Équipe: 2019-20 Équipe personnalisée

Date de création initiale: 27 mai 2020

Publié: 27 mai 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

in part 2, I focused on the series between the Hawks and Oilers, the voting moves Oilers past the qualifying round.
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The focus today is the series between the Rangers and the Hurricanes.
Forwards:
Rangers: The rangers have some real fire power up front with perhaps the hart trophy winner in Panarin. He is super Elite in all situations and has the ability to single-handedly take over games as we have seen plenty of times this season. Mika Zibanejad is an elite shooter to help fill out the Rangers at the top of the lineup. Depth wise, they are decent with guys like Fast who is good defensively.
Hurricanes: While not anyone on their forward group was Panarin level this season, they still have some great talent. Andrei Svechnikov led the way this season, turning into an elite two way winger. Terravainen is another very underrated player who is great player in transition all over the ice. The Canes also have some nice depth up front with the pick up of Trochek to be specific, who could be a real difference maker at times.

Advantage: Hurricanes. While Panarin and Zibanejad are amazing no doubt, Svechnikov, Terravainen, and Aho are no slouches either when it comes to fire power. They also have at least average to above average depth players covering the rest of their forward core.

Defence:
Hurricanes: No question the strength of this team Slavin and Hamilton (if he is ready to play) are both superstar defenceman worthy of Norris votes. Pesce is an great defensively as well. They have some real solid depth defenseman to choose from as well such as Joel Edmundson and Sami Vatenen.
Rangers: The rangers are led by rookie Adam Fox on the back end, who is elite and deserves to be recognized up with Makar and Hughes in the Calder votings. Deangelo is very good offensively, but has struggles defensively. Stall and Trouba were both not very strong this season.

advantage: Canes. Slavin, Hamilton, and Pesce are all good enough to help slow down Panarin.

Goalies:
Hurricanes: This is probably the most interesting position on the team for them, I assume they go with Mrazek, which is a little questionable but at least they have a great blue line to back him up.

Rangers: They probably go ahead and let Shesterkin play, and if he could still play the way he was before the season came to a pause, he could give the Canes a world of problems.

Advantage: This is one area that I feel the Rangers have a confident edge over the Canes, Shesterkin is the real deal.

My consensus: Canes in 4, While their is no doubt in my mind Panarin could steal game by himself for the Rangers, The overall depth is where the Canes will eat away at their lineup.

Players to watch are listed down below.

Everyone has 2 hours to vote using the poll and the winner will move on!