All Entries Tagged With: "Marc Savard"
Cap-Crunching Ahead: Bruins Extend Mark Stuart
Boston Bruins sign Mark Stuart to a one-year extension, but with two-million dollars left in cap-space, what’s next for the Bruins?
B’s Enter Free-Agency With Big Needs & Little Money
It was a rainy day in March when the Bruins disappointed their fans by failing to pull the trigger on a trade that would’ve brought some much needed scoring up front to bolster a pedestrian offense. Despite a near-run to the Eastern Conference Finals amidst this lack of scoring, the B’s would once again come [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits Two Days Before Free Agency
Good afternoon ladies and gents’. I hope everyone enjoyed the NHL Draft and were satisfied with who their respective team selected. Here are your quick hits to help get you through this hot summer day (at least that is the way it is in New York): Puck Daddy: Greg Wyshynski looks at 10 UFA goaltenders [...]
Tonight The Bruins Will Pick…
It’s hard to contest that the Boston Bruins have had a draft pick as important as this one since 1997 when the club selected center and future Art Ross winner (albeit not completely with Boston) Joe Thornton with the first overall pick. Now, 13 years later, the B’s find themselves in possession of the NHL’s [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Lyle looks at the Trade Rumors Swirling about Thomas and Savard of the Bruins
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
A Marc-Savard-for-Tomas-Kaberle swap in the works?
According to different sources, the Bruins are rumored to be interested in Maple Leafs defenseman Tomas Kaberle. With the acquisition of Nathan Horton from the Florida Panthers, the Bruins have three quality centers in David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron and Marc Savard as well as Nathan Horton who can also play in middle and on the [...]
Presidencies & Rumors: A Quietly Busy Week In Boston
It’s been an interesting and eventful week in Boston, but the Boston Celtics and the trade (and ensuing riot via social-networking) of Jaroslav Halak to St. Louis by the Montreal Canadiens has really buried the Bruins’ headline-sweeping ability. However, with the temperatures approaching 90 degrees in the city of Boston, it’s probably the only time [...]
The Bruins Year That Was: Patrice Bergeron
Career-changing, franchise-changing, and even life-changing. Those were some of the changes the hockey world thought the concussion woes of Patrice Bergeron would bring to the 24-year old forward and the Boston Bruins organization. After suffering his second major cocussion in just under 14 months, the concerns as to the well-being of the Bruins’ alternate-captain grew [...]
The Bruins Year That Was: Steve Begin
Delving into the first of an off-season series of pieces taking a look back at the Bruins’ season, starting with forward Steve Begin.
Bruins failed to learn the lesson…
It seems like I barely was able to supplant the bitter disappointment of puck ricocheting off of Scott Walker’s shin and slipping past Tim Thomas in OT of game 7, with the elation of the 2010 Bruins team using their current playoff run as the final answer to the lofty pre-season expectations because the inevitable [...]
Make It Seven: Bruins On Brink Of Ultimate Failure
Where to begin? Was it the season-ending wrist injury to the resurgent David Krejci in Game 3? Was it in Game 4 when the returning Simon Gagne played the hero in overtime, parked in front of the net uncontested by Zdeno Chara and Dennis Wideman on the play? Or was it the meltdown of a [...]
Dogfight Of A Series: Richards’ Bark & Savard’s Bite
Well, this didn’t take very long; After just two games, it appears that the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers are ready to pummel one another. Is anybody truly surprised? Two teams based off creating chances through hard work, rely on a barrel-full of toughness to generate energy in their buildings, and boast two of the [...]
Late Lucic Goal Gives Bruins 2-0 Series Lead
During the regular season, the Boston Bruins were unable to string more than two consecutive wins on home ice. Now, after some more late-game theatrics at the TD Garden, the B’s are heading to Philadelphia with a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. I’m sure a ‘History Will Be Made’ parody could fit [...]
Eastern Conference Round 2 Bruins v. Flyers: Observations From the Balcony
Now that I am living more than 4 hours outside of Boston I cherish the games I get to even more than I have in the past. This season I rode the roller coaster with the Bruins, and loved every moment of the historic Winter Classic at Fenway. I stood and cheered when the Bruins [...]
Krejci & Satan Power Bruins To Second Round
In a first round series, it’s not often that the two clubs are as evenly matched-up in every aspect of the game as the Boston Bruins and Buffalo Sabres were. Both teams came into this series boasting two of the league’s best goaltenders, both came in missing some key players, and both surprised their fans [...]
Who’s In & Who’s Out For Game 6 In Boston?
Taking to the ice of the HSBC Arena in Game 5, the Buffalo Sabres played the role of survivor all too well. Determined not to see their season end on home ice, the Sabres were aggressive in every end and won soundly by the final score of 4-1. Quickly turning into an ill-tempered series on [...]
Bruins living up to expectations – Game 6 Must Win!
After a regular season which left many fans of the Black & Gold questioning if their team had the grit and heart necessary to avoid embarrassment in the playoffs, the Bruins have more than answered the call. With the series tied at one game apiece, the Bruins played with the tenacity they lacked much of [...]
So, You Need A Bandwagon?: Eastern Conference
Ah, the brutal pain of realizing your favorite team won’t be competing for Lord Stanley’s hardware. For some it’s more bitter than others when your club was a single point out of the top eight or are left out due to the inevitable injury bug. For others, just wondering the direction of your franchise can [...]
Bruins Beat Cooke But Get Dominated By Penguins
During tonight’s disgraceful effort put forth by the Boston Bruins, Patrice Bergeron couldn’t find the puck between his skates as the Boston offense was in the midst of their full-on catastrophe when a woman sitting near me, a fan of the B’s for over 40 years said “I can’t believe this”, and all I could [...]
Cooke & Penguins Visit Unwelcoming Boston
Tim McCracken hasn’t been called up, nor has Ogie Oglethorpe, but you can expect the Bruins to let the Penguins know they’re there tonight when the two teams take the Garden ice tonight for the first time since Matt Cooke’s (likely) season-ending hit on B’s top-line forward Marc Savard. By now, we all know the [...]
