I honestly feel like NJ was a tougher opponent for us. We were good against NJ, but this series was an absolute clinic.
Most series have swings, ebbs and flows, momentum changes you can feel. This one did that once: After Game 1. After that, it felt like there was just nothing Boston could do. We were in control at all times.
For sure. I kept trying to remain level headed in the midst of my joy to keep from thinking that, this is really all they have to offer? In the end, Vasy was better, we were too deep and too physical for them. They looked like pretty much every team they've played against the last 5-10 years while we looked like them, typically. They moaned about the refs, publicly, and pretty much got manhandled by us bar a few Chara hits and two periods where it was typical Bruins hockey. We didn't panic in our zone, we clogged the neutral zone, etc. The devils at least entered the zone and hemmed us in for stretches at a time. I think is give Boston 3 periods out of 15, and that's generous on the 3rd one. Devils with Hall made us look like toddlers at times. Certainly for a short time, but they put in a better effort.
Their depth of Heinen, Debrusk, Backes, Gionta, Nash did pretty much nothing for them outside of game 1. Not like they didn't try either, we just made them look like a practice team.