God, I’ve seen what you’ve performed for others, and I ask solely that you simply provide me only a sliver of your generosity—just like the New York Rangers profitable the Stanley Cup subsequent yr, a win that EA Sports activities’ NHL 25 has simply formally predicted.
NHL 25, the newest entry within the annual hockey sim centered across the U.S. and Canada’s Nationwide Hockey League, simply dropped on October 4. And though last year it took several months for the sport’s official X (previously Twitter) account to foretell a Stanley Cup winner, this yr it simply took 4 days, and it’s my New York Rangers.
The NHL 25 Playoff Simulation has the Rangers besting the Penguins in spherical one, the Devils in spherical two, and the Bruins in spherical three, to go on and beat the Edmonton Oilers in seven video games for the Stanley Cup. It has final yr’s champs, the Florida Panthers, shedding in spherical one (teehee).
Contemplating my Rangers went all the best way to the Japanese Convention Finals this previous season simply to lose to the Panthers (who gained the complete league), it’s not a stretch that they’d be a stable shot to take the Cup this yr. Now, can my coronary heart deal with one other deep playoff run with out Adam Fox hoisting the cup overhead on the finish of it? No, no it can not—I had a barback surreptitiously hand me a bunch of crumpled up paper towels as a result of I used to be leaking snot in every single place whereas sitting on the bar after watching them get eradicated this previous June.
However NHL 24‘s official predictions had been wildly, wildly off. That bracket had the Panthers eradicated in spherical one by the Tampa Bay Lightning (the Lightning had been truly eradicated by the Bruins in spherical one), the Bruins going to the Cup ultimate (when in actuality they misplaced to the Panthers), the Edmonton Oilers eradicated in spherical two (they went on to the Stanley Cup ultimate), and different inaccurate guesses.
Nevertheless, a woman can dream. I’ve reached out to EA to see how NHL 25 builds these playoff brackets and can replace this story accordingly if I hear again. Till then, I’m texting my household photos of the New York Rangers trying triumphant. Let’s go, boys.