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 »
One thing the B’s have lacked is shots on net and goals so when they finally found a way to get to the net , the B’s run into a hot goaltender. 192 minutes, 6 seconds,that’s long the Bruins went without scoring a goal. The Bruins were tying avoid being shutout for the third consecutive game which would only happened once in NHL history, coincidentally by the 1928-29 Boston Bruins who actually went on and won the Cup that year. 
