I hate to say it, but I think I wanna pick the Rangers to win this series. I just don't really have a deep trust of Carolina. They can beat a shit team like the Islanders with no problem. They can beat a good team with an ordinary goalie with not too big of a problem. I don't know if they could beat Igor. I HOPE they do, but I just don't know if I can pick them.
I still maintain if not for Raanta, they win the 2022 series in 6. Even if Raanta plays better in that game, the Rangers would have been out in 6. Raanta CHOKED that game away worse than Samsonov (Who I've been slandering since the playoffs started) did in any of the Leafs games this year.
With how rickety Andersen is, there's an off chance we see Raanta by the end of this series, but that's only if Kochetkov blows up or gets hurt after Andersen.