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Poll: Which of the final eight teams will win the 2012 Stanley Cup?

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We’re down to the Conference semifinal stage -- or the Elite 8, to steal some college basketball parlance -- of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs. The story of the opening round was upsets, upsets and more upsets:

-- Top overall seed Vancouver, the Presidents’ Trophy winner, lost to No. 8 Los Angeles.

-- Boston, the defending Stanley Cup champion, lost to Washington.

-- Pittsburgh, who finished with the fourth-most points (109) in the NHL, lost to Philadelphia.

As such, we’re left with a pretty interesting Round 2.

Western Conference

No. 2 St. Louis vs. No. 8 Los Angeles

No. 3 Phoenix vs. No. 4 Nashville

Eastern Conference

No. 1 New York Rangers vs. No. 7 Washington

No. 5 Philadelphia vs. No. 6 New Jersey

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