It’s probably a good thing the Bruins [team stats] flew away late last night for their longest trip of the season, six games. Maybe the road will be good for the B’s; it certainly has been many times in the past.
It better be, because the act the Bruins have put on the ice for nearly 11⁄2 months now has been mighty weak.
It wouldn’t quite be accurate to say the B’s played weakly last night in their final TD Garden game until Feb. 28. They just weren’t nearly as strong as the New York Rangers, who ground out an impressive 3-0 win in front of the splendid Henrik Lundqvist and have clearly supplanted the B’s as the team to beat in the...
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