The way the Columbus Blue Jackets shut down the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday had to give Lightning fans an eerily familiar feeling.
The Hurricanes look like a dangerous team, the same group that reached the Eastern Conference finals last year.
Carey Price can be a great equalizer for Montreal.
Any team coached by Barry Trotz (see Capitals and Islanders) have given Tampa Bay trouble.
So if you’re the Lightning and playing for seeding during this week’s round-robin games, who would you rather play in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs next week?
Not so easy, is it?
“There’s not much difference between those top two teams and not much difference between the Islanders and Columbus style-wise,” said Brian Engblom, the Lightning’s color analyst for Fox Sports Sun. “You’re picking a different kind of monster every team you play, that’s what makes the playoffs great,…
