Brain Crowned the Winner as Penguins win cup!

Following a thrilling game 7 victory, the Pittsburgh Penguins have won the 2009 Stanley Cup! Perhaps more importantly, Brain has won the 1st ever "Drummer John's NHL Playoff Pool"! Had it not been for a complete collapse from Shane, it may have been a tighter finish, but Brain managed to pull off a convincing win with a 25 point cushion on 2nd place. Rajwinda and Buck made it interesting bringing in a Stanley Cup round best 85 points each after both predicting a Penguins game 7 win, along with each winning one of the bonuses. Rajwinda predicted 28 goals scored and had the closest prediction to 31 without going over. Buck was the only one to predict Malkin to win the Conn Smyth trophy as playoff MVP. Yours truly managed to win the game 7 bonus with a prediction of 10, and Maxim Talbot's game winning goal coming at 10:07 of the 2nd period. I rule.

Here is the final leaderboard for you to view, savor, bookmark and revisit over and over and perhaps show your grandchildren:

Handle	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
Brain	85	70	65	60	280
Rajwinda	90	40	40	85	255
Buck	80	30	50	85	245
Huggylicious	90	30	85	35	240
Jds308	70	80	25	60	235
Shane	45	110	65	0	220
Wildeman	75	80	40	25	220
Red	90	50	50	0	190

This will remain on this web site permanently at this location, where as the leaderboard on the side bar will eventually be replaced with a new one.

Thanks to everyone for participating in this 2009 NHL playoffs pool, it made following hockey without my beloved Oilers still interesting and worth watching. I hope you will all join again next season. I plan on doing something a little more advanced for the regular season, perhaps picking fantasy teams or maybe even more of an NFL style game(s) of the week system. I will think about it and find something that I can manage without spending my life doing it, and that is not to much of a commitment for the participants involved. Let me know if you have any suggestions, feedback or ideas.

GO OILERS!

Game 7 - Stanley Cup Final

Oh yeah! What better way to end the playoffs and crown this years Stanley Cup Champions than with a game 7! So here we go:

Choose 1 number between 0-20, this number will represent the minute on the score clock that the game winning goal is scored at. You don't need to choose a period, only a minute. Your minute will count in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and all overtime periods. For example, if I were to pick "19" and the game winning goal is scored at 19:21 of the 2nd period I would win the game 7 bonus. If the game winning goal is scored at 19:11 of the 1st, or 19:33 of the 3rd, or even if it's scored at 19:00 of the 2nd OT period I would win the bonus. You do not need to predict the period, or the seconds, only the whole minute. Make sense? Good.

Let's have your predictions in no later than this Friday, June 12 by 6:00pm ET.