Rejoint: juill. 2021
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I love the question. I don’t expect either team to win two rounds, but the Metro is close enough that I think it’s going to boil down to who gets hot at the right time, so I give the Rangers about a 1/4 chance. Minnesota may get an easier matchup than New York in the first round if they don’t drop into a wildcard spot, but then they’ll have to get by Colorado or a team that had to be at the top of their game to beat Colorado. I don’t think they can do that, so I’ll give the Rangers the edge on the A clause.
Now let’s look at the B clause. Unless Copp gets hurt he is going to play in 50% of the Rangers’ games. If Minnesota wins two rounds, that’ll be 8 team wins. I expect Fleury to be their starter, so he’ll most likely get at least 4 of them if he’s healthy, but I could see a scenario where Fleury loses a couple of games and they switch to Talbot and turn things around. Slight edge to Copp there too, so he get my vote.