Lashoff making mark at Bruins camp
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WILMINGTON -- Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli likes Matt Lashoff's skating and ability to make the first pass out of the defensive zone, while coach Dave Lewis likes the defenseman's competitiveness.
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The Bruins re-signed right wing Brandon Bochenski to a one-year, $600,000 contract, the first one-way deal of his career.
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NEW YORK - With 44 seconds left in his work for the afternoon, Bruins goalie Tim Thomas wheeled around in his crease and attacked the crossbar. A passerby might have thought he was trying to take a piece of Manhattan home as a souvenir.
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One area in which the Bruins need serious improvement is special teams. The club, which begins the 2006-07 regular-season campaign Friday against the Panthers in Florida, is devoting a great deal of time to that in workouts this week leading up to the opener. Coach Dave Lewis said he's seriously considering left wing P.J. Axelsson at the point ...
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The Bruins are expected to make their choice for captain (hint: his first name begins with a ``Z") public next week, most likely with a day or two to go before the start of the regular season Oct. 6 in Tampa.
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The Bruins begin their longest road trip of the season tonight on Long Island, riding high after Tuesday's 3-0 shutout of the Oilers, their fourth victory in five games. The Bruins are 8 points out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 27 games remaining.
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All that's left for the Bruins is the present. The tension of the NHL's trade deadline is past, broken Tuesday when Boston acquired defensemen Aaron Ward from the Rangers and Dennis Wideman from the Blues. Both players were at Ristuccia Arena for yesterday's practice and their first chance to meet and greet new teammates.
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Well, yes, there are worse things than a lockout. In the midst of the NHL's self-imposed two-hander over the head (now day No. 66 on what appears the fast track to infinity), a couple of Bruins prospects turned their opportunity to play in Providence into their final days in the Boston organization.
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The NHL, as Marc Savard calls it, is now a special-teams league. So it's no coincidence that yesterday at Ristuccia Arena, as the hours ticked away until tomorrow's season opener against the Florida Panthers, the Bruins spent much of practice working on man-up and man-down situations.
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Nicklas Backstrom and 26 other prospects will begin competing Saturday for a spot in the Capitals' training camp, which begins Sept. 14.
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There's a lot going on in Red Sox camp, but the Yankees aren't far behind.
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Apparently Jeff Suppan&#39;s performance in Game 4 of the National League Division Series caught the attention of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and pitching coach Dave Duncan.
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When Thrashers captain Bobby Holik hooked down Milan Lucic at center ice with less than five minutes to play in a 3-3 game, the Bruins rookie didn't quit on the play.
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WILMINGTON -- There were precious few bright spots for the Bruins in 2005-06, but one of them was the play of rookie right wing Brad Boyes. Boyes finished third among NHL rookies in assists (43) and points (69) and earned NHL All-Rookie Team honors.
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He's buried back there among the wannabes in the Bruins' training camp guide, tucked inconspicuously among Mikko Lehtonen , Brad Marchand , and Adam McQuaid.
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The Bruins sent four players to this weekend's NHL All-Star festivities in Atlanta, which should tell us that things are on the upswing along Causeway Street - not to be mistaken for the Canyon of Heroes of late. Zdeno Chara, Marc Savard, and Tim Thomas suit up for the varsity today, and hard-rock rookie Milan Lucic had his twirl yesterday ...
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Tim Thomas skated over to coach Claude Julien in the middle of yesterday's Bruins practice at Ristuccia Arena, holding a small, round piece of white plastic in his hand.