Bruins express dismay
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Right up until 1 p.m. yesterday, when National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman stepped to the microphone in a function room at a Manhattan hotel, Bruins president Harry Sinden was in the dark about whether the 2004-05 season was going to be salvaged or canceled.
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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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They have a little confidence, and that alone is an improvement for the Bruins. For slightly over a month now, they've played like a team intent on making the playoffs, going 10-4-1 (.700), and outscoring their opponents, 47-41, over the last 15 games.
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It can be no comfort to the Ottawa Senators, now down, 2-0, in the Stanley Cup finals, that the Anaheim Ducks have turned the rink into a minefield.
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Teemu Selanne sensed a lack of urgency in his Anaheim Ducks teammates. Then they got frustrated. And then they rallied.
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Claude Julien wants the Boston Bruins to play more aggressively. Maybe that will make his bosses less aggressive in changing coaches.
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The Rangers continued their January funk on Sunday, losing a second straight game to Boston despite holding the Bruins to a handful of scoring chances.
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When Ray Whitney got hot, the Bruins got burned. The Carolina left wing popped in three consecutive goals in 1 minute 40 seconds of the second period last night to take the life out of a Bruins team scrambling to stay with the Hurricanes, and stay in the playoff picture.
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Dave Lewis had no explanation. The first-year Bruins coach didn't know why, despite an avalanche of a first period that saw the Montreal Canadiens send 14 shots -- most of them grade-A opportunities -- on Tim Thomas, Lewis's team held a one-goal lead.
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Only nine days ago, the Bruins absorbed the thumping of the season. On Dec. 29, Atlanta laid a 5-0 smackdown on the Bruins - the second time in 2007-08 Boston has lost by five goals - that featured a misplay by starter Alex Auld that ended up in his net, a wobbler by defenseman Alexei Zhitnik that floated over the ...
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WILMINGTON -- The Bruins have been in an uphill struggle for most of the season, but with 13 games to play, they remain optimistic about their playoff chances.
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Dave Lewis is out as the Boston Bruins' coach after just one season. General manager Peter Chiarelli announced Friday that Lewis will be relieved as head coach and reassigned to another position in the organization.
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Instead of preparing to face the Avalanche tonight in Colorado in their second game of the season, the Bruins remain spread over the four corners of the world, with no end in sight to the labor strife between owners and players. Defenseman Hal Gill, who is the union player representative for Boston, would be on the sidelines if the season ...
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The refrain that Dave Lewis often repeated, when asked how he preferred the 2006-07 Bruins to perform, was that he wanted a team that was hard to play against.
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Before last night's 2-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, Bruins coach Dave Lewis got a surprise.
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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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For 20 minutes, it was much of the same garbage that tainted the Bruins' last six losses.