“If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.”

What exactly does Idries Shah have to do with Hockey?  The answer is as cryptic as the reasoning behind slumps and the history of fisticuffs on the ice - but the sentiment that he tried to evoke with his message is that if a person causes you to hate them, they control you...

...Is that what is happening with the Boston Bruins and their sudden slide from the top of the Eastern Conference standings?