In or out?
It is Wednesday, my dudes.
The Bruins are off again today, currently soaking up the sun in Las Vegas while the rest of us deal with the fickle “not quite spring yet” weather here in New England.
After a spirited post-trade deadline burst, things have fizzled out a bit for the Bruins, who head into a season-defining “West plus Detroit” road trip riding a streak of three straight losses.
The most recent of those losses came on Monday night against Buffalo, a 3-2 OT loss where you certainly didn’t watch that game and come away thinking “yeah, this looks like a playoff team.”
I’ll put my hand up: after the rousing win against Florida, I got sucked back in.
“Maybe they can go on a run,” I told myself. “They’ve got a high-end goalscorer, Charlie McAvoy could be back, a goalie could go on a heater…stranger things have happened.”
The last three games have been a sobering dose of reality, forcing me to accept the fact that this team isn’t good enough to make the playoffs and isn’t bad enough to get a high-end draft pick.
We are in purgatory, folks.
Barring some sort of hot streak, the upcoming road trip will likely be the proverbial nail in the postseason coffin, which may be a good thing for all of our sanity.
As of Wednesday morning, the Bruins are four points out of a playoff spot, which doesn’t seem like much — until you realize there are four teams between them and eighth-place Montreal.
While I’d love to have some postseason hockey to watch, it’d probably be better for the long-term health of the team to have the B’s stumble a bit more and inch closer to a top-ten pick.
But then again, anything can happen in the playoffs! I’m not out until I’m out.
Anyways, in case you missed it yesterday, Fabian Lysell and Michael Callahan were both recalled from Providence on an emergency basis.
Could this be the start of the Lysell Era?!?!?
Probably not, but it’s fun to think about.
What’s on tap for today?