Talking Points: Career paths intersect

From Talking Points: 

We've already addressed Aaron Ward's personal connection to this first-round series, but he's hardly alone. (See: Glen Wesley.)

These two franchises have a long but dormant rivalry dating back to the days when they played in the same city in the early '70s (the NHL's Bruins and the WHA's New England Whalers) and then the I-84 connection when the Bruins and Whalers were both in the NHL's Adams Division, right up until the Whalers headed south and became the Hurricanes.

In addition to Ward, here's who else is feeling the tug of old loyalties:

Read it here.