My teams needs to score and thats the only way for me to reach the finals.
They can do that and they did it so far. I tweaked my line-up after first game against Stealheads and its working, to my surprise.
As for Bears... I really struggled against them in regular season. Even managed to get worse franchise loss (1-6), few days before playoffs started.
Despite that, I would put both Red Tide and Paul's Stealheads above Battlin Bears in my rankings, but that doesn't speak much.
I would say that biggiest thing in my favor would be home ice advantage, in a season where I am, for some reason, heavy home team.
Lets see if we can live up to that and go to finals. Which would be, after I shipped off Real, incredible result.