After 82 regular season games, the Bruins finally have their playoff opponent.
A mostly JV Bruins’ squad dropped a 5-2 decision to a similarly assembled Toronto Maple Leaf lineup on Friday at Scotiabank Arena, earning the Bruins a date with the Carolina Hurricanes. The ‘Canes, of course, swept the season series, 3-0, by a combined score of 16-1. But with the way the Bruins approached Friday’s regular-season finale, it doesn’t appear that they feared Carolina any more than than they would have the Leafs, who also swept the season series against the Bruins and would have been the other potential opponent if the Bruins could have beaten them on Friday.
In the end, it was decided the rest for the big guns was far more important than attempting to cherry-pick an opponent.
