With the Sens sweep this weekend and this fact :
A Canadiens - Rangers first round match up seems all but guaranteed at this point. Unless they go on a big skid against teams playing spoiler.
Pretty much. Only chance for it not to happen is if either the Habs or Rangers completely bomb out now. Rangers are just about locked into that first wild card. 6 points behind third place in the Metro, 14 points (and
11 ROWs) ahead of the second wild card with just 10 games to go. We would pretty much have to go 0-10-0 the rest of the way to be in any real danger of losing our spot.
On the one hand, yay, the Atlantic bracket! On the other hand, it's by far the worst possible draw we could have gotten out of that bracket.