If you want to feel good about your Bruins’ recent run of success, it’s OK. Enjoy the moment. There’s more to like at the moment than after their three-game win streak to start the season.

After winning their fifth straight on Thursday, they sit two games over .500 at 9-7 and they’re in the top of half of the league for goals scored per game (3.19, 14th), something few people would have guessed was possible before the season.

But while the scoring for this team will most likely wax and wane throughout the season, a much more important development is now taking shape.

No longer are opposing forwards finding themselves habitually wide open in the slot to score goalls while Bruin defenders, often bunched up in a corner, stare at each other and wonder ‘What happened?’

Whatever made things

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