It's an interesting series from a number of perspectives.
Columbus has had a week+ off. How rusty are they? Assuming they were on a hot streak against Tampa, will they be able to keep it up?
These teams have played 3 times in the last month of the season, but they also don't know each other as well as Toronto and Boston did. Columbus has been prepping for the Bruins for a week. How much will that help them?
I could see the series going any number of ways, whereas I thought we were almost guaranteed 7 games with Toronto.
One of the things with the Toronto series was that I didn't think there was much hate once Kadri was out. There were a few moments, but not much overall. I think with Columbus' style of play, there's going to be a lot of hate in this series, which usually brings out the Bruins' best.