McCarty, in particular, seems stoked about the opportunity to face his former mates, with whom he collected three Stanley Cups.

"I couldn't have wrote it any better," says McCarty, who suited up for Sunday's regular-season finale in Denver. "I'm excited to be playing those guys. Obviously, the team's changed a lot since I was there. But I still have a lot of buddies there that I accomplished great things with. Just like anything else, it's always sweeter when you beat your close friends."

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