COLUMN: 'Playoffs Are Miles Away' For Bruins Team Simply Trying to Win a Game

The B's going through their worst slide in almost 30 years as they attempt to snap an eight-game losing streak

BRIGHTON, MA – Nobody could blame the Bruins veteran players from feeling a little out of sorts with this entire foreign experience coming the stretch of the NHL regular season.

The Bruins have lost eight games in a row and are eight points back of a wild card spot with eight games left to play in the regular season, and there’s more fanfare about the visiting players coming into home games (Alex Ovechkin on Tuesday night) than there is about anybody in Black and Gold.

It’s the worst eight game stretch for the Bruins since the 1996-97 season when they finished dead-last in the division in a lost hockey season that led to them drafting Joe Thornton and Sergei Samsonov in the first round. So perhaps there is a little hope that the B’s can turn that kind of trick again this offseason, even if they aren’t going to wind up with the first overall pick in the draft.