With the Boston Bruins leading by three entering the final frame of their Monday night Game-3 tilt versus the Toronto Maple Leafs, B’s fans felt they could breathe easy. However, 47 seconds into the stanza, old friend Phil Kessel brought the raucous Air Canada Centre crowd to their feet with a powerplay goal to narrow ...
One day after hundreds in Boston were victimized by bombings along the final stretch of the Boston Marathon, the pain and sadness linger. Yet while Boston grieves, displays of kindness and offers of charity from all over the world are helping to heal the city. Yesterday’s tragedy in Boston spurred the NHL and Bruins ...
Attention Boston Bruins Fans… the time has come… to Panic! … Actually, the exact opposite. Grab your towels, folks: While talk radio and the blogosphere* consistently eschew reason for histrionics, the B’s status is far from bleak. The Boston Bruins struggles are well documented. With an offense far from the juggernaut of ’11-’12, a powerplay ...
Seven days to go. One week before the NHL’s trade deadline locks teams into their rosters, preventing movement and setting up the race to the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Seven days for the Boston Bruins to make a splash and land players who will help them on their quest for a second championship in three ...
Sunday afternoon, hockey insiders reported that the Dallas Stars were close to moving their captain, forward Brenden Morrow to one of two teams: The Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Fans and analysts waited with baited breath for the decision to come down before, finally, Aaron Ward of TSN announced the Pens as the winners ...
The Boston Bruins opening-season successes have come in spite of an absence of depth scoring – specifically on their once vaunted third line. In a single offseason, what was a strength developed into a weakness. Rich Peverley’s per-game production has declined by more than half. Chris Kelly has scored nearly fifty percent less ...
The Boston Bruins snuck by with a win over Northeast Division rival Ottawa Senators in overtime Thursday night. Patrice Bergeron’s game-winning goal just barely rolled across the goal-line to give the Bruins their fifth consecutive win and thirteenth in seventeen games. The extra-frame tally was initially waived-off by referees. Reviews showed the puck trickling across ...
The Boston Bruins powerplay stinks. Currently thirtieth of thirty NHL squads, the Bruins’ single-digit (9.3%) rate puts the B’s in rarefied air of PP ineptitude. No point beating around the bush, the team’s lack of success in man-advantage situations borders on the obscene and puzzles the fanbase. For a team with elite top-six depth and ...
The Boston Bruins continued their nearly-unblemished run to start the abbreviated 2013 campaign with a 2-1 comeback win over the rival Canadiens Wednesday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Down 1-0 to open the third, the Bruins received goals off the sticks of Tyler Seguin and David Krejci while Tuukka Rask held the fort ...
The thousands on-hand watching the Boston Bruins’ comeback victory over the New York Islanders Friday began to chant a young defenseman’s name as time wound-down in the third. Four games into his career, Dougie Hamilton earned hockey’s version of the curtain-call thanks to a dynamic two-point performance. “Dougie! Dougie! Dougie!” The B’s won three of ...
