Welcome to a new week, folks!
Hopefully you had yourselves a productive, post-holiday-haze week last week, as now we just have…January. Always a nice time to live in this part of the world.
The Bruins had
themselves about as good a weekend as you could hope for, beating the New York Rangers on Saturday and the Pittsburgh Penguins a little more than 24 hours later.
The Rangers game was a 10-2 beating on national TV, while the Penguins win was a satisfying 1-0 shutout for Joonas Korpisalo.
For many local sports fans, Sunday’s game was little more than an appetizer for that night’s Patriots game, but for Korpisalo and the Bruins, a 27-save shutout could go a long way toward rebuilding confidence — both for Korpisalo himself and for the team’s confidence in him.
(As an aside, I can understand those who appreciate the artistry of a defensive showdown in football, but that Patriots-Chargers game was a pretty bad game to watch.)
The B’s were given today completely off after the busy back-to-back weekend. They’ll be back in action tomorrow night, hosting the Detroit Red Wings for an Original 6/Atlantic Division showdown.
Those same Red Wings are in action on Monday night, hosting the Carolina Hurricanes, so the schedule may do the Bruins a bit of a favor in that regard.
Tuesday’s game will be a TNT/HBO Max game.
The Red Wings, as of Monday morning, remain atop the Atlantic Division, continuing an impressive run of play for them.
Things remain very tight in the division, with just seven points separating the top six teams.
Even the Leafs have played their way out of the basement to within a point of the second wild card spot, so things are getting interesting.
It still feels like it’ll be “Tampa, Florida, someone else” at the end, but I guess time will tell.
What’s on tap for today?
