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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