The Boston Bruins will try to avert a season series sweep at the hands of the New York Islanders Monday night.
That sentence indubitably has its place among those least likely to have surfaced in 2013-14, but it is a matter of fact. The NHL’s Atlantic Division leaders have already dropped a pair of two-goal decisions to the Metropolitan Division cellar-dwellers on Nov. 2 and Dec. 31 and get one more crack at them this week.
To stoke the intrigue, since their last bout with the Bruins, the Islanders have been playing far less like a team that deserves to be bunking in a basement. They can reward themselves for a belated perk-up by continuing to pile on points and receiving a little help in the form of slumping divisional cohabitants.
Boston must answer by striving to build on the momentum it has established for itself through other matchups this past week. It must keep the Nassau Coliseum crowd and its caterers, who hope to prevent a winless three-game homestand, at bay by dictating the complexion of the contest.
If any added incentive to deny the Isles a statistical, head-to-head statement helps the Bruins to defend with their d ...
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