All Entries Tagged With: "injury"
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kings GM Dean Lombardi on Penner and PancakeGate
Last night Dustin Penner offered an ‘open letter’ on MayorsManor.com to explain his side of what went down with his recent back injury and the surrounding media attention related to his eating of some ‘delicious pancakes.’ That story has gone somewhat viral since, with references and links on the Edmonton Journal, Puck Daddy’s Yahoo Sports blog, [...]
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 [...]
Report: No Suspension For Bruins’ Adam McQuaid
In the entire sport of hockey, your likely not going to come across many players as honestly genuine as Boston Bruins’ defenseman Adam McQuaid. In the few interactions I’ve been lucky enough to have with no. 54 in Black and Gold, I’ve come to learn that despite the edge he’s shown himself capable of playing [...]
Life Without Chara? B’s Captain Befallen With Leg Injury
Sometimes the most undervalued players in Boston, Bruins’ captain Zdeno Chara has been about as steadily effective forces on the blueline as there is in the NHL. Often relied upon to shutdown an opponent’s top-line, — something Big Z has excelled at during his time in Black and Gold — Chara has more than proven [...]
Crosby’s Return Reveals Deeper Problem In The Fabric Of The NHL
While today, Sunday November 20, 2011 will likely be remembered as a memorable day in the annals of NHL hockey history, the events of today have brought to light a deeper problem that Commissioner Bettman and the NHL will be faced with for years to come. Today we learned of the imminent return of the [...]
Bruins GameDay: B’s Look To Extend Winning Streak At Home Against Isles
Following a 7-0 trouncing of the (then) NHL-best Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday, the Boston Bruins return home to host John Tavares and the struggling New York Islanders. Losing six consecutive games prior to Saturday evening’s 5-3 home victory over the Washington Capitals, the Isles sit at 4-5-2 (10 [...]
Seguin Stars In B’s 6-2 Trouncing Of Toronto
Regardless of either player’s feelings for one another, 24-year old Maple Leafs’ winger Phil Kessel and 19-year old Bruins’ pivot Tyler Seguin will be linked and compared to one another throughout their entire careers. All of this thanks to a trade in the summer of 2009 that sent 3 top-end draft choices (the first [...]
Bruins GameDay Preview: Leafs & B’s Set To Square Off At The Garden
Tonight at TD Garden, the Boston Bruins (2-4-0 (4 Points)) will play host to the white-hot Toronto Maple Leafs (4-0-1 (9 Points)). The Bruins will look to rebound from an ordinarily ugly loss at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night in the Hub. Tonight also kicks off divisional play for the [...]
Bruins GameDay Preview: Hurricanes at Bruins
On Tuesday evening, the Boston Bruins (2-3-0 (4 Points)) will look to build off Saturday’s impressive 3-2 shootout victory against the Chicago Blackhawks, when they host Eric Staal and the Carolina Hurricanes (2-2-1 (5 Points)). This will be the second time the Bruins will face off against the ‘Canes in 2011-’12, the first of [...]
Bruins Fall To Ottawa 2-1 In Pre-Season Home Finale
Last night, in the final Pre-Season game of 2011 at the TD Garden, the Boston Bruins fell to the visiting Ottawa Senators, 2-1. It was the Bruins who would get on the board first, when Milan Lucic scored Boston’s 6th Power-Play goal in 4 games. Good puck possession, in the offensive zone from Boston’s [...]
Notes From B’s Black & White Game ; Roster vs Ottawa
Last night in Providence, at the Bruins annual Black & White game at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, rookie Alexander Khokhlachev lead team Black to a 4-1 victory. Lane MacDermid and Daniel Paille also added goals for the Black squad, while 2010 2nd Round Draft choice Ryan Spooner scored the lone goal for the White team. [...]
Highlights from Meeting w/ Kings GM Dean Lombardi
Kings GM Dean Lombardi recently met with a group of about 500 season ticket holders – whom he repeatedly referred to as the team’s shareholders – at their training facility in El Segundo, CA. Backing him up were Jeff Solomon (VP of Hockey Operations) and Ron Hextall (Assistant General Manager). Among the topics covered were the [...]
Recap: LA Kings Willie Mitchell on NHL Radio
Recap of Willie Mitchell radio interview – he talks about last night’s fight between rookie Kyle Clifford and Shawn Thornton (Boston Bruins), plus name drops Rick Rypien and Milan Lucic…and explains how his head injury actually helped him.
Crosby to miss All Star Game: Clearing up concussion confusion
In the least surprising news of the week, the Pittsburgh Penguins officially announced that captain Sidney Crosby will not participate in this weekend’s All Star Game activities so that he can continue to rest and recover from the concussion he suffered at the beginning of the month. Crosby spoke candidly and at length this afternoon about [...]
Crosby out with concussion: When did it occur?
The Pittsburgh Penguins dropped a 2-1 decision to the Canadiens in Montreal last evening in a shootout. Benoit Pouliot scored the only goal of the tiebreaking session in the fifth round after he tied the game mid-way through the second period. After the game, an announcement by Pittsburgh head coach Dan Bylsma overshadowed the Pens’ loss. He [...]