Hope springs eternal, until that first-round upset proves that life is nasty, brutish, and short.
The National Hockey League has done an excellent (overbearing?) job of marketing the 2015 NHL Bracket Challenge, which is to say that you're probably thinking "WHO COULD PREDICT THIS?" right now, and that makes a marketing executive at the league office very happy.
So: we here at LHH (Ed. note: "we" is code for "Willhoft" because apparently he was bored at work today) decided to create a league that's free to join and open to anyone and everyone.