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The Bruins took their first stride into the NHL’s stretch drive last night, and they stumbled with their initial steps. But after two periods of standing around like Washington tourists - perhaps it was their recent visit to Pennsylvania Avenue? - they turned a better third-period effort and a fluke goal into a 4-3 win over the Senators at TD Garden.
Brad Marchand knocked home his 18th goal of the season early in the third period last night, potting the 3-3 equalizer.
Bruins coach Claude Julien hopped aboard a mid-morning flight from Ottawa yesterday to be at TD Garden for the team’s afternoon practice.
Yesterday, seven months after their life-changing title, the Bruins capped their 2011-12 run by celebrating last season’s achievements at the White House with President Obama.
With a flick of his wrists, ex-Bruin Dennis Wideman sailed a puck from deep in his zone into the middle of an empty Boston net, capping a 5-3 Washington win last night before 18,506 at the Verizon Center.
The hope is that by Tuesday, when the Bruins next play, Nathan Horton will be well enough to return to the lineup. For Horton and the Bruins, the All-Star break is taking place at the right time.
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby practiced Monday but said he is no closer to returning from a concussion and neck injury that have sidelined him for most of the season.
Carey Price made 23 saves for his third shutout of the season, Tomas Plekanec had a goal and an assist and the Montreal Canadiens ended a three-game losing streak with a 3-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.
Artem Anisimov had a goal and two assists, Henrik Lundqvist made 21 saves and the New York Rangers continued their recent success against the Philadelphia Flyers with a 5-2 fight-filled victory on Sunday.
Ilya Kovalchuk had a goal and two assists, and the New Jersey Devils extended their winning streak to four with a 5-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.
Boston 2 0 2--4 Washington 0 0 1--1 First Period--1, Boston, Lucic 19 (Peverley), 10:45. 2, Boston, Marchand 19 (Bergeron, McQuaid), 18:38. Second Period--None. Third Period--3, Boston, Seguin 20 (Marchand, Bergeron), 6:38. 4, Washington, Johansson 11 (Perreault, Ward), 12:04. 5, Boston, Peverley 9 (Kelly, Chara), 19:19 (en). Shots on Goal--Boston 12-9-9--30. Washington 11-10-15--36. Goalies--Boston, Thomas. Washington, Vokoun. A--18,506 (18,398). T--2:30.
Boston 2 0 2--4 Washington 0 0 1--1 First Period--1, Boston, Lucic 19 (Peverley), 10:45. 2, Boston, Marchand 19 (Bergeron, McQuaid), 18:38. Penalties--McQuaid, Bos, major (fighting), 18:46 Hendricks, Was, served by Perreault, minor-major (roughing, fighting), 18:46. Second Period--None. Penalties--Semin, Was (hooking), 7:06 Bergeron, Bos (interference), 18:20. Third Period--3, Boston, Seguin 20 (Marchand, Bergeron), 6:38. 4, Washington, Johansson 11 (Perreault, Ward), ...
Tim Thomas' return to the nation's capital was less political and more successful, with the goaltender making 35 saves Sunday in the Boston Bruins' 4-1 win over the Washington Capitals .
Halfway through yesterday’s first period against the Capitals, Milan Lucic fired up the pistons, charged over the blue line, and made a straight line toward the net. Naturally, he was rewarded with a Rich Peverley dish, which he converted into his 19th goal.
In yesterday’s 4-1 win over the Capitals, the Bruins’ Tyler Seguin scored his 20th goal of the season when he redirected a Brad Marchand feed past Tomas Vokoun at 6:38 of the third period.
At 6:45 of yesterday’s third period, the Bruins finally had some hope. Joe Corvo had beaten the previously perfect Marc-Andre Fleury with a shot from the point, cutting Pittsburgh’s lead to 2-1.
What appeared to be the most violent hit of yesterday’s game produced the most harmless result.
The Bruins were marginally better yesterday, but in a sport in which the margin between winning and losing is inherently thin, they were squeezed out again, 2-1, by the Penguins on Causeway Street.
When everything is going well for the Bruins, as it was when they went 21-3-1 in November and December, Adam McQuaid likes to slip on his headphones and listen to some slow, soft country music.
OTTAWA - On Feb. 25, when Zdeno Chara and the Bruins next play at Scotiabank Place, there will be boos for the Boston captain. It is the chorus Chara has grown used to hearing, not only at the rink he once called home but in arenas around the league.
OTTAWA - Even before the Bruins’ Tyler Seguin became an NHLer, he was Phil Kessel’s foil. Yesterday, they were linemates.
It’s no surprise, then, that the NHL board of governors spent part of yesterday’s meeting at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier discussing concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the disease which might have played a part in Derek Boogaard’s spiraling condition.
GATINEAU, Quebec - In the middle of every winter, save for the Olympic years, the NHL pauses for the All-Star Game. It is the league’s regular exercise of packaging and presenting a product that can’t overcome its fatal flaw: that the game itself bears little resemblance to the intense regular-season or playoff product.
At their current pace, the Hurricanes will finish 2011-12 with 72 points, say their goodbyes after Game No. 82, and sprint for the nearest golf course. Just imagine how their fortunes would turn if they could play the Bruins for 82 games instead of four.
The Bruins will be in a similar spot prior to the Feb. 27 trade deadline. They aren’t necessarily looking for a puck-moving defenseman. But they’d like to add a left-shot D-man without giving up a roster player in return.
Nothing, not even their own nondescript, watered-down, and oft-listless play of late, will keep the Bruins from making the playoffs. They banked a lot of gold bullion over the course of 10 weeks, beginning at the start of December, and even their recent .500 ways will be enough to buy them one of eight playoff seeds in the East.
The puck is going in the net for Brandon Bochenski, and that alone makes life good. The former Bruin, hustled into Boston to help kick-start a sputtering offense during Dave Lewis’s one year behind the bench, is now finishing his second season for the Astana Barys in Kazakhstan and recently played in the Kontinental Hockey League’s all-star game.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For too long, hockey has been a punch line in Boston.
They won it for every New England mom and dad who ever woke up to drive kids to the rink at 6 a.m. and drank hot chocolate in cold arenas.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — He was never the Golden Boy. You kidding? He didn’t start a game in the NHL until he was 28 and he didn’t become anyone’s regular goalie until he was 31. Until very recently, he would have been recognized on the street in Finland more readily than in downtown Boston.
The Bruins left here with the Stanley Cup last night, their first in 39 years, each of them shaking it emphatically over their heads, with purpose and panache, amid the customary bedlam that cascades over the ice on the NHL’s championship night.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Forget the 1-2 punch of the Sedin brothers; how about the Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand combination?
There will be one more flight west. One more night in a Vancouver hotel. One more game.
So now it’s one game for the Stanley Cup; one game to define a season, a franchise, and — some would say — the very honor of the sport.
You really didn’t think this was going to end any other way did you? This Stanley Cup Final is going the full Phil Esposito, a glorious No. 7.
There is an opposite-ends-of-the earth feel to Vancouver and Boston, in terms of distance, topography, culture, scenery. Both are wonderful cities, beautiful in their own ways, vibrant, essential to the politics and economies of their respective countries.
By any standard, their performance has been extraordinary. The defensive corps in front of goaltender Tim Thomas has held Vancouver’s group of gunners to six goals in five games and only one on Causeway Street. And yet the Bruins were facing two elimination contests going into last night’s Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden. What else ...
Compared to the US greenback, the Canadian dollar is the strongest it has been in years. Just ask the Bruins. They’ve played three times here in the last 10 days, only to find their game has little currency once beyond the cozy confines of the Causeway Street Vault.
There’ll be no Causeway Street hockey celebration Monday night. You can put that 39-year-old champagne bottle back on the shelf for a couple of days.
One of these days people will realize this simple fact: There is absolutely no such thing as game-to-game “momentum’’ in the world of sports.
It would be understandable if the Canucks — in a break from the soccer that clogged hallways before last night’s Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Arena — switched to darts, with a specific Bruin’s face receiving a place of honor on the board. Because even if Brad Marchand demurs, there is a ...
It came down to one goal, as they all have here. For the third time at Rogers Arena, the Bruins and Canucks were separated by a single goal in the Stanley Cup Final. And, for the third time, the winning team was the Canucks.
Perhaps it was out of a sense of obligation — after all, he hadn’t landed a hit all night, unlike in Game 3 — that Tim Thomas stepped out of his crease, reached back with his Reebok battle ax, and tagged Alex Burrows on the back of the leg.
Seen a black bear wandering in your neighborhood? Anything’s possible in this wacky New England spring of 2011 and this might be the Year of the Bruin.
Let’s hope the Vancouver Canucks took advantage of this excellent opportunity they’ve just had to visit our sun-splashed fair city.
As lost as the Canucks looked last night, the Bruins looked found. For all that the Canucks refused to push back, lacked in pluck and strut, the Bruins pushed and poked and pounded and scored.
The one who already has his name engraved on Lord Stanley’s mug had been in street clothes for seven straight games. The other two, who answer to Piesy and Soupy, had been collecting random minutes that rarely added up to more than half a dozen.
The way its caretakers view it, the spoked-B represents a philosophy as much as a team. For as long as the organization has been in existence, the Bruins have been about hard work, emotion, pride, and teamwork.
Frustration was building. The Bruins had suffered a couple of walkoff losses in Vancouver. The Canucks were chewing on Bruin paws and literally laughing in the faces of men wearing spoked-B sweaters.
On the 11th period, they exploded. Having scored in only two of the previous 10 periods, the Bruins erupted for four goals in a span of 15:36 of last night’s second period, and they liked the feeling so much they added four more before the annihilation of the Vancouver Canucks was complete.
Although it’s far too early to tell — in fact, it’s totally guesswork at this point — Aaron Rome’s ugly cheap shot that sent Nathan Horton out of the Garden last night on a stretcher possibly snatched the Stanley Cup out of the Vancouver Canucks’ grasp and handed it to the Bruins.
Nothing like a shorthanded goal to put the jump back into a team, and Brad Marchand scored a beauty last night at TD Garden, giving the Bruins a three-goal lead on their way to an 8-1 demolition of the Canucks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Overtime kicked off with just what the Bruins wanted: a faceoff win for Patrice Bergeron against Henrik Sedin. Bergeron pulled the puck back to Andrew Ference. Then Bergeron and linemates Brad Marchand and Mark Recchi revved up their motors for the first rush of overtime.
They can’t get back to the Garden fast enough. They need open lanes on the Tobin and Zakim. They need their loyalists in spoked-B sweaters and Rene Rancourt’s double fist-pump after the anthem.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Don’t look to Tim Thomas for an answer. “I don’t know where he came from,’’ sighed the Bruins goaltender. “I don’t know if he won the faceoff, or we won the faceoff.’’
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — If you own one of the 2 million to 3 million busted TVs in New England this morning — one of those HD wide-screen numbers with your work boot stuck smack dab in the middle of the screen — chances are the last two words you screamed at the end of last night’s Stanley Cup Final ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Canucks’ hands were in the air in celebration seemingly before the puck dropped onto the ice. It had taken just 11 seconds — a blink, a moment — for the Bruins to go from winning the overtime faceoff to losing the game, going down two games to the Canucks in the Stanley Cup Final. It ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — At 11:35 of last night’s second period, when the Bruins scored their first power-play goal of the Stanley Cup Final, Mark Recchi delivered some much-needed vindication for his coaching staff.
Last night’s game appeared destined for overtime. Less than 20 seconds remained in regulation. Neither team had scored a goal. The power plays had gone a total of 0 for 12. The goalies were putting on a puck-stopping clinic.
Well, yes, it did take a while to get the job done, but the Vancouver Canucks seemed to think the outcome was quite logical.
They are 4,029 kilometers from home, taking on an entire country, attempting to do something they have not done since the Nixon administration.
Johnny Boychuk moved up from his right defensive spot, tried to make a play with trouble brewing up faster than a witch’s cauldron in a microwave, and in roughly the count of three — one-Mississippi-pass, two-Mississippi-pass, three-Mississippi-shot — Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals ended upside-down for the Bruins.
It looked as if Tim Thomas would extend his playoff shutout streak to an impressive six periods, when the unthinkable happened.
The Canucks had entered the Stanley Cup finals with a sparkling 28.3 percent success rate on the power play in the playoffs. Last night, they went on the man-advantage six times. Given their previous success, the Canucks should have buried at least one of their chances.
