NHL.com had a seven question interview with Bruins defenseman Dennis Wideman, make sure you check it out. Below is one of the questions he was asked and his response.
3. NHL.com: You faced the Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs last season and lost in seven games. They were the Eastern Conference and Northeast Division champions but you extended them to seven games with big wins in Games 5 and 6. What did you learn from that experience?
Wideman: "It was a big confidence booster for us. A lot of us hadn't played in many Stanley Cup Playoff games -- or any at all. To get a taste of it in Montreal, the loudest building to play in, and playing against a team that had beaten us in something like 13 or 14 games in a row, to give them the series we gave them, to take it to seven games, that was a big wakeup call to us.
"If we play the way we can, we can play with any team in the League. We never expected this success this season. We were hoping to move from mid-pack into maybe the top five or six teams. We didn't expect to be sitting atop the conference. We weren't even picked to make the playoffs by many experts. Our expectations were above those of other people, but we weren't thinking we'd be in this spot."
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