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In one room stood Rex Ryan, the beaten and exasperated coach of the Buffalo Bills. He wore a royal blue sweater vest, a throwback Bills cap and the look of a man simultaneously impressed and infuriated by his opponent. He said, gosh and shoot a lot, and shook his head as he wondered whether his team could have beaten the Patriots on this day even had it played perfectly, which it very much had not. He came right out and said he no longer felt it was possible for his team to win the AFC East.I think its unrealistic to think youre going to win your division when you just got beat by ... how many games are they up now? Three? Ryan said. That team is three games up on us and at the halfway point theyve lost one game. And No. 12 is back. So yeah, I dont see that happening. I hope Im wrong.In a smaller room, across the damp, chilly tunnel underneath Ralph Wilson Stadium, stood the aforementioned No. 12 --?Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. He wore a blue-gray designer trench coat and the look of a man on his way home after a satisfyingly productive day at the office. He was asked how it felt to be 7-1 at the seasons midpoint.Coach always says seven wins wont get you anything in this league, and hes right, Brady said. We have a lot of football ahead. This is when it starts to get feeling like football season.The NFLs season has progressed to the point in which?its teams must confront reality. And that can mean wildly different things for different teams. The two teams that were on this field Sunday head into the second half in two very different realities. The Patriots are where they always expect to be -- inexorably?Gronking their way to their 14th division title in 16 years, making sure they do everything they can to get the No. 1 seed in the AFC and home games on the road to the Super Bowl. The Bills are in their own accustomed spot -- right at .500 and watching Brady, Bill Belichick & Co. disappear over the horizon.It was only Ahab who agonized. The whale just kept swimming.It was all business, Patriots safety Devin McCourty said. We knew we were going to get their best shot, even with guys out. So it was just a lot of focus on getting a win here. We did, and we move on.The Patriots reality right now is just about pristine. Brady missed the first four games of the season, as you know, for his Deflategate suspension. Since coming back, hes completing 73.1 percent of his passes, averaging 329.8 yards and three touchdowns per game and has yet to throw an interception. He looks better, at age 39, than he did last season. When throwing the ball 20 or more yards downfield this season, he has?a 57.1 completion percentage and four touchdowns. In 16 games last season, he had a 33.3 completion percentage and only two touchdowns.I dont think Ive ever seen him this hot, Ryan said. Maybe one other time he scorched me like crazy, but I cant ever remember this kind of a day.The Bills reality right now is, for lack of a less loaded term, deflating. When they shut out the Patriots in Foxborough in Week 4, it was their second of four straight wins and the highlight of their season so far. But Jacoby Brissett was the Patriots quarterback that day, and the Bills offensive roster was a lot less injury-ravaged. They took the field Sunday without starting running back LeSean McCoy and top receivers Sammy Watkins and Marquise Goodwin. Receiver Robert Woods, tight end Charles Clay and backup running back Mike Gillislee all played through injuries.Thats reality, ugly as it is. Injuries happen, sometimes a lot of them at once, and Brady still plays for the Patriots. Add in an upcoming schedule that features road trips to Seattle, Cincinnati and Oakland, and reality is smacking the Bills around like an angry Buffalo winter.Itll be nice one day to sit back and have a full roster, Ryan said. Weve got to get them all healthy, and then well be able to evaluate this team a little bit better.By then, though, New England will almost certainly be too far ahead to see. And the reality is, even if that Week 4 home game remains the only blemish on their record all year, the Patriots arent going to be looking back over their shoulder at the Bills. Their reality is one of greater goals, bigger plans, more fearsome dragons to slay.Just get ready for Seattle, Belichick said, referencing the next team up for the Patriots after next weeks bye. Were heading into the NFC West now with Seattle, San Francisco and the Rams coming up soon. So well get a lot of teams were not very familiar with. 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We got a couple quick ones and we rode that, said Nathan MacKinnon, whose short-handed goal 12:57 into the game put Colorado up 2-0.The last time the Avs lost a game in Boston was March 30, 1998, when MacKinnon was just 2 years old.I had no idea. I know weve been hot here my first three years, MacKinnon said. Thats cool.Matt Duchene, John Mitchell and Carl Soderberg also scored for the Avs. Duchenes goal 5:30 into the game was the first of three unassisted tallies for Colorado, which shut down Boston in the third period after David Pastrnak scored twice in the second to pull the Bruins within 3-2.The Avs hadnt won since beating Columbus 3-2 in overtime on Nov. 21.We found a way to score first, which was nice, Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. We havent done that much lately, especially on this losing streak.Boston, coming off an overtime loss the night before at Washington, ended a streak of six straight games with a point. The Bruins are 4-1-2 in their last seven.Anton Khudobin had 18 saves for Boston, which fell behind 3-0 for the second straight night. The Bruins rallied Wednesday with three unanswered goals to force overtime before the Capitals won it 4-3. The Bruins didnt seem to have the energy for another comeback Thursday, getting just eight shots on goal in the third period.Until you can find your legs, youve got to be smart, and we werent, Boston coach Claude Julien said. We gave up some soft goals and certainly dug ourselvees a hole.ddddddddddddPastrnaks goals 1:20 apart in the second period briefly revived Boston, but the Bruins didnt score again despite outshooting Colorado 31-22 for the game.Calvin Pickard made 29 saves for the Avs.I think the second period we could have tidied it up a little bit. We lost some momentum, Duchene said. I think there is still lots of room for improvement but a start like that -- you get out to a 3-0 lead -- its pretty tough to blow that. Youve got to really play poorly and we played really solid in the third and especially in the first.Colorado led 2-0 after the first, then Mitchell made it 3-0 after forcing a turnover at the Colorado blue line and taking it the other way for a wrist shot that beat Khudobin on the stick side.It was only the 11th shot of the game for the Avalanche, who took an early lead on Duchenes 10th goal of the season and went up 2-0 when MacKinnon scored at 12:57.Pastrnak got Boston on the board with a breakaway goal just after getting out of the penalty box, then struck again on a slap shot from above the circles, the 18th goal of the season for Bostons 20-year old rising star.Game notes Avs RW Jarome Iginla played in his 1,499th career game, tying Mike Modano for 16th on the NHL career list. ... Colorado LW Gabriel Landeskogs return from a lower-body injury was delayed by an illness. Ladeskog missed his 10th straight game. ...Pastrnak and Pittsburghs Sidney Crosby are tied for the NHL lead in goals. ... Pastrnak extended his points streak to five straight games, scoring five goals and getting two assists during the span. ... Boston fell to 1-4 this season in the second of back-to-back games.UP NEXTAvalanche: Travel to Montreal for a game Saturday night.Bruins: Host the Maple Leafs on Saturday night. ' ' '