ATLANTIC DIVISION HOLIDAY GIFT

BY JARED CLINTON

Perhaps the Bruins will shake off the cobwebs and find their groove by the holiday break, but the early returns suggest that Boston’s entire roster could use some new ALARM CLOCKS. Anything, really, to stir them out of their sleepy start to the campaign. Management will be hoping the late-November firing of coach Jim Montgomery will wake the B’s, but there’s no excuse for the ugly underlying metrics and poor eye-test performance of a team that was projected to be in the thick of things in the East. What do you give the team that has everything? Who knows. When it comes to the Sabres, though, there’s no need to overthink it. Buffalo needs a PLAYOFF BERTH. Captain Rasmus Dahlin was 11 years old the last time the franchise punched its…

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