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Charles Barkley s Guaranteed Bracket for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Maybe he did better here with hockey, right, it's his love,
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  Speaker 1: it's his passion. And here they are Charles Barkley's picks.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: I am ready, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do first round. Okay, it's gonna be complete casts.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So this, yeah, you gonna start up top there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do that one Battle of Ontario, Toronto, Ottawa.
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  Speaker 3: My man Austin Matthews, Scottsdale.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona, all right, and then you get the Battle of Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I know you love John Cooper, I do, but it's
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  Speaker 2: defending Chaps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's Ka Chuck playing is a question.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be there.
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  Speaker 3: And they got Marshawn at the trade there too. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, you had it in your hand.
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  Speaker 3: I did if Mark with Marshawan playing, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm going with the hot goalie, my man Vassilevski.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going with him. There you go nice, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So the Capitol's best team in the East this year,
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  Speaker 1: Montreal barely got it.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to the greatest goal score ever, a Veskin,
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  Speaker 3: breaking the record this year of the greatest hate for ever.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Gresky congratulates the mister veskin, I'm gonna have you moving.
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  Speaker 2: On, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's a lot of people look at this
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  Speaker 1: series of Caroline New Jersey. New Jersey's really banged up
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's that helps me.
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  Speaker 1: Then I could have pretty much said anything.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, Carolina. I think it's my boy.
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  Speaker 3: Brenda Moore, the coach is absolutely did this. Dennis Sun score.
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  Speaker 2: Gold up on the son? You got his son the game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Good? You know what's crazy? What's really crazy? This
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  Speaker 3: is like the NBA bracket like these pretty much. You
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  Speaker 3: think Phil it the West is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this this matchup here could be a Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Cup final.
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  Speaker 3: It could be good.
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  Speaker 2: They are all right.
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  Speaker 1: Winnipeg won the President's Trophy that usually needs absolutely nothing
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  Speaker 1: to a tournament.
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  Speaker 3: There, but the Blues been on fire. They had like
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  Speaker 3: a fourteen game winning stream hockey. Yes, but we're not
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  Speaker 3: living in the uh.
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  Speaker 1: Did they not have a Blues bracket for you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not taking oh, you're taking the Jets.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking the Jets top overall overall, seed, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: Now this here is Banana's right here. I will tell
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  Speaker 3: you Robinson's out. Though Robinson's out, I know see I
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  Speaker 3: got do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So Jason Robertson I think his name well done.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you got the ads moving.
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  Speaker 3: On Vegas against a while they wanted a cup couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago. I'm gonna go with Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you got to start to wonder, like, if we
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  Speaker 1: get the final and we have the final this year,
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  Speaker 1: where do you want to travel to?
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  Speaker 3: I can fly anywhere, but where you Yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 3: little home there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this, by the way, King's Oilers four.
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  Speaker 3: Years, four years and why not?
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  Speaker 2: Don't step I'm gonna step out.
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  Speaker 3: And the artists have won every time they have, so
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna win again this year.
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  Speaker 1: You got the Oilers winning a yet. Yes, Kings are
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  Speaker 1: the home team. They're the best home.
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  Speaker 2: Team in hockey.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Oilers McDavid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and my man Leon Drosi to the best players
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  Speaker 3: of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So now this is where it gets interesting.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna get very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to go back up here? You want
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  Speaker 1: to go back to the LASA? I know you love
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  Speaker 1: John Cooper. You haven't beaten the defending Chimps in round one?
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, this is their year.
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: This is their year.
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  Speaker 1: No Canadian team has won a Stanley Cup in thirty
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  Speaker 1: two years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but we haven't gotten there yet. They're gonna get
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna stick it to us this year. Because of
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  Speaker 3: the tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: Caps are through Okay, caps are through other side of things.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Jets win a series, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Colorado beats the Jets, they hate them last year in
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  Speaker 1: round one.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be the round two this year.
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  Speaker 1: And the Oilers through two Canadian teams.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So here is your final four.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you've got the Ads against the Oilers a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago. That was a conference final as well. Colorado
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  Speaker 1: won that. You have the Leafs against the Caps. Is
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  Speaker 1: this the year for the Leafs? It's been forever?
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  Speaker 3: Canada? Oh, Canada? A home man Braveland.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's not really fo an all Canadian final, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: And the Stanley Cup champion, the Edmonton Oilers. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: tell you why I'm taking the Oilers. Two years ago
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  Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers loss, came back and won it. Allers
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  Speaker 3: loss last year. They're gonna come back and win it
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  Speaker 3: this year, all right, same scenario.
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  Speaker 1: Connor McDavid gonna hoist Lord Stanley's Company, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Canada, a home man Native Land. Sorry about the tariff,
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  Speaker 3: but y'all gonna get us back with a Stanley Cup victory.
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  Speaker 3: That's ridiculous. That was really good.
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  Speaker 2: He knows he knows the hockey, Yes, his hockey, but
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  Speaker 2: he can't sing. No, I thought that was he's worse
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  Speaker 2: than I am.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that that was our preseason pick. The
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  Speaker 1: other of us we changed ours. Chuck is now doubling down,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, the Oilers win.
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  Speaker 3: The whole thing. I mean, I don't think the others
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  Speaker 3: to beat your leafs. I don't think they got the
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  Speaker 3: firepower to compete with Colorado right now in the West.
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  Speaker 3: After watching one game, I think I'm very happy with
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  Speaker 3: changing my pick. You guys, well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Switched to Vegas, Vegas, Vegas in Tampa, that's my pick.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're kind of like Switzerland. You're everywhere. That's usually
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  Speaker 2: that's usually antsy.
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  Speaker 3: And I switched.
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  Speaker 2: I switched from Dallas to Colorado. Yeah, no arguments here
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  Speaker 2: about that worked out in game one