We know them as an annually frustrating regular season foe, but this season we got a bigger taste of the Boston Bruins as...division rivals? It’s been a weird year. The New York Islanders won the first five games, lost the final three, and the two teams finished the regular season on different trajectories before dispatching their upper seed opponents in arguably the league’s toughest division.
So now we’re about to get more familiar with the Bruins than we’d ever willingly choose. To help us prepare, we asked Dan Ryan of SB Nation’s Bruins site Stanley Cup of Chowder for perspective on his team.