All Entries Tagged With: "Marco Sturm"
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 [...]
Bruins GameDay: B’s Look To Get Back On Track As First-Place Cats Visit Garden
Tonight the Boston Bruins will look to get back to their winning ways and begin a new winning streak, as they return home for a showdown with the Southeast division leading Florida Panthers. Following a 2-1 loss at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre –their first regulation loss since October 27– Boston returns to the TD Garden for [...]
Line for Line, Note for Note: The 2012 Vancouver Canucks – Back In Black
It was a long off season for hockey fans, especially Canucks fans. The scars of a devastating Game Seven loss at home and an embarrassing downtown Vancouver riot only set the tone for a tragic summer for the entire hockey community. After relying heavily on music to pass the time without hockey, The Flying V [...]
Bolts Sweep Into Conference Finals
Sean Bergenheim scored two goals and Dwayne Roloson stopped 33 shots as the Tampa Bay Lightning swept away the top-seeded Washington Capitals, 5-3 in front of a packed house at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. Tampa Bay, playing on consecutive nights and playing their fifth game in eight nights increased their winning streak [...]
Top-20 worst bang-for-the-buck NHL forwards in 2010-11
When the 2010-11 NHL regular season ended about three weeks ago, some teams analyzed the production of some of their key players thinking why did we give so much money to the players listed below. While some productive players like Joe Thornton (21 goals, but 70 points), Henrik Sedin (19 goals, but 94 points) and [...]
George McPhee delivers on deadline day
George McPhee made the trades on deadline day that will lift the Capitals back into the contender discussion. McPhee was able to acquire Dennis Wideman from the Florida Panthers, and Jason Arnott from the New Jersey Devil. In addition, the Caps acquired Marco Sturm off the waiver wire on Saturday from the Los Angeles Kings. [...]
Discussing the Kovalev to Blues Rumor
Are the St. Louis Blues really kicking the tires on Ottawa Senators enigmatic forward Alex Kovalev? This is NHL trade rumor that needs analyzing.
Logically Looking at the Blues & Bruins as Trading Partners
The Boston Bruins need to create cap space to bring back Marc Savard. With key injuries the St. Louis Blues may need help in their forward ranks. Is there a deal to be made?
Sid & Bylsma at Odds Plus Other Notes
By now most Penguins fans have heard that Captain Sidney Crosby waded into the goalie situation in Pittsburgh over the past couple of days. To not mince words, here is what was said by the Captain. “He’s [Fleury] going to have good games. It’s not like he can change overnight. He’s going to put strings [...]
Weekly Fantasy: 10 players to avoid on draft day
With only one week before the first puck drops on the ice for the beginning of the 2010-11 NHL season, many of you will take part of a fantasy draft this weekend, whether it’s rotisserie or a head-to-head format. Please avoid the 10 players at all cost because of the injury risk they pose. Let [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Do Rask & The B’s Give Reason To Believe In Boston?
While it looked unlikely, and at times just plain impossible, the B’s are in the NHL Playoffs for the third straight season. It wasn’t easy, and the climb has yet to begin, but when the Bruins take to the ice of the HSBC Arena on Thursday night to begin their Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series against [...]
Bruins Look To Bury Bolts’ Playoff Hopes
If beating borderline playoff-quality clubs restores your faith in the Boston Bruins, you must be feeling on cloud nine tonight when the Bruins return home and play host to the 12th place Tampa Bay Lightning. Sitting eight points behind Boston for the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Lightning find themselves in a [...]
Will the real Boston Bruins please stand up?!?
There they were, on the precipice of disaster, and the excuse was prepared. How do you go on with the struggle when you have lost your best player? The NHL gave the Bruins every reason to quit on the season, ripping the collective heart from the team’s chest by multiplying the miscarriage of justice by [...]
The Streak ENDS at 10! B’s shutout the Habs
Today was one of those days that it is better to be lucky than good. The Bruins get off the schnide by heading up to Montreal and taking out the Habs 3-0 in a Superbowl Sunday matinee. While the game was not nearly as exciting as the Caps v Pens tilt earlier in the day, [...]
Bruins Look For Upset Of The Century Over Capitals
Tonight at the TD Garden, the Boston Bruins and visiting Washington Capitals will present us with a two teams going in complete opposite directions. Winners of 10 straight and nearly already clinching the Southeast Division with a 23 point lead over the Florida Panthers, the Washington Capitals march into Boston tonight with all the confidence [...]
Back from the Brink…Bruins show signs of life!
At the end of a long week filled with speculation, frustration and practice the B’s took the ice for back to back games against two teams fairing much better than the black and gold in the areas of performance, results, health, and of course the standings. The B’s saw the return of Marc Savard to [...]
Bruins in Trade Talks
The Boston Bruins have run into quite a wall going 2-7-1 in their last ten games. The Bruins may be putting the panic button on very soon. Trade rumors are swirling and the Bruins may be interested in Dion Phaneuf and Ilya Kovalchuk. The Bruins are in tenth place right now, just shy of that [...]
