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Life is not easy for the Bruins these days. Whether their Secretariat-in-the-Belmont lead over the NHL field is dulling their edges or free-and-easy, lesser teams are looking for a nice notch on their belt, the B’s have looked quite pedestrian over the last week.

NEW YORK — The Rangers haven’t looked good in probably a month, since they dismantled the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh the night before the Super Bowl. But coming off a three-game road trip on which they went 2-0-1, they feel as though they are starting to find themselves.

PITTSBURGH — Once the Penguins start providing reasons to believe there might still be a Stanley Cup contender in there somewhere, they always deliver a dud like this.

PHILADELPHIA — With just 15 games remaining in the regular season and the playoffs all but out of reach, the Flyers tapped into their trademark resiliency that characterized the early part of their year.

NEWARK, N.J. — With Steven Stamkos out for Tuesday’s road game against the Devils, Brandon Hagel was reunited with Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov on the Lightning’s top scoring line.

RALEIGH, N.C. — On a day when it was learned forward Andrei Svechnikov would have season-ending surgery, the last thing the Carolina Hurricanes wanted to see was another player limping off the ice.

How did the NHL animate this real-time game between the Capitals and Rangers?

The fan bases of the Chicago Bears and Blackhawks are in different places right now.

The Hawks had kept an eye on Anderson for a while before acquiring him from the Maple Leafs, and assistant coach Derek Plante — who has known Anderson for years — has helped him acclimate. But now he must prove he deserves another contract.

The Kraken couldn’t get much going Monday night at Climate Pledge Arena, falling 5-2 to the Dallas Stars. The Stars took four points from back-to-back games in Seattle while the hosts managed one, from Saturday’s overtime loss.

MONTREAL — Artturi Lehkonen was standing at the same end of the ice where he scored the Canadiens’ most important goal of this century. That goal, the Game 6 overtime winner that sent Montreal to the Stanley Cup Final in 2021, played above him on the Bell Centre jumbotron.