Remember the Boston Bruins? Remember when we dreaded them, and everything they stood for? What’s happened to this once fearsome team?
The Leafs only play the Bruins three times this season, and while we might have expected, like a curse that never goes away, to play them in the playoffs, they are grimly hanging on to a wildcard spot (by points %) with some serious competition for it.
We’re only one-third of the way into this season, however, and it’s not like last year where fates were pretty much set at nearly 30 games played.
We just saw the Lightning sleepwalk through part of a game against the Leafs, and the Leafs themselves have had their moments of accidental wins lately, so surely the Atlantic is a little more open than it appears, right?