If you would have told Vegas Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon and Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin that they would meet in the playoffs three years after their big trade, they would have been ecstatic.
If you told them it would be in the semi-final, they likely would have been confused.
As both teams expect big performances from Max Pacioretty and Nick Suzuki, the centrepieces of their September 2018 trade (although a part of me isn’t convinced that Tomas Tatar won’t play a role, either), they are now in the same place, with the same opportunity.