Since firing Jim Montgomery, the Boston Bruins are 7-2-0 under interim coach Joe Sacco. That run has propelled them into third place at the moment in the Atlantic Division and a couple of points ahead of the two wild card teams in the Eastern Conference a week into December.
Say what you will about the Bruins’ wins under Sacco. Yes, they have mostly beaten teams below them in the standings, but guess what? That’s what good teams do and teams that want to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs in April do throughout the season. They weren’t doing that under Montgomery.
Saturday afternoon at the TD Garden, the Black and Gold will hit the road for a five-game road trip out west against some good teams. It’s only December, but this should be considered a season-defining trip.
Bruins face five-game, season defining road trip
Five games in nine days on the road and the trip, you could say, is the toughest for the Bruins to date this season. A three-game trip back inout to be a bad trip, and over the next nines days, the Black and Gold can’t return to the TD Garden on Dec. 21 to host the Buffalo Sabres off a “bad trip.” Here are the five games,
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