The puck drops on the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs Tuesday. NHL.com and NHL Network staff have determined how each first-round series will play out, predicted which teams will meet in the Stanley Cup Final, which franchise will be partying with the Cup this summer -- and of course, who will be named playoff MVP.

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Compton Kimelman Kreiser Masisak Pinchevsky Roarke Rosen Morreale Basu PIT-NYI MTL-OTT WSH-NYR BOS-TOR CHI-MIN ANA-DET VAN-SJS STL-LAK CUP FINAL PIT-LAK PIT-CHI PIT-CHI PIT-LAK PIT-LAK PIT-STL NYR-STL PIT-CHI NYR-VAN CHAMPION MVP Quick Iginla Fleury Fleury Letang Malkin Lundqvist Crawford Schneider

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