These playoffs are, in a nutshell, why I'm absolutely bored with NBA basketball. The NBA has two 1 vs 2 matchups which are going to end up as dominating sweeps by teams that were predicted to meet in a rematch as soon as the finals were over a year ago. The regular season is close to useless, you have teams like last year's Warriors winning close to 90% of their games but any marginal changes to their record don't matter since they'll rampage through the playoffs anyways. The lowest seed to win the finals in league history was a 6 and only one 8 has even made it to the finals IIRC. Flopping, diva athletes, dirty plays, and obnoxious sports media make the game close to unwatchable imo. There's practically zero drama involved imo.

On the other hand, the NHL playoffs are riveting. Of the four teams left, only the Pens were seen as likely to make it this far, with the Senators being close the the Cup Finals after having the lowest odds of winning it all. I'm pretty sure a couple dozen games have gone into OT this year alone. Lower seeds beat favorites pretty often, and 8 seeds aren't unknown to make a deep run or win the whole thing. The only complete blowout of a series was the wild card Preds running over the playoff juggernaut Blackhawks. I'm not a huge fan of the playoff format myself, but it makes the regular season a little more important since you don't wanna have to be a wild card traveling past a few time zones and back constantly instead of staying within your divisional bracket.