation Crystal ball Conference finals

Tampa Bay Lightning / Boston Bruins-- Bruins in six
San Jose Sharks / Vancouver Canucks-- Canucks in six



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Round Two

NHL Schedule Second round

EAST

Tampa Bay Lightning  and Washington Capitals (TB wins the series 4 games to 0)
Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers (Boston wins the series 4 games to 0)

WEST

Nashville Predators and Vancouver Canucks  ( Vancouver wins the series 4 games to 2)
Detroit Red Wings and San Jose Sharks (The series is tied at 3 games each) 

HockeyNation Crystal ball second round




Tampa Bay Lightning / Washington Capitals-- Capitals in Six
Boston Bruins / Philadelphia Flyers-- Flyers in Seven
Nashville Predators /Vancouver Canucks -- Canucks in Six
Detroit Red Wings / San Jose Sharks -- Red Wings in Seven

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Round One

NHL Quarterfinal Schedule 


HockeyNation Round One Notebook review Chapter One


EAST

New York Rangers and Washington Capitals  (WASH wins series 4 games to 1)
Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers  (PHI  wins the series 4 games to 3)
Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins (BOS wins the series 4 games to 3)
Tampa Bay Lightning and Pittsburgh Penguins (TB wins the series 4 games to 3)

WEST

Chicago Black Hawks and Vancouver Canucks (VAN wins the series 4 games to 3)
Nashville Predators and Anaheim Ducks ( NASH wins the series 4 games to 2)
Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks (SJ wins the series 4 games to 2 )
Phoenix Coyotes and Detroit Red Wings (DET wins series 4 games to 0)

HockeyNation Crystal ball says:


And for the sake of finger pointing and ha ha's later on, here's how your humble servant believes the first round will shake out.


New York Rangers / Washington Capitals-- Capitals in Five
Buffalo Sabres / Philadelphia Flyers-- Flyers in Five
Canadiens / Bruins-- Bruins in Seven
Lightning / Penguins-- Lightning in Six
Blackhawks / Canucks-- Canucks in Five
Kings / Sharks-- Sharks in Five
Coyotes / Red Wings-- Red Wings in Five
Ducks / Predators-- Predators in Seven