Cutting it close

Here comes the blog of the week! Only because my life is so lame, I'm going to write a blog on hockey. With the trade deadline and the final games of the NHL season drawing near I've made a few observations. The Anaheim Ducks have a good chance to repeat, but without Andy McDonald, I doubt they will be able to pull it off. My sleeper team would be the Philadephia Flyers, but do not count out the once dominant Colorado Avalanche. If they manage to keep in the race for the playoffs without Sakic and Smyth, I expect them to become deadly and make a deep run into the race for the Cup. The Thrashers are one team I don't know about. They play well one night and terrible the next, if they get going, the scoring threat of Kovalchuck and Hossa(pending he doesn't get traded) could prove to be deadly and may drive them to their first playoff series win, if not anymore. That's all I got for now.