Just the facts
- When: Today, 3 PM
- Where: TD Garden – Boston, MA
- How to follow: NESN, NHL Network, 98.5 The Sports Hub
- Opposing perspective: Mile High Hockey
Know your enemy
- 5-0-3, 13PTS, 1st in the Pacific Division
- Martin Necas: 6G-6A-12PTS; Nathan MacKinnon: 6G-5A-11PTS; Cale Makar: 3G-6A-9PTS
- Scott Wedgewood: 5-0-2, 2.33 GAA, .910 save percentage
Game notes
- Ah yes, just what you want to see when you’ve lost six games in a row: a team that has yet to lose in regulation coming to town. This should be fun!
- As you undoubtedly remember, these two teams played one another one week ago today, a 4-1 Avalanche win in Denver. On the heels of a wild game in Vegas, that one was a more thorough defeat, and things have gone steadily downhill since then.
- Oddly enough, the Avalanche, like the Bruins, haven’t won a game since that match-up on October 18. They’ve lost two in a row, both beyond regulation: 5-4 to the Hurricanes in a shootout on Thursday, and 4-3 to the Mammoth in OT on Tuesday.
- That game against Carolina featured a double-throwback night with the Avs wearing Nordiques jerseys and the Hurricanes wearing Whalers jerseys. Obviously decades have passed since the moves, but it still feels like a kick in the nuts for Nordiques and Whalers folks whenever those jerseys come out.
- While the Bruins have put up plenty of goals in recent games, they’ll have a tougher task doing so today: Colorado allows the second-fewest GA/G in the league at 2.13.
- You’d assume any and all lineup changes are on the table when you’re staring down losing seven games (almost 10% of the season!) in a row, so we’ll see what Marco Sturm has on his mind today.
- The refrain of “hey, at least they made it interesting” has obviously gotten old at this point, with the Bruins needing a result sooner rather than later to prevent this from turning into a complete gong show. It’s a tall order to ask for that result against a Stanley Cup contender, but stranger things have happened — like that game-loser against Florida. STAY POSITIVE.
- Also, is it really a matinée game if it’s at 3 PM? Or does it need to be a 12 PM or 1 PM to be a true matinée? It’s technically in the afternoon, but 3 PM feels dangerously close to the evening, especially in the fall.
- Something tells me we’ll have a lot of time to have more arguments like the one immediately above this as the season progresses. Buckle up!
See
ya this afternoon!
