SUNRISE, Fla – Pick the team the Bruins have had the most success with this season and it’s the Florida Panthers. Three prior meetings against Jaromir Jagr and company resulted in three wins for Claude Julien’s bunch.
“One of those teams we’ve played well enough to find ways to win games,” Julien said Saturday morning. “It’s always a big game – a four-point game.”
Indeed, the Bruins fell off their playoff perch before the game with Thursday’s loss to Edmonton coupled with the surging Maple Leafs’ win Friday night in New Jersey. The Panthers – after an afternoon to forget at the Fort Lauderdale airport – put in a gutsy effort Friday night, dispensing Nashville, 2-1, to pull within two points of Boston with a game in hand.