In Montreal, Bruins are behind the 8-ball
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Boston against Montreal? Or was that Washington against Harlem? Last night, in the latest installment of 2007-08 laughers against the Canadiens, the Bruins bumbled through their worst showing yet.
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At age 21, Patrice Bergeron already has shown he can be an outstanding scorer. Now he has five more years to show he also can be a leader of the Boston Bruins.
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Now, isn't this interesting? The Bruins returned to work on home ice last night, their first Causeway Street game of the 2007-08 season, and from the drop of the puck they looked relevant, they looked engaged, and for reasons not too difficult to understand, the paying customers acted as if they were entertained.
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Unlike days of yore, the road to the Stanley Cup does not lead through Montreal. However, the sure road to defeat leads through the Canadiens' power play, and the Bruins last night showed up with MapQuest directions to disaster that routed them through the Habs' man-advantage.
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Before Thursday's 3-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres, the brown bear head -- the bruin was shot years ago by Johnny Bucyk -- that usually makes its home propped above Boston's dressing room door at TD Banknorth Garden was in an unfamiliar spot.
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In hindsight, a 4-2 trip is just what the desperate Bruins needed.
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Fifth-ranked Massachusetts had a one-goal lead and a five-on-three power play at the start of the third period Friday night. About 24 hours later, it had nothing to show from a weekend series with No. 8 New Hampshire.
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The Bruins' road to a postseason berth remains steep, but it would be more difficult today if two other teams also struggling for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference hadn't also squandered points last night.
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If it were a perfect world -- for hockey fans, at least -- the Boston Bruins and the rest of the teams in the National Hockey League would be readying themselves for the start of another season. Alas, millionaires from both sides are still stuck in the boring -- and costly -- days of a lockout.
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Glen Murray scored his team-leading 28th goal, and Tim Thomas made 16 of his 31 saves in the third period to lead the Boston Bruins to a 3-1 win over Montreal on Saturday.
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When, where: Tonight, 7:30, at Bell Centre, Montreal. TV, radio: Versus, WBZ (1030). Records: Boston is 24-18-2-3 (third in the Northeast Division with 53 points); Montreal is 24-15-3-5 (second in the Northeast Division with 56 points). Goals: Alex Kovalev 20, Tomas Plekanec 16, Christopher Higgins 15. Assists: Plekanec 25, Saku Koivu 25, Kovalev 23. Goaltending: Cristobal Huet (15-8-5, 2.32), Jaroslav ...
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Only nine days ago, the Bruins absorbed the thumping of the season. On Dec. 29, Atlanta laid a 5-0 smackdown on the Bruins - the second time in 2007-08 Boston has lost by five goals - that featured a misplay by starter Alex Auld that ended up in his net, a wobbler by defenseman Alexei Zhitnik that floated over the ...
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WILMINGTON - Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the Bruins' season-worst six-game skid is that their play has been the opposite of how they performed before the stumble.
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Brad Stuart scored his second goal of the third period with 1:42 remaining and the Boston Bruins held off the Montreal Canadiens 6-5 on Monday night.
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The Bruins thought they had set all the pieces on the table and they simply had to slide them together to create a playoff picture.
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With the NHL playoffs beginning to take shape on the horizon, and one of the teams blocking their view of an Eastern Conference spot in the house, the Bruins had an opportunity last night to see the stuff this team is made of.
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As exhilarating as hockey has been lately for the Bruins, who swaggered into the Bell Centre last night riding a four-game winning streak, they learned the hard way that fortunes can change and turn this sport into heartache.