The Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators each hope that their pre-holiday statements do not grow stale over the NHL’s Christmas respite of 90-odd hours. Their endeavors to prove as much will conflict, as their schedules resume with a home-and-home series this Friday and Saturday.
When the divisional cohabitants convene at TD Garden to commence the two-game series, the Bruins will be striving to build on Monday’s 6-2 lashing of the Predators. The Senators, meanwhile, hope to follow up on a 5-0 drubbing over the Eastern Conference’s other divisional leader, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Despite their 15-point, five-spot discrepancy in the Atlantic Division standings―or maybe even because of it―the contesting parties figure to engage in a pivotal pair of bouts on the cusp of the season’s midway point. Because of that, and because of who they are facing in back-to-back virtual four-point battles, it is one of their more notable chances to build and/or maintain momentum.
By Saturday’s final horn at Scotiabank Place, the Senators will have reached the exact halfway mark of their 82-game schedule. So far in 2013-14, it ...
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