As your lovable writers of the Anaheim Calling community, we have undertaken the risk of putting our expertise on the line by making Round 1 predictions. We’ve each provided our predictions for the Ducks in Round 1 along with our reasoning. We also included our Round 1 predictions beyond the ANA v. SJS series in the table below (all predictions were provided before yesterdays’ Game 1). Feel free to agree or disagree!
John Broadbent
As good as it is that the Ducks have been in fine form heading into the playoffs (13 - 5 in March/April and entering the postseason on a 5 game win streak) and as bad as the Sharks have been down the stretch (10-5 in March/April and entering the postseason on a 6 game losing streak), I still think this series will go 7 games, mostly because the Sharks offense scares me and the Ducks defense (for various reasons but primarily due to injury) hasn’t exactly been consistent this season.