Especially because of how much they are all underdogs. Last year, none of them made it to round 2, but the only big underdogs in the WCs were NJD and COL. LAK was probably the favourite against VGK and CBJ was a bit of an underdog but they weren't a big underdog. 2017, NSH and TOR were big underdogs, and maybe CGY. But the Rangers weren't really.

This year, Columbus, Dallas, Colorado, and Carolina were all big underdogs going into the series. If they all move on to round 2 that would be 4 big upsets in round 1. And i mean actually big upsets. Not like St. Louis over Winnipeg which isn't really an upset (and wouldn't be if Winnipeg had won, either).

To me Dallas and the Canes were the big underdogs. Colorado has a good team just not deep and Columbus loaded up. Now maybe you consider CBJ the bigger underdog simply due to the match up but to me, Dallas has ver Nashville is the real shocker so far.

Maybe in previous years, but they won the cup last year ...

We'll see, was it a flash in the pan, or a breakthrough

That's fair. I would still say right now that they are a team who knows how to win in the playoffs. They are a good playoff team IMO.

COL, CBJ, STL, NYI all say “get in line”

LOL haha looking back at this ... Why do so many people think St. Louis was a "big underdog"? The only reason they weren't a more common pick for the cup was because of Tampa Bay lol ... they were NOT a big underdog. They were basically picked 50/50 to beat WPG. I had Winnipeg beating then, i'm just saying they were a pretty common pick to go to the final. The words basically half of people were saying (the people who picked St. Louis), "I'm going to go with a huge upset that no one will see coming ... St. Louis over Winnipeg."

Carolina have won all 4 of the last game 7's they played, (these are just the ones I remember, there were the ones in the 02 run to the finals as well) Washington have a history of choking, let's see

They were considered an underdog due to being dead last in January I assume.

LOL haha looking back at this ... Why do so many people think St. Louis was a "big underdog"? The only reason they weren't a more common pick for the cup was because of Tampa Bay lol ... they were NOT a big underdog. They were basically picked 50/50 to beat WPG. I had Winnipeg beating then, i'm just saying they were a pretty common pick to go to the final. The words basically half of people were saying (the people who picked St. Louis), "I'm going to go with a huge upset that no one will see coming ... St. Louis over Winnipeg."

LOL idk how i ended up reading these comments ... just came to this thread and started reading old comments. Always fun to look back on these things ... the Canes have never lost a game 7 since moving there if i'm correct.

That is incorrect, they lost in 7 in 2001 to Boston in the first round, it was the last time they lost befor the 3rd round in the playoffs

That was game 6 against Devils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carolina_Hurricanes_seasons see here

That is incorrect, they lost in 7 in 2001 to Boston in the first round, it was the last time they lost befor the 3rd round in the playoffs

Personally I am a TOR fan but I made a note (literally in my Samsung) the day TOR signed JT Called scary blues talking about how badass the blues might be this year, I hopped on that bandwagon before anyone else knew there was one to hop on.... but because most people seemed to look past em it ended up being a true dark horse that won the cup and I was satisfied as hell when they won (especially because it was the bruins they were up against) lol

They lost in 6 to Boston in 1999.