(1/) You make some interesting predictions, Espen. I certainly hope that a team from #Canada🇨🇦 (particularly other than a #Habs team that has won 24 #stanleycup |s [10 of them since the #leafs last won such a 🏆]) manages to in 2020 put to an end such a trophy-winning #drought https://twitter.com/espenstrand/status/1290288856026107905
(2/) that has now persisted for over 20 years (26 as of the end of the #StanleyCupPlayoffs, but 29 if the #Habs are excluded). I now will try to address your predictions:

#letsgooilers and #flames will advace!”

The @NHLFlames, between the #Alberta teams, managed to
(3/) convincingly win #Game1 of the relevant conference #8thfinal; the #Oilers, @ 1 point during the same game of their 8th final, almost got manhandled by contrast and would end up losing by two goals.

#gohabsgo will get the #1 pick!

My initial impression of the
(4/) #Habs- #LetsgoPens series was one of a near-sweep by the @penguins🐧 of the #GoHabsGo crew. Although that outcome may still happen, the Habs have #momentum, via a #game1 win, that the #Leafs ( #shutout by #Korpisalo🇫🇮 & the #CBJ over the weekend) & #Canucks (also shut out
(5/) but by #Stalock🇺🇸 & the #mnwild ) do not yet have and may not even get even during #game2.

#oilers go out in the conference finals vs. the #avs!

I would like to believe that the Oilers will even make it to the #westernconference final but I still have my doubts
(6/) because of how #atrocious #defence & a lack of timely scoring in #game1 of that conference #8thfinal doomed their chances to win a rather crucial game. The #NHLJets in the 2018 #StanleyCupPlayoffs appeared in a conference final although no team from #Canada🇨🇦 became a
(7/) conference #semifinal|ist last year ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NHL_franchise_post-season_droughts#Canadian_droughts). 2011 was the last year during which a Canadian @NHL team appeared in a #StanleyCup final.

I would like to mention, to wrap up this thread, that the #Canucks , #Flames , #LetsGoOilers , #Gojetsgo , #gosensgo &
( 8/8 ) #gohabsgo crews have each, following the #Leafs’ 1967 #StanleyCup win, made it to that round, with both #Alberta teams and the #Habs winning that trophy @ least 1 each. #tmltalk #leafstalk #oilerstalk #canuckstalk #oilers #flames #leafssuck #canuckssuck #oilerssuck
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