Sleeper Team who could win the Cup

[jgerson]

A team that is under the radar but has as much talent as anyone in the NHL is the St. Louis Blues. They finished with 99 points during the regular season which is great considering they were without Pronger, Tkachuk, Weight, and Osgood. This team has playoff experience and if Osgood and the St. Louis defense plays as well as they did in Game 1 against Vancouver they can beat anyone. I got a feeling that if St. Louis faces Detroit somewhere down the road that Osgood will play huge. If they can stay healthy this team could go all the way.

 

[superfan]

Iagree that the sleeper team in the west could be the Blues. I think the addition of Goalie Chris Osgood who, if not a great goaltender, does have lots of playoff experience and a Stanley Cup ring, gives the Blues some new found confidence. They also have the advantage of getting to avoid the Red Wings and Avs till the conference finals. If the Blues can get past the Stars they would get to take on either the Wings or the Avs off of a series that is sure to take something out of either.

On the East side I think the team that is flying low are the Washington Capitals. They are a team loaded with proven playoff scorers and have ridden Ole "the goalie" Kolzig to the Stanley Cup finals once before. Other than Marty Brodeur and an aging and erratic Eddie Belfour their is not a lot of proven playoff play among the Eastern goalies.