Bruins power up for season
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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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A lot was on the line last night. The Bruins were coming off an 8-2 dud against Montreal. They were fighting the Islanders for seventh place in the Eastern Conference. They wanted to hit the All-Star break on an upswing, knowing that when they return from the weekend, they'll have three games in five nights - including two against conference ...
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Chuck Kobasew had a goal and an assist, leading the Boston Bruins to a sleepy 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday and a sweep of the key home-and-home weekend series.
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At this stage of the year, everything can be used as a lesson. For instance, how the Bruins respond to being without defensemen Zdeno Chara (sore hamstring) and Milan Jurcina (elbow contusion) and top-line wing Marco Sturm (chest cold).
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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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Lethargic from the start - a sure sign of defeat last season - the Bruins yesterday rallied from a 2-0 hole in the first period and went on to force overtime before falling to Toronto, 4-3, in a shootout at the Garden.
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When the Bruins filed into their dressing room after the second period, a 20-minute span during which they were outshot by Tampa Bay, 15-3, they found somebody waiting for them.
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Meet the Bruins, the movable feast of the 2006-07 NHL season. Home or away, they have become the sacrificial meal offered up on a nightly basis to be devoured by the rest of the Original 30.
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Zdeno Chara and Phil Kessel scored shootout goals for the Boston Bruins, who rallied for a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Saturday.
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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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The University of Massachusetts displayed resourcefulness in rallying past Maine, 3-2, in the opener of their best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series last night.
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Phil Kessel, Milan Lucic and Marc Savard scored early in the first period to send the Boston Bruins to a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
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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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Yesterday afternoon, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said he had four coaching prospects in mind, with one candidate leading the pack.
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BUFFALO -- The Bruins might have jump-started their playoff run last night, as they outlasted the Buffalo Sabres in a 4-3 shootout victory.
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WILMINGTON - For at least the next two games, the Bruins must survive without their No. 1 right wing.
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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 ...