The Match-Up: The Senators and Rangers dispatched the Bruins and Habs in 6, respectively, and now the best team in the Atlantic is charged with fending of a Metropolitan invader. Or, if you want the Rangers spin, their master plan of avoiding all the brutal teams in the Metropolitan Division is going exactly as it should.
Both teams have lights-out goalies, but the Rangers draw the edge in blue line depth. Obviously, the Senators get the Erik Karlsson factor, and each teams’ forward cores match up well against one another. The X-factor could end up being Clarke MacArthur for the Senators, who came back serious injury troubles just before the playoffs, comes into form.