Morning Skate: Standings

Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesIt is Wednesday, my dudes.

After a rousing, ping pong-filled day yesterday, the Bruins will be back on the ice for practice at 11 AM.

The team returns to game action tomorrow night, with a second match-up with the Edmonton Oilers in as many weeks.

There was a good deal of match-up related conversation in yesterday’s Morning Skate, which had me look at the Eastern Conference standings in more detail (the numbers below are from Tuesday evening, prior to last night’s action).

We really haven’t had to do much standings watching around here in quite a while, as the Bruins have been comfortably first in the Atlantic and the Eastern Conference…