All Entries Tagged With: "David Krejci"
Fleury, Malkin Lead Pens Past Struggling Bruins
Hockey is a strange game folks. When things are going your way, everything seems to be clicking, you play with confidence, you tend to get the breaks here and there. You feel as if nothing is ever going to go wrong. However, when you’re struggling it’s a completely different ball game. All of a sudden [...]
Ward Stops 47 As B’s Are Again Stymied By ‘Canes
Throughout my years of watching sports, I’ve never been fond of the expression “they just have your number” in response to being beaten repeatedly by the same team. However, watching each of the four meetings between the struggling Carolina Hurricanes and the defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins I’ve begun to think that my belief is [...]
GameDay: Bruins & Canes Set To Meet For Final Time This Season
Tonight the Boston Bruins will play their fourth and final match-up of the season against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes. The B’s are coming off a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday evening and will be playing in the second game of a three game home-stand. The ‘Canes will be playing in their [...]
B’s Use Third Period Rally To Edge Sens 4-3 At TD Garden
The surprising Ottawa Senators have drawn fame this season from their ability to overcome early deficits and rally from behind to win games in the third period. Unfortunately for the squad from Canada’s capital, these roles were reversed on Tuesday in a 4-3 defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins. Recovering from a 1-0 [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 20-23-4 with 44 points through 47 games. After 47 games last season, the Bolts were 27-15-5 with 59 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by ten points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points [...]
Gaborik Plays Hero As Rangers Edge Bruins In Battle Of Eastern Conference Elite
On Saturday afternoon, the New York Rangers came to TD Garden as the first place team in the Eastern Conference. When they left the snowy mess of New England, they we’re still atop the conference after an impressive 3-2 overtime win over the defending Stanley Cup Champions. With only 3.6 seconds left in overtime in [...]
How They Stack Up: Bruins Mid-Season Report Cards
Through forty-two games of the 2011-’12 regular season, the Boston Bruins have proven themselves a truly resilient bunch, and deserving of another chance at Lord Stanley’s Cup this spring. After a 3-7-0 start to the year, the Black and Gold have emerged from a slow start to build up a 59-point total through the mid-season [...]
Thornton’s Penalty Shot, Third Period Domination Enough To Lead Bruins Past Jets
On what was a far more exciting Mid-January night than one would have expected, the Boston Bruins were able to use a strong third period effort to up-end the Winnipeg Jets 5-3 and right the ship after a Saturday matinee loss to the Vancouver Canucks just three days ago. Through forty minutes of surprisingly exciting [...]
GameDay: B’s Look To Get Back On Track Against Wheeler, Jets
On Tuesday evening, the Boston Bruins will look to bounce back from their 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks, when they host Blake Wheeler, Mark Stuart and the rest of the Winnipeg Jets. The B’s and Jets have met twice already this season, with each team winning one game. This first meeting saw the Black [...]
Canucks Edge Bruins In Penalty-Riddled Finals Rematch
In a game that saw 30 penalties, 18 power-plays, a penalty shot, and a combined 107 minutes of penalties, the Vancouver Canucks exacted a small bit of revenge against the Boston Bruins, as they defeated the B’s by a 4-3 score. With a chance to showcase arguably the two best teams in the league, and [...]
Bruins Put Out The Flames, Route Calgary For 9-0 Victory
On a night less than 48 hours in advance of a highly anticipated Stanley Cup Finals rematch with the Vancouver Canucks, it would have been easy to expect a “let-down” of sorts in Boston on Thursday evening when the Bruins played host to the Calgary Flames. Also, in a game that the B’s would be [...]
GameDay: Rask, B’s Set To Host Iginla’s Flames At TD Garden
Following a 6-1 slaughtering of the New Jersey Devils on Prudential Center ice on Wednesday, the Boston Bruins will look to kick-start another winning streak on Thursday when they host Jarome Iginla and the Calgary Flames. The Bruins, winners of seven of their last eight games, have not lost a home game at TD Garden [...]
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 [...]
Marchand’s Hat-Trick Leads Red Hot Bruins To 8-0 Route Of Panthers
Widely recognized as the best team in hockey already, the Boston Bruins did everything they possibly could to further that assumption on Friday night. Unbeaten (in regulation) in his last ten starts against the B’s, Panthers’ netminder Jose Theodore entered Friday’s game fresh off a December 8 shutout of the Black and Gold, right here [...]
GameDay: Bruins Set To Host Panthers In Pre-Christmas Showdown
On Friday night, the Boston Bruins will play host to the Florida Panthers. The B’s, 19-2-1 in their last 22 games, are 0-1-0 this season against the South Florida Cats after a 2-0 loss at the TD Garden back on December 8. The Bruins will look to extend their nine point lead in the Northeast [...]
Bruins Bring Smiles To Many With Annual Holiday Toy Drive
This past Monday afternoon (Dec. 12), the Boston Bruins held their annual holiday toy shopping event at the Target store in Woburn, Massachusetts. The trip was made to purchase items for children who will be unable to spend the holidays at home this season, confined to Boston area hospitals with diseases and illnesses. Being lucky [...]
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 [...]
Coach Julien Not Satisfied By Bruins’ 5-2 Win In Ottawa
Sometimes you just have to win ugly. As simple as that may sound, it’s often true in the game of hockey, especially in a league as competitive as the NHL. On Wednesday night, for the second consecutive evening the Boston Bruins won their second straight game without the services of captain Zdeno Chara. In a [...]
Rask’s 41 Stops Enough To Bury Struggling Kings
On Tuesday evening at the TD Garden the Boston Bruins were able to begin what they hope will be another extended winning streak, shutting down the Los Angeles Kings to the tune of a 3-0 victory. Backstopped by 41 saves from Tuukka Rask, –who recorded his 1st shutout since March– the B’s used two tallies [...]
Theodore’s 40 Saves Backstop Panthers To 2-0 Statement Victory At TD Garden
Ladies and gentlemen, the Florida Panthers are for real. Now alone in first place in the Eastern Conference, Head Coach Kevin Dineen’s bunch just continues to prove the hoards who doubted his team completely wrong. The Panthers came through with a huge win on Monday over the division rival Washington Capitals. However, the South Beach [...]