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We’ve hit the NHL’s final four and it starts Saturday in the Eastern Conference. But with apologies to the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning, there’s a large segment of the hockey cognoscenti who think the eventual winner of the Stanley Cup is once again coming from the West.
Game One between the Anaheim Ducks and Chicago Blackhawks is Sunday in the Honda Center, and the winner of that series almost certainly rates a prohibitive favorite to raise silver sometime next month. It’s pretty much the same scenario as last season, when the Blackhawks were eliminated in overtime of Game Seven by the Los Angeles Kings, who then took care of the Rangers in five games.