The Boston Bruins cemented their first five-game winning streak of the 2013-14 NHL season Sunday evening with a 5-2 road victory over the Florida Panthers.
Before anyone submits to temptation and dismisses the new height as an anti-shocker against a plebeian adversary, consider the Boston head coach’s response. Beat writer Joe Haggerty of CSNNE.com singled out Claude Julien’s comment by quoting the bench boss as follows: “We could have looked like a tired team, but I saw a really determined team in the third period…Playing a second game 20 hours later and the pace we were able to play at, I was impressed with our team.”
Julien was referring to a one-sleep, travel-day turnaround between Saturday’s 4-3 triumph in Tampa and Sunday’s success in Sunrise. One element that enabled those results, besides resistance to complacency, was the depth chart’s top-to-bottom balance, which has permitted rotating droves to fuel these five successive wins.
When a team is not leaning on a limited selection of forward lines, everyone is going to conserve physical and mental energy. Those who pro ...
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