Okay, Bruins. Today is the first day of the rest of your lives. In the eternal words of whatever coach that was for the Capitals last year, it's time to grab your sack and f***ing compete. It's the anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, the Blues are honoring Melrose native and Malden Catholic product Keith Tkachuk, and...I don't know, it's Wednesday? All good reasons to win tonight.

After the jump, USA USA USA, some trades and games and stuff happened last night, and STL praises the Bruins...

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The Bruins have an entire day off in St. Louis today. I'm pretty jealous. I too would love an entire day to run around downtown, go up in the Arch, visit some of the gardens and museums and stuff, probably hang out on the roof deck. All awesome things. Hopefully new arrival Carter Camper gets some quality bonding time with the big kids, and maybe there will even be a trade to make things interesting today.

Carter Camper's callup is making one thing shockingly obvious: Zach Hamill's time has come and gone. The Bruins gave the former first-round pick a number of games this year, after burying him in the minors since 2009, and he did next to nothing with them. He has three assists, no goals in 19 career NHL games. The singular move I actually expect to see the Bruins make at this trade deadline is to move Hamill at the trade deadline; his contract is up at the end of this season, and while he's struggled in Providence as well under the eye of Bruce Cassidy, he may well be able to help another AHL team shooting for the Calder Cup.

After the jump, hilarious Capitals fans are hilarious, a short thing on Carter Camper, and Rick Nash to New York or LA?

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Sorry about the lack of a clever title, but none of you read this anyways, so I'm not that pressed. I'm really way too excited to see the Bruins in two days to function, how in the heck am I going to get through the next two work days.

Anyway, the Bruins dropped a stinker in Minnesota - you might say "oh hey Sarah you're an idiot, they put 49 shots on goal how is that a stinker!" but when approximately 45 of those shots are straight into Niklas Backstrom's chest, you are not going to score goals. Seriously. It's going to be tough without Nathan Horton and Rich Peverley, going forward, and maybe this is the time to make a big trade, but whether a trade happens or not, wins are not going to happen against good goalies like Backstrom with poor quality shots like that.

After the jump, a really long fight, a look at the next opponent, the Red Wings won a lot of games at home, and more...

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Not a good start to the 6-game road trip for the Bruins, but they'll look to get back on track in Minnesota this afternoon in a nationally televised game against the Wild. It being Hockey Day in America today, it only makes sense that the Hub of Hockey takes on the State of Hockey.

Links will be a little shorter today as I'm typing this on a bus from Portsmouth (England, not Rhode Island), but hopefully that just means the selection will be better. Happy Hockey Day!

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So the Bruins are on the road against the Winnipeg Jets tonight. As we've all learned, be prepared to hear Zdeno Chara get booed lustily for the second game in a row - at least it's not because he's been hit in the face with a puck this time.

Five days until the Bruins come to St. Louis. I can't really contain my excitement. But also I'm sort of terrified. I feel like Jessie Spano.

Links after the jump, you know the drill.

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The Canadiens have exactly 24 games left to pull their heads out of you-know-where if they want to make the playoffs. Considering that it probably won't happen, and also considering that it's February 16 - do you realize that it's going to be at LEAST 235 days until the Bruins and Canadiens play again? That's assuming the season starts on October 8, and also assuming that the two teams don't, by some cruel trick of the schedule, have to wait even longer to face each other.

Basically, we have to sit through an entire Red Sox season before we see another Bruins/Habs game. I don't know about you, but that makes me a little sad.

After the jump, Rich Peverley is hurt again, Teemu Selanne is awesome, and blocking shots with your face is a bad idea...

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The Bruins are going to lose every game from here on out. The Bruins should trade Tim Thomas. The Bruins should ACTUALLY trade Dougie Hamilton, David Krejci and ALL THE PICKS for Rick Nash. OR maybe they should trade Patrice Bergeron. Yeah, that's it. Let's trade Patrice Bergeron for like, Bobby Ryan or something. Because the current formula isn't working!!!1

Okay. Got that all out of your system? Good. The fact of the matter is, if you truly thought the November-December tear would last all year, you're a little delusional. It's like that Flyers 82-0 commercial; a lampoon of an actual hockey season. Every Stanley Cup team since the lockout has suffered a "slump" between 1/15 and 3/1 - a slump that still includes wins. While losing does suck, and I don't encourage the team to keep doing it, let's also consider some other former front runners from earlier this year. The Minnesota Wild, formerly in first place in the conference, are currently 3-6-1 in their last 10, sitting in 11th place with 58 points. The Washington Capitals, touted coming into the season as one of the premier teams to beat, are sitting in 9th place with 61 points. Bruins fans: our team is still in second. Let's wait a little while before we actually hit panic.

After the jump, Evander Kane is growing up, an awesome SI article on Brad Marchand, and Andrew Ference gets his own TV show...

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Did anyone watch the Grammys last night? Me neither. Too much hockey on to actually devote time to crappy, crapp music being lauded by Hollywood idiots. There are a lot of teams out west making a lot of noise, specifically in the Central Division. Not that I don't enjoy the Bruins curb-stomping everyone else in theNortheast, but it's so fun to watch this dogfight for the division. Can't wait to see which teams make moves and which don't...the trade deadline is fast approaching.

After the jump, looking at the Bruins' true value, another player returns from a concussion, and a Carl Soderberg update....whaaa?

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