*****Official 2017 NHL Playoffs Thread With Contest*****
 

I thought it would be cool to have a thread for the best postseason in sports, the NHL Playoffs.

Even though my Kings are out, I love watching the playoffs and wish the best to all of you with your teams.

Here's the link for the bracket predictor. https://bracketchallenge.nhl.com/leagues/chiefsplanet

The password is Lonewolf and I hope we can get some of you in there with a bracket. Enjoy!

When I click on the link, it takes me to the group bracket page but it's locked and doesn't give me an option to enter a password

Hmmm....ok let me work on that. Thanks for letting me know.

Maybe just go to the main landing page, http://www.bracketchallenge.nhl.com and search for the group Chiefs Planet. Let me know if that works. I'm probably the worst person to oversee this.

I tired to enter it last night and there wasn't an option for me to enter a password.

So the contest is all about figuring a way into the contest?

I've tried about 10 times now and no matter what link I click on, I get: "Whoops, looks like something went wrong."

Well done, NHL.

Yeah I'm starting to think it's actually maybe NOT me...I'm having the same issue.

I'll keep checking and let you know when I find something.

Or it could totally be me too. I suppose being a Kings fan it would be classic for me to be unable to even set up a playoff bracket.

I think their system sucks. I bet it's getting hammered with people trying to set theirs up, and they don't have the hardware to support everyone at once.

Yeah it now says that it will be live shortly. Looks like the people who built healthcare.gov found their new place of employment.

Two things:

1. The Kings just blew out their top two leaders. Deserved, IMO. Thanks to Sutter and Lombardi, but the game has passed them by. See Team USA in the World Cup for example 1A of Lombardi.

2. I created a new league. I made this one public. ChiefsPlanet (no space), no need for a league password. If this doesn't work, screw it.

I'm putting together a Google Sheets option for us. Standby.

Last time I tried this, I took a chance on the Sharks beating the Kings in the first round, and the Kings won the Cup (after being down 3-0 to the Sharks).

My downfall this year will be trusting the Caps.

I want to play

I've been able to get into both, FWIW, but had to sign in (and it would have been nice for them to say 'hey, sign in to do stuff!').