Joe Sacco said the quiet part out loud on Monday afternoon.
Yes, the Bruins were 7-2-0 since Sacco took the team’s reins in mid-November.
But Boston benefited from one of its lightest stretches of the 2024-25 campaign over that stretch, with just one of those nine games against teams currently in the playoff picture.
That one matchup was against the Vancouver Canucks on Nov. 26 — a game that Boston controlled for significant stretches, but couldn’t find any semblance of a scoring touch in a 2-0 loss on home ice.
Even with Boston buoyed by a four-game win streak, Sacco stressed that the immediate returns drawn from the last few weeks wouldn’t mean much if his team fell flat on its face during a daunting five-game road trip.