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Pittsburgh PenguinsBy Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent While the New York Rangers fans and media speculate over the future of head coach John Tortorella and superstar roster player healthy scratch Brad Richards, the Boston Bruins are quietly preparing themselves for the final blow. Much has been made of the elusive fourth win in a best-of-seven series, ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent In recent years, Bruins fans may have grown accustomed to playoff overtime games. Thursday night’s Game One victory over the New York Rangers was just the latest in a memorable string of post-season overtime victories for the Boston Bruins franchise. With Game Two approaching, now seems like a good ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent I’m still not 100% certain that actually happened. There’s no way. This team? They’re the ones that blow 3-0 leads. They’re the ones that underachieve, collapse under pressure, that rally late but come up empty. This was the team that was supposed to lose Monday night. But instead, here we are, ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent Since the clock struck 0:00 on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, the Boston Bruins roster has been more or less cemented. The core group of players have remained in their familiar depth chart slots, with Boston management apparently believing “they have won before, they will win again.” Then Braden ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent Coming into the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins, the spotlight was shining most brightly on two players in particular: Phil Kessel and Tyler Seguin. Forever linked by the 2009 trade which sent Kessel to Toronto for three draft picks (Tyler Seguin, ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent The Boston Bruins had the Northeast Division within their sights. One game, two points, is all it would have taken for Boston to leapfrog the idle Montreal Canadiens in the standings, clinching home-ice advantage for the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Instead, they’ll be facing off ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent When Boston Bruins players entered TD Garden at roughly 2 PM on Monday afternoon, the only thing on their minds was getting two points out a clash with a divisional rival. By the end of the hour, that would change. The senseless bombings of Copley Square during the Boston ...
This isn’t Matt Cooke on Marc Savard. When Brad Marchand slowly guided himself to the ice, clutching the side of his helmet after an illegal elbow from New Jersey defenseman Anton Volchenkov, it didn’t appear that anyone aside from Marchand, Volchenkov, and referee Frederick L’Ecuyer had any clear idea of what happened.
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent A lot has been made of the Boston Bruins lackluster play as of late. Despite sitting at 4th place in the Eastern Conference, with a 99.998% chance of making the playoffs (according to sportsclubstats.com), there’s a palpable sense of gloom and doom surrounding the club. If this were not ...
By Wayne Whittaker, Boston Bruins Correspondent With names like Jarome Iginla, Martin St. Louis and Jaromir Jagr being casually tossed into conversation around Boston, it can be easy to get swept up in the hype of the upcoming trade deadline. The Bruins are positioning themselves for another deep playoff run, and will be looking to ...
