Bruins' lesson: think outside box
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LOWELL -- The Bruins learned two valuable lessons yesterday. One was from the officials, who repeatedly taught the team what an NHL penalty was. And the other was from the New Jersey Devils, who demonstrated that if you take undisciplined penalties, they will make you pay.
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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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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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Picked-up pieces while remembering that Len Bias died 21 years ago yesterday: Peter Chiarelli underwhelms us. His first coaching hire was a dud, and now he's apparently going to sell us on Claude Julien when most Bruins fans would prefer Mike Milbury. Charlie Jacobs underwhelms us, also. There appears to be a conscious effort to purge all things Harry Sinden ...
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On the road with the Cornell basketball team, we find that a team shootaround provides a good excuse for coaches to get the players out of bed.
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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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When the New Jersey Devils strutted into TD Banknorth Garden last Saturday and proceeded to skate past, around, and through the Bruins in a 5-1 win, the visitors looked much too comfortable on enemy ice.
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Aaron Ward said he was as nervous as a rookie before last night's game at TD Banknorth Garden. The veteran Bruins defenseman hadn't played since Dec. 20, missing eight games with a broken left foot. And for his return to the lineup, the sputtering Bruins faced the Montreal Canadiens, not only a bitter rival, but a team that had beaten ...
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Patriots left guard Stephen Neal is a good listener. Neal yesterday remembered instructions from coach Bill Belichick that when a player is running after an opponent who is going toward the end zone, he should knock the ball toward the end zone because it'll be a touchback if it goes through it.
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Bruins coach Dave Lewis needs to play a confidence game with his demoralized, dispirited team. He's still looking for the right con man to pull it off.
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Imagine. You play college baseball in Boston. You spent the winter hitting in poorly lit indoor cages with poor backgrounds. Finally, you get to play outside for the first time and you step in to face . . .
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The 2006-07 Bruins got their first look at the upgraded TD Banknorth Garden yesterday, including the new mammoth high-definition scoreboard, and came away impressed.
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At times this season, Boston University has struggled to score. During a fair number of games early on, the team got subpar goaltending. And don't even ask coach Jack Parker why the Terriers have had a difficult time winning at home.
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You might think Bruin Glen Murray would like the extra quarter-inch curve on his stick.
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Playing hockey, I learned an important lesson about business and life: the puck either goes in the net or it doesnât.
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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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As the leader of the Bruins' defense corps, Zdeno Chara automatically takes junior comrades under his wing. Since he stands 6 feet 9 inches, that's not hard to do.