I would love Pastrnak or either of the Tkachuk's on our team. All that said the best thing that could happen.....is we continue on to the next round in as few games as possible and all the Panther/Bruin games are vindictive nasty attrition full triple overtimers and whichever team comes out of it is beat the f*** up.
.....and there is no real point in siding with one of them or other because you can see what they'll be like if we have to play them maybe even upped another level. If we go on to the next round our opponent is likely going to be an archenemy afterwards. It's also why we need guys who have no problem playing nasty, physical hockey. Looking at the Trouba--Necas thing last night whatever anyone's opinion on the outcome of that assault.....I think most everyone would agree that it wasn't very nice on Jacob's part but even though he didn't connect I kind of think it might have planted a seed in Necas's head that he really will need to be careful to make sure something like that doesn't happen again and instead of maybe trying to beat Trouba wide next time he'll just dump it into the corner and avoid Jacob altogether.