Stanley Cup Final and Conn Smythe predictions

And then there were two.

The Pittsburgh Penguins host the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night. Excited? You should be.

theScore's NHL editors make their Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy predictions below.

Stanley Cup FinalPenguins vs. Predators

Editor	Pick
Josh Gold-Smith	Penguins
Craig Hagerman	Predators
Flip Livingstone	Penguins
Esten McLaren	Predators
Ian McLaren	Predators
Sean O'Leary	Penguins
Sonny Sachdeva	Penguins
Navin Vaswani	Penguins
Cory Wilkins	Predators
Josh Wegman	Penguins

• It's tight, but we're going 6-4 in favor of the Penguins repeating as champions.

Conn Smythe Predictions

Editor	Player
Gold-Smith	Evgeni Malkin
Hagerman	Pekka Rinne
Livingstone	Sidney Crosby
Esten McLaren	P.K. Subban
Ian McLaren	Rinne
O'Leary	Malkin
Sachdeva	Malkin
Vaswani	Malkin
Wilkins	Rinne
Wegman	Malkin

• Five of us are picking Malkin to win his second Conn Smythe Trophy. Geno leads the NHL in playoff scoring with seven goals and 24 points in 20 games.
• Rinne's the favorite in Vegas, for what it's worth.
• It's kind of amazing that Crosby, last year's Conn Smythe winner, gets only one vote. His 20 points rank second among all postseason skaters.

Who you got?

Conference finals, overall results

Your hardworking and extremely handsome editors fared pretty well in the third round, thanks to all of us picking Pittsburgh to advance over Ottawa. (Sorry, Senators fans.)

Editor	3rd-round score	Overall
Gold-Smith	2/2	8/14
Hagerman	2/2	9/14
Livingstone	1/2	6/14
Ian McLaren	1/2	6/14
O'Leary	2/2	7/14
Sachdeva	2/2	9/14
Vaswani	2/2	9/14
Wilkins	2/2	11/14
Wegman	2/2	9/14

• Mr. Wilkins is a prophet, and after a respectable 5-for-8 first round, he's been perfect ever since. He's got the the Predators winning the Cup and Rinne the Conn Smythe. So congratulations in advance, Nashville.

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