Evenly-matched teams, gonna be, if not a long series, a series in which all the close games.

Will be decided by the breaks.  Whichever team wins should make it through the next round as well, getting to the East final.

That Pit is playing CBJ in the 1st round while 2 also-rans like Bos and Ott also go head-to-head, let's just say that nobody should ever consider that the NHL cares more 'bout hockey than it's own bottom line.  Not the custodian of the game.