Bruins cut back on work week
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When the National Hockey League announced it was locking out its players when the collective-bargaining agreement expired Sept. 15, it had an immediate impact on the league's staff, which was trimmed by roughly 50 percent.
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WILMINGTON - Approximately 13 hours after the Canadiens finished kicking in their teeth with an 8-2 thumping at the Bell Centre, the Bruins were back at Ristuccia Arena yesterday, aiming to wipe out the humiliation from their memory banks.
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We should get to see a little bit of the fix-'em-up-on-the-fly Bruins tonight with the Oilers in town. Andrew Ference, acquired in the late-night deal Saturday with Calgary that sent Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau west, will be on defense. Ex-Boston College Eagle Chuck Kobasew isn't expected to wear his new Boston sweater possibly for a few weeks, still getting ...
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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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Scouting: This was supposed to be Boston&#39;s most grueling stretch of their playoff drive. Instead, the Red Sox had won 16 of 17 going into yesterday, had cut eight games
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The Patriots might be entering their off week, but they remained busy on the personnel front.
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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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These last 10 days at TD Banknorth Garden were supposed to be a reward, the early Christmas present for surviving a grinding stretch of nine roadies in 10 games during which the Bruins posted a 6-3-1-0 record.
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PITTSBURGH - General manager Peter Chiarelli , his Bruins now officially on holiday break, said yesterday that he continues to search for a trade or two. The recent losses of winger Glen Murray (hip pointer) and defensemen Aaron Ward (fractured left foot) and Andrew Alberts (postconcussion syndrome symptoms) have only added motivation to his search.
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The Bruins failed to get liftoff as their longest road trip of the season started last night.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The consolation, if there was any in yesterday's 4-1 loss, was that the penalty-killers were 4 for 4, the fifth straight game the Bruins were perfect on that.
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Penalties? What penalties? Two days after a 5-3 loss to the New York Rangers at TD Banknorth Garden, the 11 power plays and four man-advantage goals the Bruins allowed are rubbed out of the record books.
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SAN ANTONIO -- It felt a little like returning to school after summer vacation. After all, the Celtics could not remember receiving another three-day non-All-Star break during the regular season. The players and coaches reconvened at shootaround yesterday morning and waited until game time to see what benefit, if any, the layoff produced.
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Playing was the thing yesterday. After four games in six nights, punctuated by a 3-1 loss to the Devils in front of a storm-sapped crowd of perhaps 3,500 at TD Banknorth Garden Thursday night, the Bruins held an optional skate yesterday at Ristuccia Arena. Only a handful of players, most recovering from injuries, skated. Tuukka Rask joined Tim ...
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On Dec. 30, a day after the Bruins lost their sixth straight game, 5-0 to Atlanta, Claude Julien kept one of his coaching tools in reserve when he led a standard practice at Ristuccia Arena.
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Marc Savard did everything he could to win last night's game against the Maple Leafs. Centering the Bruins' top line between Marco Sturm and Phil Kessel, and taking the lead on special teams, he spent 23 minutes 26 seconds on the ice. Only defensemen Zdeno Chara and Dennis Wideman played more for Boston.
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The Bruins took the ice yesterday for the first time in 2006-07, and unlike most days last season, they finished the day without falling behind in the Eastern Conference standings.