All Entries Tagged With: "Carey Price"
Pivotal Summer For Yzerman Regime Begins
With the 2011-12 Tampa Bay Lightning season complete, it’s time to focus on the upcoming campaign as the Bolts brass begins to build the team and solidify the roster as we race towards the official start of the NHL’s Free Agency period on July 1. Tampa Bay will certainly look to improve the goaltending and [...]
Canadiens Knock Out Red Wings 7-2
With the All-Star break just hours ahead, the Detroit Red Wings were already thinking about being away from the rink and, wow, did it really show. The Montreal Canadiens were the team that wanted it more and they made a statement by schooling the Red Wings 7-2 in a rare matchup between the two “Original [...]
An Inside Look At The NHL’s First Ever In-Game Trade
In any sport, it’s normal for a team to make trades. For a variety of reasons, trades are used to help build franchises. Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Well, what made the Montreal Canadiens’ trade of top line winger Michael Cammalleri so different was the fact that he was traded during the second intermission [...]
Old-School Rivalry Taking On New Feel As B’s Sink Habs 2-1 At TD Garden
Once upon a time, the rivalry between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens was revered as one of the best in all of sport. A time when every meeting between the two Original Six foes was regarded as “must-watch television”, where each and every hockey fanatic in New England and Quebec, casual and die-hards [...]
GameDay: Rivalry Rekindled As Habs Pay Final Visit To The Hub
On Thursday evening, the Boston Bruins will look to create a new winning streak when they play host to the rival Montreal Canadiens for the third and final time this season. The B’s and Habs have split the season series 2-2 thus far, with each side taking a game a piece at each of the [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-20-3 with 37 points through 40 games. After 40 games last season, the Bolts were 21-11-5 with 47 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points out [...]
Top 10 Bruins Moments Of 2011
First off, as I return from a week long vacation from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy New Year. Here’s to another splendid year in 2012… Now, with the year 2011 coming to a close tomorrow evening when the clock strikes midnight, I figured that now [...]
Red Wings Rally Past Blues 3-2
If there was a movie based on tonight’s game, it would have been called “Less Than 60 Seconds.” That is how long it took the Detroit Red Wings to step up their offense and it led to their 3-2 come-from-behind win over the St. Louis Blues at the Joe Louis Arena. Pavel Datsyuk scored the [...]
Divisional Series: The Beasts Of The Northeast
Over the next two weeks, the Boston Bruins will be given the luxury of a considerably light schedule, especially by NHL standards, with only three more games slated for the 2011 calendar year. This coupled with the beginning of winter break at colleges across the country, has left me with some extra time to write. [...]
Resurgent Pouliot Leads B’s Past Habs For 5th Straight Victory
“Losing one of your top players like that, we all have to step up individually and as a team and tonight we did a good job.” – Tyler Seguin Despite the suspension of first line winger Milan Lucic, the Boston Bruins continued their red-hot roll on Monday night against the hated Canadiens. Playing without Lucic [...]
The Slide Continues As B’s Are Swept By Rival Habs
I feel like I’ve wrote this before. Actually a couple of times before. Right, that’s because I have wrote this before. For the third consecutive contest, the Boston Bruins lost a meaningful game. Dropping seven of their first ten games this season, the Bruins solidified their position of 15th in the Eastern Conference, as [...]
Bruins Drop Another; Fall To Dead-Last In Eastern Conference
Entering Thursday, the Boston Bruins were in desperate need of points. They sat at 13th in the Eastern Conference –3 points behind the 8th place Devils –. It was supposed to be the best game they’ve had this year, in a playoff-like atmosphere against their most hated rivals (who were also struggling, at 14th [...]
Boston Bruins Week In Review; Trade Brewing?
Following a 3-2 shootout victory at Chicago’s United Center, the Boston Bruins returned home to TD Garden to begin a 4-game home-stand. Prior to the start of the home-stand, the B’s record sat at 2-3-0 (4 Points). After three quarters of this stretch of games at the TD Garden, the B’s record is at 3-5-0 [...]
Canadiens claim Blair Betts off waivers, finalize 23-man roster for opening night
The Montreal Canadiens have claimed center Blair Betts off waivers earlier today from the Philadelphia Flyers, who had put the defensive specialist on waivers yesterday to free up cap space. Betts is entering the second and final year of a two-year contract worth $700,000 annually. The 31 year-old center played 75 games for the Flyers [...]
Bruins Complete 2-Game Sweep Of Montreal; Prepare for Senators In Pre-Season Home Finale
On Monday night, the Bruins faced off against the rival Canadiens for the second straight night. This time, the game would be at Montreal’s home arena, the Bell Centre. Coming off a strong performance the night before, in a 7-3 victory against the Habs, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Bruins were looking for the [...]
Montreal Canadiens: Player Projections for the 2011-12 season – part 3, goalies
Last week I looked at the offensive production of the Canadiens’ defensive brigade and two weeks earlier, I had a look at the Canadiens’ top-12 forwards trying to predict their offensive output. In the third and last part of this player-projection series, I will analyze the Habs’ goalie tandem. Looking for more stability behind Carey [...]
Why Thomas and Price Are a Class Above Luongo
They are the netminders for teams with arguably the most heated rivalry in all of sport, Tim Thomas and Carey Price toil under the weighty expectations which accompany being the cornerstone of their team’s success. The environment is one which thrusts them onto center stage each time they step on the ice; each save, miscue, [...]
Bruins win tight series, Game 7 vs. Habs 4-3 on Horton’s OT winner
After the Bruins took an early two-goal lead in game 7 five minutes into the deciding contest, with goals from Johnny Boychuk and Mark Recchi, everyone thought the Canadiens would let go and that it was going to be over early for the visitors. But the Canadiens took advantage of special teams with a power [...]
Canadiens take commanding 2-0 series lead against hapless Bruins
Well, who would have thought the Montreal Canadiens, the sixth-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, would take a commanding 2-0 series lead against their division rivals and third-seeded team, the Boston Bruins, beating the Big Bad Bruins 2-0 and 3-1 in back-to-back road wins. The Canadiens, under head coach Jacques Martin, have played two perfect [...]
Montreal Canadiens set to face division rivals Boston Bruins
It was written in the sky; the Montreal Canadiens will face the Boston Bruins in the playoffs for the 33rd time in NHL history, and for the fifth time in the first round since 2002. The Canadiens currently have a 24-8 all-time playoff series record against the Bruins, but Boston swept the series the last [...]
