Conroy: Sky is the limit for Bruins if they keep answering Bruce Cassidy’s challenges
TAMPA — These Boston Bruins are an impressive outfit, in any number of ways.
You want to play a wide-open, run-and-gun style? They’ve got the skill to match you.
Grind it out in a 2-1 game? They possess the defensive chops to do that, too. And withstanding multiple injuries to key players? Forget about it.
With a dozen games to go in their regular season, the Bruins’ 98 points left them just two points shy of Tampa for the best record in the East after notching a 3-0 shutout of the Lightning on Saturday. (The Bolts were set to host Edmonton on Sunday, after which the Bruins will have two games on hand on them.) The Bruins are four points in arrears of the Nashville Predators in the Presidents Trophy race. And to think they started the season a mediocre 6-7-4.
But while the B’s are proving to be a team with few, if any, glaring weaknesses, one of the most impressive things about this team is the way it responds to the coaching of Bruce Cassidy and his staff.
Demko injured and potentially out for rest of series
