Halfway home.
That’s where the NHL playoffs sit. Just over a month in to the second season, the number of teams have been whittled down from 16 to four as we reach the conference finals stage of the postseason.
The second round featured a few surprises, an unexpected expected result and one team exorcising recent demons at a time when many figured they would succumb to them once again.
And the second provided something the first round failed to – a winner-take-all Game 7, two of them in fact. In addition, all four series in round two went at least six games.
Now that it’s down to the final fr...
