Canes Country's 2024 Playoff Pick 'Em Challenge: Round 2

We are 24 hours (give or take) from Game 1 of the Hurricanes/Rangers series, and we still don't know the matchups for fully half of the second round series. (Not only that, but we won't even know the Avalanche's opponent until after the Canes and Rangers finish the first game of the second round!) So, if the NHL is improvising on the fly, I guess that means we'll have to as well. Thanks, Gary!

Here's the plan:

• Go ahead and enter your picks for the Canes/Rangers series now. If you want to throw in your picks for Canucks/Oilers, that's fine too.
• Once we know the matchups for the other two series, please enter your picks for those series as a reply to your original comment. It will make things considerably easier for me in data entry to have the picks together in one comment thread than needing to fish through hundreds of comments.
• DO NOT EDIT YOUR ORIGINAL COMMENT ONCE CANES/RANGERS GAME 1 BEGINS. IF YOU DO, YOUR CANES/RANGERS PICK WILL NOT COUNT. I have no way to know if you changed your pick after Game 1, so I will have no choice but to discard your pick altogether. You MUST reply, NOT edit.
• Picks will remain open until the start of Game 1 of the series between the Panthers and whoever wins Game 7 between the Maple Leafs and Bruins tonight (Saturday). That game will be Monday night, probably starting at 8:00. (There is a concert in Vancouver on Monday that is likely going to push Canucks/Oilers to a Tuesday start, so Monday is likely to be a one-game night.)
• You may still enter picks for Canes/Rangers until the start time of Monday's Panthers game, but any picks entered after the start of Game 1 on Sunday will only receive half of the normal points if correct.
• Correct picks for the second round receive 2 points each; correct winners and series length receive 5 bonus points. Late entries for the Canes and Rangers series will receive 1 point for the correct winner and 3 bonus points for also having the correct length (I'll round up because I'm nice).
• I will post the first round standings late Sunday or as soon as possible Monday morning.

Give me a shout if you have any questions. Good luck!

First Round Stats

Please check these carefully! Many of you entered your picks in the wrong order (especially for the two Atlantic Division series) and while I think I caught most of them, I can't promise it. If you see that yours is wrong, please email me - bdleblanc at gmail - so that I can fix it. Thanks!