Milian Lucic Bruins

The Boston Bruins have been on an up-and-down ride since winning the Stanley Cup last June. It was mostly up until late January. A publicized flap where goalie Tim Thomas declined to attend a White House ceremony honoring the team due to political differences with President Obama coincided with a tough stretch for the team. They lost 11 of 20, which is hardly a catastrophe in the course of a long season. Then came a complete meltdown where they lost four games by a combined score of 21-8, which has since been followed by a revival with seven wins in nine games and the clinching of the Northeast Division. TheSportsNotebook sizes up the Bruins and looks into the hows and whys of both their recent highs and lows…