The puck drops on yet another NHL hockey season this week, and with so much anticipation and expectation building about our local Bruins team, it felt like quite the long summer having to wait it out before the B’s get their chance at erasing the painfully embarrassing playoff exit last spring. Boston has retooled their [...]
The Bruins have a lot of trouble scoring goals on the power play, and it gets even worse at even strength. They continued to struggle in both departments during Saturday’s 4-2 win against the Hurricanes. When Matt Hunwick headed back to the penalty box to start the second period, he told teammates to kill the [...]
In a season-long, seven-game stretch on the road that went a long way in defining the season, the Bruins actually fared decent, especially considering all the drama with Marc Savard’s near-decapitation and the league’s support of its ridiculous rules instead of its own players. All that aside, the Bruins took the ice Tuesday night against [...]
Last stop: Raleigh, NC. It’s been a bumpy road for the Bruins (30-26-12), who make their seventh and final stop on their season-long road trip this evening, where tonight they will take on the resurgent Carolina Hurricanes (28-32-8). Don’t look now, but once the laughing stock of the league, the ‘Canes have rebounded in astounding [...]
It doesn’t get much uglier than this, Bruins fans. On an afternoon where the B’s looked to right the sinking ship, the ship sunk to a new low, as Boston fell to the Eastern Conference’s cellar dwellers, the Carolina Hurricanes, by a convincing score of 5-1. The loss marked the fifth straight for Boston, and [...]
For the first time in a long time, the Bruins (23-19-8) wake up this morning to find themselves on the outside looking in on the Eastern Conference playoff picture. After Saturday’s 2-1 loss to Ottawa, coupled with wins from other teams in the East, Boston now finds themselves down to fourth in the Northeast Division, [...]
The Southeast Division has to be considered the Washington’s division to lose this season, as their dominance should continue in the ’09-’10 season. Led by Alexander the Great, Washington is the clear class of the Southeast Division. Now, that doesn’t mean we won’t see other Southeast teams at the back of the playoff hunt, however. [...]
The Bruins got back on track and did what they do best (getting vengeance in the process), with a convincing 7-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes, metaphorically giving them a Bill Bellichick t-shirt in return for last season’s playoff loss. With visions of evil still in their heads, the Bruins started aggressively, scoring three times [...]
The Carolina Hurricanes return to the scene of the crime tonight at TD Garden, as they come back to the building where Scott Walker and the ‘Canes stole a Game 7 overtime victory from the top-seeded Bruins in the second round of last season’s playoffs. After the heated seven-game series last spring, these two squads [...]
It seems that some Boston Bruins enjoy proverbs a bit too much. A current favorite: “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” Wednesday, center Stéphane Yelle became the second Bruin this offseason to join the Carolina Hurricanes, the team that pulled off a surprising upset of the Bruins in the second round of this past [...]
Patrick Eaves, the right-winger who was a Boston Bruin for less than one week in July, signed a one-year contract worth $500,000 with two-time defending Western Conference champions, the Detroit Red Wings. The Bruins acquired the 25-year-old forward and a fourth-round pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for [...]
In what must be an effort to free up space for a Phil Kessel signing down the road, the Bruins today traded veteran defenseman Aaron Ward to Carolina in exchange for right winger Patrick Eaves and a fourth-round draft pick. Immediately after acquiring Eaves, GM Peter Chiarelli placed the 25-year-old winger on waivers for the [...]
While we may no have been the biggest fans of Scott Walker, it looks like he learned of some difficult news during the Bruins series: his wife, Julie, was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The good news is she is expected to make a full recovery. Walker held back from discussing the hard news at all [...]
The Carolina Hurricanes put an end to the magical season for the Bruins as Scott Walker (yes, the guy who sucker punched Aaron Ward in Game 5) scored with just more than a minute left in the first overtime to send the Canes to the Conference Finals and the Bruins to the golf course. “I [...]
The team that crushed the Montreal Canadiens has come back to play at last against the Hurricanes. The Bruins shutout the Carolina Hurricanes in convincing fashion with a 4-0 victory. The Bruins started out the game with strong play on both ends of the rink. They took care of the puck with great skating and [...]