The Bruins must really love that home cooking. For the second straight game, the Bruins emerged victorious in their own building after a 1-4-2 roadtrip. They beat the Ducks and now lead the Eastern Conference by nine points as the season’s regular season nears the home stretch. The Bruins earned their 42nd win in the [...]
The Bruins, consitently good all season, were in the midst of their first rough stretch in quite awhile. Losers of a season-high four straight games (0-2-2), the B’s were in desperate need of a win over medicore Carolina Hurricanes (28-25-5). Matt Cullen scored his 15th goal 11:03 into the first period to give the ‘Canes [...]
P.J. Axelsson scored on Boston’s fifth shootout attempt after Tim Thomas stopped all five Ottawa shooters in the NHL-leading Bruins’ 4-3 victory over the Senators on Thursday night. Thomas made a sensational glove stop on Dany Heatley after turning aside Jason Spezza, Daniel Alfredsson, Brendan Bell and Antoine Vermette. Chuck Kobasew tied the score at [...]
The Devils did earn the win, sort of. Jamie Langenbrunner scored his second goal of the game with 1:11 gone in overtime and the New Jersey Devils, who allowed three straight third-period goals to blow a two-goal lead, beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Thursday night.
As the old saying goes, “to be the best, you have to beat the best.” For the Boston Bruins; mission accomplished. Much has been made of the Black and Gold’s resurgence in the “Hub of Hockey,” and rightly so. The team is hotter than Hanzel in Zoolander right now, reeling off an 11-1-1 record in [...]
They say it’s better to be lucky than good. Chuck Kobasew would probably agree. The Boston forward scored the eventual deciding goal late in the 2nd period of last night’s 7-4 Bruins victory, banking a shot off Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller from behind the net and in. The goal was Kobasew’s 2nd tally of the [...]
The Boston Bruins continued their red-hot play last night, beating Northeast division rival Buffalo 3-1 at the TD Banknorth Garden. Chuck Kobasew returned to the lineup after missing 12 games with a broken leg, and looked as though he hadn’t missed a beat, notching a goal and assist in his first game back. Manny Fernandez [...]
You couldn’t expect much from a 23 year-old kid who hasn’t played an NHL hockey game in almost a year. Shortly after his last real hockey game, fans who once pronounced him the next face of the franchise hoped he would someday walk again, never mind lead a professional sports team. A little over eight months ago, watching [...]
With veterans healthy and youngsters one year wiser, the boys in black and gold are ready to build on a so-so 2007 campaign. Despite getting pummeled in Game 7 against the top seeded Canadiens, the bright spots throughout the season were far from scarce. Bruins Initially an Afterthought in 2007-08 After losing their leader early [...]
Despite suffering a fractured tibia at the hands of a Zdeno Chara slapshot that ended his season, Chuck Kobasew has signed a three-year extension with the Bruins. He was a restricted free agent. The deal is worth $7 million with an annual cap hit of $2.33 million. Kobasew earned $1.2 million in 2007-08. Bot Thoughts: [...]