Seven Games Left

When the Bruins ran up a huge lead in the division back in November and December one of the positive things for us the fans was that if the lead was as insurmountable as it appeared then the rest of the regular season would be more or less stress free.

Nope.

Seven games left.  The Bruins have a three point lead in the division over Ottawa.  We have two games in hand, but I never consider that as a positive.  Sure there are four potential points for the Bruins that do not exist for the Senators, but whenever you start banking on games in hand the team always tends to lose those games.  I focus on what has happened instead of what might happen.  I guess.  As it stands now, if Ottawa catches us we would drop from second in the conference all the way down to sixth which is terrible, but last week it would have been seventh.  Sixth sounds a whole lot better than seventh.

In the conference we are in second place, 10 points out of first so we can forget about that.  Florida is four points back.  It's close, but frankly I am a whole ton more worried about Ottawa than Florida.  I want to win the division.  I don't care if we're second or third seed.  Second seed guarantees us two rounds of home ice, but they have been so frustrating over the past couple of months that I am only caring about the first round.

They play Tampa Bay tonight.  Tampa embarrassed the Bruins a couple of weeks ago.  May Boston's finest right that particular wrong.

Go Bruins!