Predicting the Pro Hockey Championship
The Pro Hockey Championship is here. Carolina vs Las Vegas. Catch up on the pro hockey playoffs and make your predictions on OG today.
Two teams remain standing in the Pro Hockey Championship bracket. Vegas clinched the Western Conference by sweeping the President’s Cup trophy-winning Colorado, and Carolina outlasted a Montreal team that refused to lay down. Now, Vegas and Carolina will play in what will be the third championship appearance for both teams. Both teams also have only one championship apiece, and will try to raise the cup for the second time in their franchise history. However, Carolina has done all this since becoming a team in 1997, while Vegas has only been a franchise since 2017, a 20-year difference in their team histories. Who will become the next team to write their name in the history books?
The Pro Hockey Championship Format and Schedule
Carolina and Vegas will play a seven-game series for all of the marbles starting on Tuesday, June 2nd. Carolina will have the home-ice advantage because they and the The first two games will be in Carolina, games three and four will be in Vegas, then game five, if necessary, will go back to Carolina. Should the series go to game six, the teams will get two days rest and head back to Vegas, and if they are all tied up for game seven, they will get two more days rest and finish the series in Carolina. The first team to four wins will be crowned the new champion.
Predicting the Pro Hockey Championship
Carolina last won a championship in 2006, when they defeated Edmonton in seven games. However, they’ve made the playoffs every year since 2019, and they’ve won at least one series every year except 2020. They’ve made it to the conference finals four times during that stretch, with this current campaign the only time they’ve made a championship appearance. This postseason, they’ve played some of the most dominant hockey possible, losing only one game before reaching the finals. They became the first team to reach the final with a 12-1 record since the league adopted the seven-game series format in 1987. Goalie Frederik Anderson has been paramount to their success, posting the best Average Goals Against in the postseason at 1.41, the third-highest Save Percentage at .931, and the most postseason shutouts with three. The only game Carolina has dropped this playoff run was game one last round against Montreal, who was riding the momentum off of back-to-back game sevens. Carolina took the next four games en route to a championship berth.
Vegas made the playoff field as the Pacific Division winner despite having the second-fewest wins in the postseason field. They were able to rack up enough points by losing 17 games in OT, second only to Los Angeles this season. They beat Utah in the first round 4-2, with two of those wins occurring in OT, and Anaheim 4-2, with one game going beyond regulation. That set them up for a series with the President’s Cup trophy-winning Colorado, who were 8-1 in the playoffs to that point. Vegas then pulled off one of the craziest upsets we’ve seen in the postseason, sweeping the team with the best record in the league. Now, they’ll play for a championship for the third time in the nine-year history of their franchise. They’ve only missed the playoffs once in franchise history, and have at least made it to the conference finals five times. To make this run even more impressive, Vegas fired its coach, Bruce Cassidy, on March 29th, making John Tortorella the new head coach with just eight games left in the regular season. Under Tortorella, they’re now 18-4-1 and playing for a shot at a championship.
Odds To Win the Pro Hockey Championship
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