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Last night, whenever the puck was on Patrice Bergeron's stick, the Boston center lifted his head to see limitless options.
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The thing that tempered the excitement of the Bruins' 6-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings Sunday was the win itself.
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Alex Auld's new black leg pads may squeak and groan while he's breaking them in, but the Bruins' newest goalie doesn't mind the noise a bit.
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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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In practically every fashion, the manner in which the New Jersey Devils play is the style that coach Dave Lewis would like to meld into the Bruins.
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In goal, the Bruins upgraded by acquiring Manny Fernandez . Up front, they acquired some jam and touch in Peter Schaefer and a wide-shouldered presence in Shawn Thornton .
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Marco Sturm scored a short-handed goal with 0.6 seconds left in the first period and the Bruins beat the Devils, 4-3, on Saturday night.
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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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The Bruins need to find ways to score, as do the New Jersey Devils, which stands to make their matchup tonight on Causeway Street an all-world, 60-minute defensive grinder.
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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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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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By acquiring Manny Fernandez , the Bruins' assumption was that an upgrade in the goaltending tandem would be the first step in turning last season's 3.48 goals allowed per game into a more respectable number.
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Earlier this month, during a grinding road swing, the Bruins were winning. But they were also cheating.
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In the new NHL, no lead is safe. Truth be told, even in the old NHL, the 1-0 lead the Bruins were nursing in the second period last night wouldn't have offered much comfort.
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Victories have their own beauty, no matter how ugly they may be crafted. "We didn't get the bounces we wanted, but two points are two points," mused Jeremy Reich, after his first NHL goal Saturday night helped nudge the Bruins along to their 2-0 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. "We won't argue with it."
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Brad Stuart scores his second goal of the third period with 1:42 remaining and the Boston Bruins hold off the Montreal Canadiens, 6-5, on Monday night.
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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.