Who will win the Conn Smythe Trophy? Jiggy's a lock Jean-Sebastien Giguere's utter domination in his first postseason has been a huge surprise. AP By Ryan Hunt Just answer this: Would the Mighty Ducks be anywhere near the Stanley Cup finals without Jean-Sebastien Giguere? If your answer was "yes," the only Ducks you've watched probably were coached by Emilio Estevez. Anyone want to bet against Giguere and seventh-seeded Anaheim capping off this Hollywood ending by sipping champagne out of Lord Stanley's Cup? Fittingly, it all started with the triple-overtime gem against the defending Cup champs in Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals. And since the shocking first-round sweep of Detroit, Jiggy hasn't looked back. The vaunted Red Wings couldn't crack him. Nor could the top-seeded Stars. And in four games, the entire Minnesota Wild scored only one more goal on Giguere than I did. And needless to say, Marian Gaborik is just a wee bit more scary. Giguere has had four shutout streaks of more than 100 minutes in the postseason, topped by his 217:54 run -- the longest since 1951 -- to start the Western Conference finals. His 1.22 goals-against average and .960 save percentage are among the best in playoff history, even outdoing Martin Brodeur (1.62, .937). And it hasn't been all about the stats. He's made two sick postseason saves that would make his idol Patrick Roy proud. Jiggy has left Mike Modano in premature celebration with a skate save from out of nowhere. And Gaborik shaking his head after a flying stick save from across the crease. But even if the Ducks can't complete their postseason with a finals victory over the Devils, Giguere should at least -- barring a rust-induced implosion -- carry home the Conn Smythe. Should that scenario unfold, he'd be only the fifth player on a losing team to do it and the first since Ron Hextall in 1987. And Hextall, whose Flyers lost to Wayne Gretzky's Oilers in seven games, wasn't nearly as dominant. And like Hextall, Giguere was in his first postseason when he broke out. In a mere 14 games, the face of the Ducks has become Giguere. Now, out of nowhere, he has Anaheim improbably staring at NHL glory. All this for a player who was once jettisoned by Calgary. Flames fans can only wonder where they would be with him right now. Stevens in a surprise Scott Stevens does all the little things well as the Devils' team captain. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/NHLI By Jon A. Dolezar J.S. Giguere may be statistically dominating the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but Scott Stevens will have the last laugh when he hoists two pieces of heavy hardware to wrap up the postseason. Giguere has been amazing, but Stevens' importance to the Devils can't be measured in mere statistics. New Jersey's captain has chipped in with three goals and four assists in the Devils' 17 playoff games, both modest totals on a modestly offensive team that prefers to win with defense. The ace in the hole for Stevens is his playoff-best plus-12 rating, which should only grow against the offensively conservative Ducks. When he took the Conn Smythe Trophy following the Devils' 2000 Cup triumph, Stevens scored three goals and added eight assists in 23 postseason games. But Stevens dominated the 2000 playoffs by shutting down elite snipers Pavel Bure, Mats Sundin, John LeClair and Mike Modano in New Jersey's four series victories. He became just the seventh defenseman to win the Conn Smythe, and his plus-9 mark while matched up against the opponents' top scorers was a big reason. This time around, Stevens has put the clamps on Marian Hossa, Vincent Lecavalier and Joe Thornton, each of whom finished in the top 18 in regular-season scoring. Stevens' challenge for the finals will be a matchup against Paul Kariya, who had 81 points in the regular season to rank 13th. The strongest argument for Stevens' candidacy for the playoff MVP may be what happened when the Devils played without him for all but 77 seconds of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Lightning. When Stevens was knocked out of the game by a Pavel Kubina slap shot to his ear, the Devils fell apart and allowed three goals in a span of 11:57. New Jersey rallied for three goals of its own in the second period of that game once it had overcome the shock of losing its captain, but Tampa Bay prevailed 4-3 in overtime to hand the Devils one of their five postseason losses. Giguere is a worthy candidate if the Ducks prevail, but the streak of a player from the winning team taking the Conn Smythe Trophy will extend to 16 consecutive postseasons when Stevens accepts it just moments before accepting hockey's Holy Grail from Gary Bettman.