The Good Guys Won- Carolina Beats Washington

Could this playoff series begin a trend in the NHL? Let’s hope so!

Upsets make playoffs compelling, but I’m not sure seeing all four division champs fall in the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs make the next three rounds as compelling as they could be.

We won’t be asking if the Tampa Bay Lightning are the NHL’s greatest team ever. We won’t be compelled by a quasi-local team, the Nashville Predators, trying to bring a title to Tennessee. There’s only one 100-point scorer left in the playoffs, Boston’s Brad…