Chara, Bruins good on their last shot
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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 Bruins put 2 points in the win column last night, sent veteran defenseman Aaron Ward to the hospital for an overnight stay, and reapplied their tenuous fingerhold in the competitive scrum among the playoff wannabes in the Eastern Conference.
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Mark Stuart broke a tie in the second period, Phil Kessel and Matt Lashoff added insurance goals in the third, and the host Boston Bruins ended a six-game skid with a 5-2 victory against the Atlanta Thrashers on Monday.
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RALEIGH, N.C. -- In overtime, when Zdeno Chara launched the puck toward the Carolina cage, the Boston captain didn't see its eventual destination.
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There were two significant missing bodies during the Bruins' 45-minute workout on Causeway Street yesterday: P.J. Axelsson and Marc Savard . Filling in for the first-liners: defensemen-turned-forwards Zdeno Chara and Brad Stuart .
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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, where: Tonight, 7, at TD Banknorth Garden. TV, radio: NESN, WBZ (1030). Records: Toronto is 17-21-5-3 (fifth in the Northeast Division with 42 points); Boston is 22-18-2-2 (third in the Northeast Division with 48 points). Goals: Mats Sundin 20, Nik Antropov 17, Alexei Ponikarovsky 12. Assists: Sundin 30, Tomas Kaberle 22, Jason Blake 21. Goaltending: Vesa Toskala (14-13-4, 2.74 ...
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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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Aaron Ward scored 43 seconds into overtime to lift the Boston Bruins past the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Saturday. Marco Sturm, Marc Savard and Peter Schaefer also scored for the Bruins, who snapped a two-game losing skid.
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The Great One hit town yesterday and he sure was welcome. He made it feel a bit more like winter. Wayne Gretzky was a pretty fair player in his day, and his time as an executive have been equally well spent.
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The Boston Bruins sealed a 1-0 shootout victory over the New York Rangers on Saturday, their fourth straight win.
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The Boston Bruins' offensive stars came through, making their big defenseman a winner in his return to Ottawa.
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In hockey, you keep shooting the puck on net, and sometimes good things happen. Harvard did that last night at Bright Center and earned a 3-1 victory over 10th-ranked Vermont.
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At 14:50 of the third period, when his team was already in a 3-0 ditch, Shawn Thornton scored the Bruins' first goal.
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TORONTO (CP) - The NHL season isn&#39;t dead yet, but it is on its last legs. The cautious optimism accompanied by last week&#39;s offer by the NHL Players&#39; Association was replaced by doom and gloom Tuesday as both
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When, where: Tonight, 7, at Air Canada Centre, Toronto. TV, radio: NESN, WBZ (1030). Records: Boston is 29-23-2-3; Toronto is 23-27-6-3. Goals: Mats Sundin 24, Nik Antropov 19, Alexei Ponikarovsky 14. Assists: Sundin 35, Tomas Kaberle 29, Jason Blake 25. Goaltending: Vesa Toskala (20-18-5, 2.68 GAA), Andrew Raycroft (2-8-4, 4.07). Head to head: This is the fifth of eight meetings. ...
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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.