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Are Bruins really ready for playoffs?

By Kevin Paul Dupont

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 30, 2012

The Bruins missed their chance Thursday night to clinch a playoff spot and they did it in rather unspectacular fashion, no matter what thrills a 3-2 overtime loss might misstate. Their game was dull most of the night. They were without urgency, swagger, jam, moxie - all the elements they boiled in their Stanley Cup-clinching brew last season - for the better part of three periods.

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