The NHL three-day Holiday break is over, and the game resumes on Saturday night. The Boston Bruins, who sputtered through a 1-3-1 five-game homestand, which included losing their final four games (one in a shootout to the Vancouver Canucks).
They are on the outside looking in at the Eastern Conference playoff race and begin a five-game road trip in Western New York against the Buffalo Sabres. A Sabres win, and they leap the Black and Gold in the standings and leap the Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs in the basement of the Atlantic Division.
Speaking of the Maple Leafs, they are in the same position as the Bruins.