Does Google see page with Trailing Slash as different

[costume]

My company is purchasing another company's website.  We are moving their entire site onto our CMS and the IT guys are working hard to replicate the URL structure.  Several of the category pages are changing slightly and I am not sure if it matters:

Old URL - http://www.DOMAIN.com/products/adults

New URL - http://www.DOMAIN.com/products/adults**/**

Notice the trailing slash?  Will Google treat the new page as the same as the old one or as completely different (i.e. new) page?

P.S. - Yes, I can setup 301s but since these pages hold decent rankings I'd really like to keep it exactly the same.

[Highland]

According to Matt Cutts, trailing slashes are automatically canonicalized. It shouldn't make any difference.