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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 [...]
Sour Grapes: Cherry Defends Defenceless While Backing Bruins
Sour Grapes is a feature that will run weekly on Mondays to begin each week, offering a summary of another crazy week around the NHL from the perspective of none other than Donald S. Cherry, distilled and interpreted into plain English so NHL fans everywhere can come to appreciate the wisdom behind the ranting and [...]
Bruins Fall 2-1 To Flyers In Season Opener At TD Garden
On Thursday evening, in front of a sold-out crowd of 17,565, the Boston Bruins dropped their home opener, at the TD Garden, to the Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1. The Opening Ceremonies: The night began with a celebration, unlike any other. The Bruins and their staff really put together a fantastic presentation for the loyal and [...]
News and Notes From B’s Training Camp 2011
As we sit, a mere 2 nights away from the opening of the Bruins’ pre-season schedule, when they will take on the Senators, at ScotiaBank Centre in Ottawa, 54 members of the Black and Gold have reported to Boston for training camp. While the rookies were in town at the beginning of last week, [...]
The 2011-12 Boston Bruins: Part 1: The Forwards
Before I get started here, I would like to ask that you all keep the families, friends and teammates of all those lost in the terrible tragedy in Russia yesterday morning, in your thoughts and prayers. The plane crash that took down the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL team is perhaps the biggest tragedy in [...]
Focus, Physicality Necessary For Bruins at Home Versus Canucks
The experience of Tim Thomas, Mark Recchi and other Bruin veterans was supposed to give the Eastern Conference Champions an edge heading into the Stanley Cup Final versus the Vancouver Canucks.Two games into a frustrating series for the Bruins, the rambunctious Canucks hold the upper hand heading into Game Three tonight in Boston.
Eastern Conference Finals Preview – David vs. Goliath? Not So Much
The fifth seeded Tampa Bay lightning will open the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday night versus the third seeded Boston Bruins at TD Garden. In short, both of these teams deserve to be here and trying to pick a winner is nearly impossible. The Bruins, coming off a sweep of Philadelphia, are in the conference [...]
Flyers Get The Wrong End Of The Broom
The Bruins closed strong and finished off my Flyers for the season 5-1, looking dominant for most of the series and still better than the Flyers even when Philly played its’ best hockey of the series in Game 2. The Flyers showed some signs of life off a Kris Versteeg goal in the 2nd period [...]
Flyers Lose Game 3 In First Minute
Well, 63 seconds to be precise. Pucks keep going in for Boston, as Zdeno Chara and David Krejci, picking up where he left off in OT in Game 2, put two quick ones past Brian Boucher and the Bruins never looked back. They now take a 3-0 lead into Game 4, after winning tonight 5-1 [...]
Bruins Put Flyers In 2-0 Hole With OT Win
My Flyers played a better game, jumped out to a two goal lead in the 1st but quickly gave it up and couldn’t get anything else past Boston goalie Tim Thomas and lost Game 2 3-2 in OT. James vanRiemsdyk, who was the best skater on the ice throughout, popped the first two in during [...]
Bruins Bury Flyers 7-3
Making shots and getting bounces often make the difference in close playoff games, and the Bruins got a flurry of bounces to put my Flyers as deep as four goals down and effectively closed out Game 1 taking it 7-3. Boston did just about everything right, especially taking full advantage on just about every chance [...]
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 [...]
Lightning Win A Wild One
In the most entertaining game of the year, the Tampa Bay Lightning overcame three, two goal deficits and scored the last three goals of the game to down the Flyers 8-7 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The Bolts won for the second consecutive night after losing six of the previous seven games. It [...]
Bruins Officially Sign Recchi To One-Year Extension
There’s not much left for winger Mark Recchi to accomplish in his Hall of Fame career, but that didn’t stop the 42-year old ‘Recching Ball’ from coming back for a third round with the Boston Bruins. Signing of a one-year extension worth one million dollars with nearly a half-million more in various incentive, Recchi’s return [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]