The Blackhawks beat the Canucks in game six. They will face-off against the Sharks on Sunday at 12:00pm in San Jose. The rest of the schedule will be announced asap. The winner of this series will go on to the Stanley Cup Finals against either the Flyers or the Canadiens.
* Fun fact: The third round standings have a pattern just like the second round. In the West the top two seeds are playing each other and in the East the bottom two seeds are playing each other.
The winner of the Blackhawks and Canucks series will play the Sharks in the Western Conference Finals. As of right now, the Blackhawks are ahead of the series in 3-1. They faceoff at 8:00PM Eastern Time. If the second-seeded Blackhawks beat the third-seeded Canucks they will move on. It is do or die for the Canucks.
Interesting Fact: Look at the seeds for the two conferences.
Western: 1,2,3,5
Eastern: 4,6,7,8
The two conferences don’t have the same seed number left in the playoffs. Also if you put the seeds in numerical order they go 1-8 without missing a number!
The Sharks have advanced to the third round of the playoffs. The Sharks have only been to the third round only once, in 2004. They will play the winner of the Chicago and Vancouver series. Chicago is currently winning the series 3-1.
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