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 »
Nov 272009
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 »
Nov 102009
The whole nation will see the B’s vs Pens game at the Garden tonight as Versus, TSN and the NHL network will all be broadcasting the game. Both teams are banged up with key injuries and this is the last stop of a long road trip for the Pens.
The Bruins will get David Krejic back in the lineup tonight after he missed 2 games with the H1N1 virus. Michael Ryder who missed practice on Monday with flu like symptoms will be in the lineup tonight as well. Although Tuukka Rask has been solid, look for Tim Thomas tonight as he will try to end his 0-3-1 run in his last 4 games. No fault to Thomas as he has only allowed 6 goals in that span. Continue reading »
We knew sooner or later the Bruins would break up the lose one , win one pattern but losing two and a row wasn’t what any Boston fan was hoping for. Not only did the Bruins lose two in a row but got shut out both times. Continue reading »
Tuukka Rask got the nod from coach Julien late this morning to start in nets for the Halloween matinee at the Garden against the Edmonton Oilers. Based on the Bruins history this season, Stevie Wonder could of gotten the nod in net as today would be a scheduled win in theory of course with this win one ,lose one season so far.
The Bruins peppered veteran goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin in the closing seconds of the second period andVladimir Sabotka popped what would of been his first goal of the season but it was just after the buzzer sounded to keep the game scoreless after two. Blake Wheeler finally breaks the 0-0 tie with his fourth goal of the season from Sabotka , just under 3 minutes into the final period. Wheeler then returned the favor to Sabotka as this time he did score his first goal of the season.
Rookie Bruins net minder Rask plays a solid 60 minutes to earn his 2nd career shut out this afternoon winning 2-0. This was also a milestone for Coach Julien as this was his 100th win behind the Bruins bench.
The up and down Bruins travel to MSG tomorrow to face conference rival, the New York Rangers. Lets hope the somewhat predictable B’s break this foolish .500 pattern and put a couple together this weekend.
