NHL playoff format will knock out top teams early

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Two of the top four teams in the NHL are guaranteed to be out the playoffs after the second round. "There's not a whole lot of logic there," Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik said. A Penguins-Capitals style repeat could happen this year with the Central's Predators and Jets on a crash course for a second-round showdown and the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning locked into a stacked Atlantic bracket with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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