Playoffs first round

[LandofLincoln]

1. Phoenix
2. San Jose
3. Vancouver
4. St. Louis
5. Detroit
6. Nashville

[nds90]

phoenix
san jose
vancouver
detroit
st. louis
nashville

[IU Hawks fan]

Poll is missing Dallas, who the Hawks would face as of today

[Chris Hansen]

Originally Posted by IU Hawks fan

Poll is missing Dallas, who the Hawks would face as of today

Isn't necessarily the ideal series, but Dallas would be fairly high on my list of preferred opponents for sure.

[Bubba88]

I just want to make the POs first and foremost

[xX Hot Fuss]

It Vancouver and one of STL or Detroit will be the #1 and #2 seed. It really looks like the #3 seed is going to be a so-so team out of the Pacific.

I know the Hawks have had trouble with Phoenix and Dallas as of late but if you had to choose between one of them or Vancouver/Central Winner in the 1st round you take the Pacific winner right?

I think the Hawks will lock up the #6 seed and beat any #3 seed out of the Pacific

[LandofLincoln]

Who cares where the other teams finish. Sure I want a favorable opponent, but having a record where we get home ice advantage would be sweet. Long shot at this point. I'm expecting us to finish 6th. If I was going to make a prediction on the Hawks as a 5th or 7th seed. I go with 5th. I think we only hit 97 points one more than last year.

[LandofLincoln]

Yeah Pacific winner would be fine. Phoenix we owe them payback!

[Sir Psycho T]

The way I look at it is if your going to win the Cup, your going to have to beat Van and Det most likely so when you play them makes little difference.

[Patriks7]

I just have this weird feeling that we're going to drop low enough to play the Canucks. Again.
Funny how we were first in the league at one point...

[Sarava]

I merged these 2 threads...they are the same thing.

[Bubba88]

I still think we will finish 6th and this won't change

[BBH]

I personally don't want to see Phoenix or Nashville this PS. In order:

1) Detroit - Great club, Hawks seem to forget it's game night against an opponent perceived to be a lower team.
2) St. Louis - Their clutch scoring is lacking big time, so don't expect them to make that deep a run in the PO with that kind of need.
3) Vancouver - We beat up on them 2 years in a row and were one goal away from completing a down 3-0 comeback in the series to win it. Luongo can't think straight against the Hawks, especially in the UC, so a 7-game series (preferably one we WIN this time) will be the decider here.
4) San Jose - The Octopus always seems to pick up his play against the Hawks, so a series against SJ (who, now looking at it, might not even make the PO) might be a little more than we bargained for IMO.
5) Phoenix - Smitty's been playing great all season long, esp. against the Chi-Hawks, so Phoenix for me is a formidable opponent.
6) Nashville - This team just plain scares me.

[coldsteelonice84]

Phoenix has dominated us all year and Smith is having a great year. I'd rather face Vancouver than them. San Jose would be ideal.