Capitals Farm Report - Playoff Previews

Here are my quick thoughts on our prospects as they head into their playoffs.  I may come back to add a lot of links, or I may not.  But keep checking back! 

My thoughts - Mackan will probably be done first.  Farjestads has been wildly inconsistent and I think they are having goaltender injury issues.

Dmitry's team has also been inconsistent.  He's doing fine but Coach has been very critical of his linemates and even demoted one of them (the team captain!) to the third line.  And then they won big in their last two games.  The Remparts finished fifth overall.  The top four teams are all the other side of the brackets and only one of them can advance to the final.  If the Remparts buckle down they might play all the way through to the Q championship round while Moncton and Drummondville and St. John and Victoriaville beat each others' brains in.

Cody - The Broncos played out of their heads last week to first clicnh eighth place and then win two shootouts in back-to-backs against the seventh place team and move ahead of them.  This is good because they will escape a stone cold mauling by Joel Broda and the Calgary Hitmen, at least in the first round.  Instead they play the second-place Brandon Wheat Kings and will put up a good fight, but I think they will not advance.

Delly - His team is super white hot right now, crushed every franchise record and are the second-best team in OHL history, points-wise.  They're going to the Finals and on to Memorial Cup contention, IMO.  That is, if they don't get overconfident.  Windsor and London are gunning for them, and they are very good teams.

Broda - He's the dark horse because I wasn't paying any attention to him, but the Hitmen are going to take the WHL and challenge Delly for the Cup.  They are as scary offensively as the Colts and they might (or probably, if I'm being honest) have better goaltending.  Cody finished fourth in the league in goals with 47 and Joel finished 10th with 36, BTW.

My analysis/predictions:  Cody and Marcus will most likely be packing their bags for Hershey or Charleston late next week, then Dmitry a week or two after that ('cos i don't think they *will* buckle down but that's why they play the games), and SDR and Broda will be playing well into May.

At least they better be.