2024 Stanley Cup playoff brackets: Daily Faceoff’s staff predictions

Close your eyes, throw those darts and hope you don’t embarrass yourself. That might as well be the mentality for making Stanley Cup playoff picks every year. And that’s what makes it so darned fun. No matter how much conviction each of us has about their picks every spring, something will happen that no one expects, such as the Florida Panthers dethroning a 65-win Boston Bruins team in Round 1 last year.

The odds of the playoffs turning out exactly as laid out below are slim. But it sure is fun to try. So we present to you Daily Faceoff’s staff playoff brackets.

The panel of prognosticators:

Colby Cohen, co-host of Morning Cuppa Hockey
Steven Ellis, DFO associate editor & prospect analyst
Jason Gregor, co-host of The DFO Rundown podcast
Matt Larkin, DFO managing editor & senior writer
Jonny Lazarus, DFO writer & co-host of Morning Cuppa Hockey
Brock Seguin, DFO managing fantasy editor
Frank Seravalli, DFO president of hockey content and co-host of The DFO Rundown podcast
Tyler Yaremchuk, host & senior producer of The Nation Network

COLBY COHEN’S BRACKET