Bruins can't afford to drop ball on 2d-half kickoff
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Before Zdeno Chara and Phil Kessel took off for last season's All-Star Game in Dallas, their Bruins had a 22-20-1-3 record.
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NEW YORK - With 44 seconds left in his work for the afternoon, Bruins goalie Tim Thomas wheeled around in his crease and attacked the crossbar. A passerby might have thought he was trying to take a piece of Manhattan home as a souvenir.
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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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BUFFALO -- Petr Tenkrat's tripping penalty late in the third period placed the Bruins at a two-man disadvantage, but Tenkrat compensated with the lone shootout goal in a 4-3 win over Buffalo last night.
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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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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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The Bruins are in a much different place with their goaltending than they were a year ago, back when Tim Thomas (still on the job) and Hannu Toivonen (now with St. Louis) were the two huge question marks in net.
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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 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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Aaron Ward and Dennis Wideman did not have the debut they were hoping for last night. The defensemen were factors in the Bruins taking a two-goal lead against the Flyers, but were merely onlookers in Philadelphia's 4-3 victory in overtime.
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The last time the rest of the country looked in on UCLA, the Bruins played their way into the national championship game with defense. They needed a big dose of it Saturday.
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By John Bazemore, AP. The sucking noise you hear is the air being taken out of the Philadelphia Eagles&#39; passing game in the wake of the right ankle injury that will sideline big-play
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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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Boston University scored twice in the first period and held off Merrimack, 2-1, at Agganis Arena last night, but the Terriers paid a heavy price as talented sophomore goaltender John Curry was injured when he was hit behind the net late in the second period.
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The Bruins have scored only one goal in their last two games. Before last night, they were 21st in offense, averaging 2.50 goals per game. Subtracting their 8-6 win over Los Angeles, they have averaged 1.71 goals in their seven other outings.
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Yesterday's game between Harvard and Northern Michigan goes into the books as a tie, but the Crimson left Mariucci Arena a loser in their semifinal matchup in the Dodge Holiday Classic.
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WILMINGTON - For at least the next two games, the Bruins must survive without their No. 1 right wing.