 what's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today i'm going to be sharing my thoughts and predictions on the second round of the nhl playoffs the first round in my opinion was amazing even though my team got knocked out early i've been watching the playoffs and a lot of the series and a lot of the matchups were great i wasn't expecting to see who advanced i wasn't expecting them to advance but in the previous video i did state that a lot of the matchups for the first round honestly could have went either way and a lot of them didn't go the way i thought they were going to go but i'm happy of who advanced and i'm excited to see what this means leading forward to the playoffs for the rest of the playoffs and to see who's going to win the cup this year so i have the second round matchups in front of me let's get right into this first up is carolina hurricanes versus new york islanders honestly for carolina to knock out the capitals who won the cup last year says a lot for them even though it came down to the last game capitals did one hell of a run for the hurricanes to beat them the champion from last year honestly i thought the carolina hurricanes were the underdog for this matchup but they advanced and new york islanders we already know what happened there for nothing against the pittsburgh penguins penguins didn't even win a single game that says a lot for them but for this matchup here carolina hurricanes versus new york islanders i'm going to say new york islanders this one is super easy for me if new york islanders can win 4-0 against the pittsburgh penguins who won the cup back to back a few years ago i think if they can beat them 4-0 that they can beat carolina hurricanes carolina in the first round i thought were the underdog against washington capitals they beat them but for this one here i feel that they are the underdog as well so i'm going to say new york islanders 4-0 next we have boston broons versus columbus bluejackets boston beat toronto i did want to see that happen sorry toronto fans but with that being said for the toronto team this year i do respect what they've done they even though they didn't advance to the next rounds they did great things this year they had a hell of a year and we should be happy for that so i do respect them even though i don't like the team i can respect them but against columbus bluejackets who won 4-0 in their series that was awesome against the top team this year in fact against tampa bay lightning who was the top team for 99 of the year they beat them for nothing that says a lot for columbus bluejackets for this match up here it's going to be very interesting and honestly i feel like it could go either way but boston broons if they advance i'm happy with that i'm okay with that but i would rather see columbus bluejackets advance they have so many both teams have great players and great things going for them but columbus bluejackets i would like to see them advance this year so that's my pick right now i'm going to say it's going to be four two uh boston broons may get more than two wins but i feel that's a safe route for me is to say four two for columbus bluejackets next is the western conference we have st louis blues versus dallas stars this isn't the matchup i thought was going to happen i thought it was going to be the jets versus the predators that obviously is not happening because st louis beat the jets the stars beat the predators but in this match here st louis blues versus dallas stars dallas stars has a great team a lot of great players they've been doing great things on the ice this year so it's no wonder that they advanced uh in that match up in the first round i thought it could go either way and it didn't go the way i wanted or the way i thought but i'm happy that dallas stars are advancing they're a great team this year and again st louis blues who have a one hell of a rookie goalie right now they have other great players as well but that goalie is on fire and has been for a while now so honestly i'm going to say st louis blues and i'm going to say it's going to be four three i think this one here may go down to the last game i'm going to but i'm going to say it's going to go for the st louis blues because to me that makes the most sense they've been on fire and i didn't expect them to advance i thought the jets would advance but i'm going to say the st louis blues are going to advance in this match up here and go on to the uh semifinals the last one here is san jose sharks versus colorado avalanche this is another one that i didn't expect that to happen the sharks beat out vegas in the last in the last game not last game in the last game in the first round which i can respect vegas this year for their second year in the league uh to make the playoffs again is awesome they didn't advance this year they didn't do as great in the playoffs like they did last year but they still did great things the sharks advanced and then colorado beat calgary flames who i thought would possibly win the cup this year that's obviously not happening so that's why i'm extremely excited to see what happens and who wins the cup this year so it's going to be it's going to be tight in my opinion a lot of the matches could go either way right now but sharks versus colorado avalanche this one here the sharks they have a lot of great players so does colorado avalanche the sharks i know people are going to hate me for this but i'm not a fan of eric carlsson i'm a otawa senator's fan and whenever he was on otawa i just i didn't like him when he was on otawa i don't like him that he's on the sharks i would have rathered him get traded to a team that i don't like so i didn't really have to care about him being in the stanley cut playoffs ever but the fact that he got on the sharks which i think have a phenomenal team it's very possible that they will advance this year but my pick is going to be colorado avalanche just because they are a dominant team they've been doing great things this year and i didn't expect them to advance against caligary flames i thought caligary would have knocked them out early went the other way around so i'm going to say colorado avalanche are going to win the series not based on eric carlsson i'm not basing my whole pick for avalanche beating the sharks based on eric carlsson but i think avalanche are going to beat the sharks i'm going to say this one here is going to be four three i think if the sharks can go against the vegas and make it go to the last game i think the the avalanche and the sharks could go down to the last game so it's going to be exciting to see what happens there but like i said four three for that one so these are my predictions for the second round of the nhl playoffs comment down below your predictions who do you think is going to advance do you guys agree with all of my opinions and everything i said for the second round i know i might get heat for eric carlsson that statement i just made but it's the truth and i don't want to lie on my channel and i never will lie on my channel so um that's not why i based my pick on avalanche i just think avalanche even though the sharks have a lot of great players this year martin jones has been phenomenal i think colorado avalanche if they could beat the team that i thought was going to win the cup this year i think they can go really far so these are my picks right now comment down below what you guys think i will leave this video here hope you guys did enjoy i'll see you guys in the next video please take care peace