I explained my choices in other posts.
If you want to hear them then here they are:
Pens over Habs - Penguins have 3 lines that can score. Kunitz - Crosby - Guerin first line, Ponikarovsky - Malkin - Fedotanko 2nd line, and Cooke - Staal - Dupuis. The Habs beat the Caps because they use there skill to beat the teams, and the Habs shut down there skill, they had Hall Gill on Ovy all times and Semin was always being covered. The Caps are way to skilled an not enough grit which is why Habs won (also the ridiculos number of blocked shots by montreal). The Pens play a physical and gritty game which will destroy Montreals small forwards. This game will end in a sweep by Pens or the Habs might win one game.
Philly over Bruins - Rask is obvi better than Boucher, but I think Philly's offense: Mike Richards, Claude Giroux, Simon Gagne, Jeff Carter, Scott Hartnell, Daniel Briere, JVR will be better than Bergeron, Savard, Krejci. The only I see Boston winning is if they play more physical than Philly. Philly blocks shots, there forwards have great backchecking and they got guys that can score. This game should go to game 7.
Nucks over Chicago - Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Samuelsson, you cant go wrong with 2 twins playing beside eachother, but also the leading scorer this year, Henrik Sedin and also playing along another Swede. The Nucks have the better top 6 forwards, but the Blackhawks have the edge in bottom 6 forwards and in defense. The Nucks have the way better goalie. Luongo>Niemi. This game will go to game 6 or 7. I wouldnt mind Chicago winning as I am a big fan of Toews, Seabrook, and Keith. Even though Chicago beat Nucks last year in 6 games when the nucks led the series 2-0 and lost 4 straight games, ill still go with canucks.
Sharks over Red Wings - This game will go to game 7 for sure. You got the big 3, Heatley - Thornton - Marleau (the highest scoring line in the NHL) with young guys like Pavelski, Setoguchi and grinders like Clowe and Nichol. The red wings are way more experienced in the playoffs, and have more verteran presence and better leadership since the Sharks dont have a captain. The edge goes to Sharks for forwards but in defense it goes to the wings. In net you got a rookie goalie Howard vs Nabokov who has been horrible this year even though his team came in first. Ever since the 7-2 loss against Canada, the Sharks went downhill but at the end of the season pulled it together. I'll go with Wings in net. But its close. The only Sharks will win is if they can shut down Datsyuk and Zetterberg.