Devils Fan Defying the Odds in NHL Bracket Challenge
IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect While the New Jersey Devils are watching the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs from home, one of their most passionate supporters still has something to play for. Josh Langer, a Devils season-ticket holder and the voice behind one of the biggest Devils fan accounts on Instagram, @devils. fanpage , sits second place overall out of more than 616,000 entries in the NHL’s official ‘Bracket Challenge’.
He’s correctly guessed the outcome of all 12 playoff series’ so far — and nailed the exact number of games for every series except three. The odds of doing that well to this point? Approximately one in 200,000.
UPDATE!! A PERFECT BRACKET NOW THROUGH TWO ROUNDS!! I’m now ranked 2ND IN THE WORLD out of 616,147 in the NHL’s bracket challenge Oh my 🤯🤯🤯 https://t.
co/srUltFqhBj pic. twitter. com/Bvz5L1GIAt — Josh (@joshlangerr) May 19, 2026 All that’s left to complete perfection is the Colorado Avalanche and Carolina Hurricanes meeting in the Stanley Cup Finals, with the Avs winning it all.
Per NHL. com, both of those teams are the “overwhelming favorites” to advance in their respective series’. The first-place bracket, belonging to user “Galastorn”, has predicted the same finals outcome.
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