March to the Cup is where you will vote on hypothetical playoff matchups in a bracket style setup mimicking the NCAA basketball tournaments. Here is the setup.

I’m going to seed all 31 teams based on the current overall standings with one play in game because of the odd number of teams. You will have a chance to vote on who you think should win the matchup. I’ll give some brief overviews and you’ll use those and your own intuition to make your selections. The results will be hidden until the next blog when the results are revealed. We will go round by round until we have a winner. Who knows? Maybe our selection will be the only winner this season.

This is all hypothetical. However you want to analyze things, go for it. If you want to assume every team has full health, go for it. Anything goes in the Coronavirus era of hypothetical playoff hockey.

We have a conference champion.

(3) Colorado Avalanche vs (7) Pittsburgh Penguins



The Penguins did win both regular season matchups in overtime this year. So there's that. Should the voting be this lopsided? Absolutely not. It was closer a day ago, but never truly close. I voted for the Avalanche based on the fact they had the third best 5v5 save percentage in the league this year and Pittsburgh was 20th even with Jarry's hot start to the season. The rosters were close enough to where the goaltending gap was enough to sway me.

The Penguins are the first and only ever winner of the Mario Lemieux Conference. They will await the winner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Vegas Golden Knight matchup.

Hopefully the Mario Lemieux Trophy looks better than his statue.

Thanks for reading!

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