SDHL playoffs round 1: #3 bruins vs #6 rangers

season series: 2-1-1, bruins

bottom line: the rangers enter the playoffs with a conference best 8-0-2 mark in their last 10, including a 5 game winning streak to finish out the season and a shootout victory over the Bs in the season ender, to boot. the bruins finished out the season with a rather pedestrian 5-3-2 record in their last 10. if they can regain their form that allowed them to go 15-3 in one late season 18 game stretch they are the favorites. IF...

what to watch for: the bruins boast one of the more balanced attacks in the league scoring 278 goals while only allowing 225. the rags sport similar numbers, albeit a little worse on each end; 261 goals for and 233 goals against. the only thing that can be gleaned from looking at the numbers is that these are two evenly matched teams.

prediction: the rangers are less talented, but more experienced and have a ton of confidence heading into the playoffs. new york in 6.

I'm sensing some deja vu...

im sensing some skwid is about to get kicked in the ass vu.

That's what you get for not trading me Bobby, bitch.

then i hope i get a reward for hiring someone who would!

No...because you made me pay too much. :-P

haha. i made you pay almost enough so that it was passable. loktionov has some stick skills and o'sullivan is decent, but i think bobby ryan is going to be a 40g scorer plus he's physical. he's got a really good sense for offense, so i think he'll pick up his asst numbers as well. he seems kind of like a cross between kovalchuk and nash.