Panthers/Rangers vs The Field to Win the East

[TheDoldrums]

Pretty simple. It's still October so obviously a lot can happen, but from where I sit I think the Panthers and Rangers are the two most likely teams to represent the East in the Stanley Cup.

To be clear I am asking about who will win the Eastern portion of the Stanley Cup bracket. Is the last team standing in the East more likely to be one of the Panthers/Rangers, or one of the other 14 teams? My first instinct was to take the larger group but man...as I go through the other East teams atm I think they would all be fairly significant underdogs to the two aforementioned top contenders. So what say you?

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[Gurglesons]

Cat Rag.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Barring injuries the Panthers are winning the east again. I hate to say it but today they showed that the Rangers shouldn't even be in this conversation.

 

[trick9]

I would have voted Panthers even if you flipped Rangers to the other side with the field.

 

[centipede2233]

Cat rangers easily. Tampa, Toronto and Boston have no chance of going to the final. New Jersey still has growing pains to come with a young team, Carolina is a good team but not good enough.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

I hope the Cats win it again, but there's a lot of new players in their bottom six and on d.

 

[Cats2TheCup]

I hope the Cats win it again, but there's a lot of new players in their bottom six and on d.

Bill Zito picked those players so I’m not too worried about it

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

It's a long season. I don't know who's going to elevate their game this season as a team. The one thing the Panthers have is their proven success. So they have that edge over just about every other team. But we'll see how things look closer to playoff time.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I hope the Cats win it again, but there's a lot of new players in their bottom six and on d.

Didn't seem to bother them last night after the first period.