Bruins made to pay for recent poor play
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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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After Hannu Toivonen manned the crease for 40 minutes of Saturday night's 5-1 loss to the Devils, Bruins coach Dave Lewis said he had earned the right to be in a second game.
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MONTREAL -- The Bruins beat the Canadiens last night, 3-1, before 19,591 at the Bell Centre, but they received a huge scare in the first period when $37.5 million strongman Zdeno Chara was injured while blocking a Sheldon Souray slap shot.
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Hockey toughness comes in many forms, nearly all of which the 2006-07 Bruins found to be in short supply.
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The consolation, if any, from last night's 3-1 setback against the Buffalo Sabres was that the loss didn't sting as much as the back-to-back stink bombs the Bruins touched off in their two previous matches.
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If there was one thing the Bruins could be credited with in yesterday's 5-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, it was consistency.
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With two minutes remaining in regulation last night, the Bruins trailed by one goal and were approaching the point when goalie Tim Thomas would be pulled for an extra attacker.
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Bruins captain Joe Thornton was less than thrilled when he read comments by team owner Jeremy Jacobs in this space last Sunday in which Jacobs said he thought one of the reasons for the sport's malaise is that the top players don't give 100 percent every game.
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The Atlanta Thrashers, who hurt the Bruins' playoff chances with a 3-2 victory at TD Banknorth Garden last Monday, gave Boston a lift yesterday.
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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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The dynamic 24 percent payroll rollback proposed by the NHL Players Association last week was simply another gambit in the NHL&#39;s labor dispute.
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As Peter Chiarelli conducts his hunt for the 28th coach of the Bruins, the general manager will be pitching a battered product that demands an immediate fix.
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The Bruins expected they'd be without one-third of their No. 1 line. But now they're missing two of their top-line forwards, without much hope of either returning in the near future.
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An arbitrator awarded Boston Bruins captain Joe Thornton $6.75 million for 2004-05, increasing his salary from last season&#39;s $5.5 million but not allowing him to break the arbitration record of $7 million.
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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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There was not a lot happening until the shootout. The Bruins and New York Islanders wandered across the TD Banknorth Garden ice last night, looking perhaps for a signpost or a grinning Cheshire cat to point the way. Certainly no one on the ice was breaking a path. After regulation and five minutes of overtime, the teams' erratic efforts had ...
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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.