NHL Playoff Predictions

Eastern Conference

New York over Ottawa 4-2
Boston over Washington 4-3
New Jersey over Florida 4-2
Pittsburgh over Philadelphia 4-3

New York over New Jersey 4-2
Pittsburgh over Boston 4-2

Pittsburgh over New York 4-2

Western Conference

Vancouver over Los Angeles 4-3
St Louis over San Jose 4-1
Chicago over Phoenix 4-3
Detroit over Nashville 4-3

Vancouver over Chicago 4-2
St Louis over Detroit 4-2

St Louis over Vancouver 4-3

Stanley Cup Finals
St Louis over Pittsburgh 4-3

Wrestlemania 28 Picks

I can't believe this is my first blog of 2012. In the coming weeks will be my baseball predictions, NHL and NBA playoff picks and much more. To start the prediction season off, i'm making my picks of who will win at Wrestlemania 28. Enjoy!

Randy Orton def Kane
Eve and Beth Phoenix def Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos
Big Show def Cody Rhodes for the Intercontinental Championship
Team Johnny (David Otunga, Mark Henry, The Miz, Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre) def Team Teddy (Santino Marella, Kofi Kingston, R-Truth, Zack Ryder, The Great Khali and Booker T)
Sheamus def Daniel Bryan for the World Heavyweight Championship
Chris Jericho def CM Punk for the WWE Championship
The Undertaker def Triple H to go to 20-0 at Wrestlemania
The Rock def John Cena

For more information go to http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas from your friends at BCP. That's right, Christmas. And Happy New Year!

Angels and Demons

The Angels are the new Yankees. By signing Abert Pujols and C.J. Wilson, the Angels spent over #300 million. The only team thats spent more in one off-season, thats right the Yankees twice (2007 and 2008 off-seasons). The Angels have watched the Rangers win the division and AL pennant each of the last two seasons. Pujols upgrades 1B and pretty much means the team is not convinced Kendrys Morales will ever be back to 100%. Wilson adds depth to an already potent rotation. But does these two signings make them the favorite to win the AL? Their offense improves with Pujols and makes Torii Hunter and Mark Trumbo better. Still not better than Texas. But if Neftali Feliz becomes an ace starter, they won't miss Wilson. The Angels have taken the title of mystery team from the Phillies. I guess the Angels want to be the Yankees of the west coast. Or maybe they want to be the official team of Los Angeles and make the Dodgers irrevelevant.

We're Getting Creamed Out There Reid

Andy Reid needs to be fired before this season is over. The play-calling is without a doubt the worst in the league and the defensive isn't much better. Are you shocked? The team spent lots of money to bring in talent needed to get him over the hump and back to the Super Bowl. But his lack of efficent play-calling and clock management has resulted in another wasted season. He had a good run as coach of the Eagles, but now its time for him to go. Saying you need to do a better job is like people making New Year's resolutions. Sure it sounds good, but what have you actually done? It's time the Eagles give their fans something to cheer about again. But knowing the Eagles, he'll stay as coach for the rest of the season and then be given another year after that. He's clearly lost the locker room. Usually when that happens, a change is made. That being said, I pose this question to you. Should the Eagles fire Andy Reid? Leave a comment below, or reply to me on twitter (@briandutill) with your thoughts.

Astros to the AL

So its official. The Astros are heading to the AL. The will be in the AL West with in-state rival Texas, Oakland (or wherever they end up), Seattle and LA Angels (whichever city they call themselves now). This will mean interleague games all season long. It was a condition of Jim Crane's purchase of the franchise. He will get a $70 million discount for moving them to the AL. In an off-season filled with big free agents, terrible new uniforms and managers changing like underpants, the last thing we need is to see a playoff spot be decided by interleague play. Here is the question, Is the Astros move to the American League good or bad for baseball?

Stop it, Homer!

Is anyone else sick to death of the NCAA allowing schools to change conferences more often that people change their underpants? It seems like every week another school is talking about ditching their current conference in favor of an oversized one. Missouri wants to join the SEC, UConn wants out of the Big East in favor of the ACC. The movement needs to stop. I understand it all has to do with football and money, but its getting to be a little much. Its getting to the point where there will only be 5 conferences left in FBS (ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big 10 and Pac-12). The Big East continues to try to expand dispite the fact no teams want to join their conference because the remaining 6 members may not be there. How many teams do you need in a conference? The Mountain West is working on a deal with Conference USA on a 22 team super conference. Is that really necessary? I think the NCAA should make a rule stating that a conference shall not exceed 12 memebers. But that is just my thoughts. And here I thought the BCS was college football's biggest problem. Boy was I wrong.