Welcome to a new week, folks!
If you’re a boring, 9-5 office worker like me, this is the week when the “eh, I’ll get to it after the holidays” rent comes due, so good luck to all of you out there.
The Bruins completed the Canadian portion of their road trip over the weekend, beating the Canucks in OT behind two goals from Fraser Minten.
After a disappointing start to the trip with the OT loss to Calgary, the Bruins bounced back nicely in Western Canada.
Next up: Seattle, for the last stop of the road trip on Tuesday before returning home to face those same Calgary Flames on Thursday night.
In case you missed it last week, Will Zellers, James Hagens, and Team USA had their World Junior Championship run end prematurely with a loss to Finland on Friday, so that fun is over.
Sweden beat Finland in a shootout on Sunday to book their place in the final, while Canada and Czechia were still playing Sunday night while I put this together, so who knows what happens there.
Elsewhere in the hockey world, two ten-game winning streaks ended over the weekend, as the Buffalo Sabres (!?!?!) finally lost a game, falling to Columbus on Saturday, and the Colorado Avalanche lost to the Florida Panthers on Sunday.
(Small consolation for the Panthers, who got pasted by the New York Rangers on national TV in their Winter Classic on Friday.)
It was also a banner weekend for sucker punches in the NHL, as former Bruin John Beecher earned himself a one-game suspension over the weekend for decking Michael McCarron of the Nashville Predators and Logan Stanley got a game for punching Brady Tkachuk.
So much for those “I will be slower to anger” resolutions for 2026, I guess.
Lastly, in personal soccer news, it was a banner weekend for Wolves, who finally won a game in the Premier League. Thank you for your support.
Another day off before the B’s are back in action, what’s on tap for today?
