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No, the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens don't meet every postseason. It just seems that way.
But perhaps they should, because you never know what will happen when these two fierce Original Six rivals come together in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Take last season, for example. Montreal won all eight regular-season meetings en route to taking the top spot in the East, while the Bruins scuffled into the playoffs at the last possible moment. Then, Montreal took a 3-1 series lead and everyone thought it was over. Everyone except Boston, that is. The Bruins won the next two games and forced a Game 7 before finally bowing out.
Now it is the Bruins who own the upper hand as the top seed in the East while the Canadiens are in disarray. They've been free-falling since the All-Star Break, a slide that cost their coach his job. To add to the misery, Montreal earned just one win in six games against Boston this season.
But as we learned last spring, none of that will matter when the puck drops in Game 1 of this Eastern Conference Quarterfinal. While we won't even be able to guess what will happen in this series, we virtually can guarantee it will be wildly entertaining.
