Bruins fight way through
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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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No. 1 UCLA survived its first serious challenge of the season with solid defense and the late scoring touch of Arron Afflalo.
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A team fighting for its life -- in more ways than one -- plays on.
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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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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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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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UCLA put together two strong halves and avoided the kind of collapse that cost the fifth-ranked Bruins in their previous game.
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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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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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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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The Boston Bruins found an effective way to end their lengthy losing streak by facing a team that's stuck in a similar slump.
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When, where: Tonight, 7:30, at Bell Centre, Montreal. TV, radio: Versus, WBZ (1030). Records: Boston is 24-18-2-3 (third in the Northeast Division with 53 points); Montreal is 24-15-3-5 (second in the Northeast Division with 56 points). Goals: Alex Kovalev 20, Tomas Plekanec 16, Christopher Higgins 15. Assists: Plekanec 25, Saku Koivu 25, Kovalev 23. Goaltending: Cristobal Huet (15-8-5, 2.32), Jaroslav ...
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The road to the playoffs runs through Causeway Street, and the Bruins last night fell into a couple of monster potholes inside their home rink that they'll have to learn to avoid in the final seven weeks of the regular season.
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Despite the brutality of Patrice Bergeron's first-period injury, both the Bruins and Flyers still had a game to play yesterday before 14,956 fans at TD Banknorth Garden.
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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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Tom Kostopoulos scored 14 seconds into the game and Maxim Lapierre got Montreal's fourth goal of the opening period with 3 seconds remaining, sending the Canadiens on to a 8-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.
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This was a tough one to let get away. With a 1-0 lead, earned the hard way with a ton of forechecking, and a nifty give-and-go score collected by Chuck Kobasew, the Bruins got to the second period full of possibilities against the NHL's top team, the Detroit Red Wings.