As many of you may know, for the past three or so years TSN SportsCentre brings in a monkey named Maggie at playoff time to predict the matchups in each round (by spinning a wheel of course, she isn't a talking monkey after all). TSN.ca tells me that she went 9-6 last year and now I want to see if I, or we, can do any better.
As such, I will post Maggie's First Round predictions as well as my own and when the Second Rounds starts it will be updated, and so on. Everyone else is welcome to place their predictions as well and if anyone does I will tally everyone at the end of each round to see how we are stacking up each round against each other, and against the monkey. I recognize that last night there were already four games but I assure you that I will still post my original predictions without being influenced by last nights games (which should be evident by my picks, three of which are down one game already).
If anyone else puts in predictions I would urge you to do so sometime today before the games and to try not to be influenced by last nights games if at all possible. Remember, if you have to cheat to beat the monkey it is arguable that the monkey still wins.
So without further ado, here are Maggie's picks followed by my own. And yes I realize that the formatting sort of blows, but this friggin board doesn't like all those spaces apparently and the indent is a pain in the ass to use.
Series Maggie Andrew
DET/CGY__DET___CGY
ANA/MIN__MIN___ANA
VAN/DAL__VAN___DAL
NAS/SJ____NAS__SJ
BUF/NYI___BUF___BUF
NJ/TB_____NJ____TB
ATL/NYR___ATL___NYR
OTT/PIT___PIT___PIT