Stanley Cup Playoffs Picks Pool: If You Predicted Any 5-Game Series, You Fail

I'm somewhat inebriated -- go Mavs! -- but I updated the picks pool spreadsheet anyway, in the interest of expediency. I probably screwed up more things than I did correctly, but here's what I done gots so far. Check your score and let me know if I messed it up. I will look at everything again on Wednesday and check my math. I can spell things correctly when I've been drinking, but I make no guarantees as to math. Stupid left brain...

As you can see, provided my math is correct, my buddy Aaron is leading the field after the conference quarterfinals, having predicted seven of eight series correctly. (The only one he missed, SJ/ANA, everyone missed.) In his immediate wake is the entire Dallas contingent of poolies, sans -- of course -- my dumb ass and Snizza's Canadian (read: dumb) ass.

Bringing up the part of the line that looks like Ryan Getzlaf's face is none other than Dirrrrty Souf hip-hop impresario Matty Matty 2000, who went off the rails immediately with his prediction that the Red Sox would win the Stanley Cup. Let's go Caps!

I can only assume that Aaron's prognosticating prowess is somehow related to the incomprehensible acreage of marijuana we used to incinerate while watching playoff hockey some years ago. (I can't speak for him, but I recall getting so addled I couldn't even read the score on the television set. Still, somehow, I could see a backdoor cut play materializing on a power play before it actually happened.) That, or the cessation of said practice. Probably the latter... though it didn't do me any good, clearly.

Corrections to the spreadsheet to follow, surely.

Second round starts Thursday with Chicago at Vancouver. (Yes, the team with more points does not have home-ice advantage. Still, it's better than the way the NBA does it.)
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