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Stanley Cup Final and Conn Smythe predictions

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And then there were two.

The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night. Excited? You should be.

theScore's NHL editors make their Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy predictions below.

Stanley Cup Final

Penguins vs. Predators

Editor Pick
Josh Gold-Smith Penguins
Craig Hagerman Predators
Flip Livingstone Penguins
Esten McLaren Predators
Ian McLaren Predators
Sean O'Leary Penguins
Sonny Sachdeva Penguins
Navin Vaswani Penguins
Cory Wilkins Predators
Josh Wegman Penguins
  • It's tight, but we're going 6-4 in favor of the Penguins repeating as champions.

Conn Smythe Predictions

Editor Player
Gold-Smith Evgeni Malkin
Hagerman Pekka Rinne
Livingstone Sidney Crosby
Esten McLaren P.K. Subban
Ian McLaren Rinne
O'Leary Malkin
Sachdeva Malkin
Vaswani Malkin
Wilkins Rinne
Wegman Malkin
  • Five of us are picking Malkin to win his second Conn Smythe Trophy. Geno leads the NHL in playoff scoring with seven goals and 24 points in 20 games.
  • Rinne's the favorite in Vegas, for what it's worth.
  • It's kind of amazing that Crosby, last year's Conn Smythe winner, gets only one vote. His 20 points rank second among all postseason skaters.

Who you got?

Conference finals, overall results

Your hardworking and extremely handsome editors fared pretty well in the third round, thanks to all of us picking Pittsburgh to advance over Ottawa. (Sorry, Senators fans.)

Editor 3rd-round score Overall
Gold-Smith 2/2 8/14
Hagerman 2/2 9/14
Livingstone 1/2 6/14
Ian McLaren 1/2 6/14
O'Leary 2/2 7/14
Sachdeva 2/2 9/14
Vaswani 2/2 9/14
Wilkins 2/2 11/14
Wegman 2/2 9/14
  • Mr. Wilkins is a prophet, and after a respectable 5-for-8 first round, he's been perfect ever since. He's got the the Predators winning the Cup and Rinne the Conn Smythe. So congratulations in advance, Nashville.

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