I’ll have to admit, looking at the schedule this weekend and the loss of Milan Lucic…again, I predicted the Bruins to lose to a rested Ottawa team. Hoping I was wrong, it appeared at the end of the first period there was some truth in my theory. The Sens scored 2 goals on 5 shots in the first period as Tim Thomas returned to action and The sold out Garden was thinking it was going to be a lonngggg night. Continue reading »
The Bruins entered today against the New Jersey Devils with a four game winning streak on the line and received some bad news as Milan Lucic will miss another month with a high ankle sprain. There is a silver lining as most of us thought it was a season ending knee injury. What expected to be a hard hitting, low scoring game lived up to the billing. The annual noon time start on black Friday makes things tough the day after Thanksgiving on the players for obvious reasons but both teams came to play. Continue reading »
With the exception of the undisclosed injury of goaltender Tim Thomas, the Bruins are finally back to full staff and have to start making some noise. The B’s survived a huge blow in October as they lost two of their major players by staying above .500 and sitting in the 8 spot of the Eastern Conference. Players like Ryder, Wheeler and Sturm picked up the slack with Savards out and Shawn Thorton and Byron Bitz picked up the enforcer roles. Patrice Bergeron leads the B’s in points with 14 and Chara is right behind him with 12.
The return of Marc Savard will help boost these numbers as the B’s have struggled in the goal department. Tonight Savard is expected to center Byron Bitz and Marco Sturm. Continue reading »
Are you kidding me? I am speechless on how a perfectly played road game comes completely unraveled in a minute 25 seconds for the Bruins. This game was billed as two teams struggling on offense with a combined 15 goals in the month of November. Tonight they combine for 11 with the Bruins on the short end of a 6-5 overtime decision. Malkin returns with 3 assists and like I said earlier, Crosby was due and he delivered a goal and 2 assists to help the lift the Pens over the B’s. Continue reading »
Bruins fans will be thrilled if the results of Tuesday nights 3-0 win repeats itself but the reality is that something has to give for the slumping Penquins. Losers of their last four, the Pens have mustered just one goal in 3 of them combined including being shut out by the Bruins just 4 days ago; in fact the Penquins have only scored 7 goals in their 5 games played in November. The Penquins are hoping for that to change as Evgeni Malkin is expected to return to the line up tonight. Just as the Pens get back Malkin they lose Chris Kunitz for the next two weeks with a lower body injury. Continue reading »
There wasn’t much to tonight’s story line when the 12th place Panthers came to town. In fact the biggest story in the morning skate was that Milan Lucic was back on the ice and eying a return against the Islanders next week.
Quickly things changed as the Panthers vs Bruins turned into a Thomas vs Tomas as the two goaltenders were stopping everything thrown at them. More often than not if you see a scoreless game after 60 minutes with a team like Florida, you think…..what a boring game. This time was a different story, the two teams had an action packed game and the Bruins were clearly the more dominant team. Shawn Thorton got into his 3rd fight in 3 games taking on Florida’s Bryan Allen and give the win to Thorton on that one. Continue reading »
