Has everyone caught their breath yet? In what has seemed to be an offseason longer than the last NHL lockout, Bruins fans everywhere are chomping at the bit for October to arrive to see the Big Bad Bruins back on Garden ice so we can officially put to rest a 2013-2014 season that held so…
Today former NHL forward Miroslav Satan announced his retirement from the game of hockey at age 39 after playing in his final game for team Slovakia at the World Championship Tournament in Belarus. He was a Stanley Cup champion and a two-time all-star during his NHL career. “I hardly believe it, but I am not going…
Again. The 34th rendition of a storied rivalry’s playoff battle starts tonight in Boston. Michel Therrien’s Montreal Canadiens visit TD Garden in order to steal a home game from Claude Julien’s President Trophy-winning Boston Bruins, hoping to seize the advantage early in their second round playoff matchup. Let’s get some pesky stats out of the way. The Bruins lost…
After an exciting first round of playoff hockey, all eyes are now on what will happen in the second round, where the winner will advance to the conference finals. In anticipation of the second round, we have assembled a panel of a few Power of the Puck writers to share our predictions for each series.…
If you’re following these two teams leading up to Game One of their Atlantic Division Semifinal playoff series, you’ve heard countless times that it’s the first time the Original Six franchises have met in the playoffs since 1957. You’ve also heard some grumbling about the long wait as the matchup was rightfully identified by the…
The Olympic break in the NHL 2013-14 season is upon the fans. And while there will be hockey during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the fans will have some choices to make. Before getting into that though, there was a lot of comments made by a certain NBCSN intermission commentator about the allegiance…
With just under five minutes left in the third period of Friday night’s first game of a home-and-home against the Ottawa Senators, Dennis Seidenberg went down behind the Boston Bruins net after becoming entangled with the Senators Cory Conacher. It was clear that something was wrong as he made his way off the ice and went straight down…
Yesterday during his question and answer time with the media, Boston Bruins head coach Claude Julien stated that there was a good chance that defenseman Adam McQuaid would be back in the game as the team plays the Nashville Predators on Monday, December 23, before the team goes into the Christmas three-day break. As was posted by the official Bruins twitter…
In what is becoming almost a daily announcement, the Boston Bruins have announced the recall of Craig Cunningham from Providence. And this probably is directly related to the fact that head coach Claude Julien confirmed this morning that Daniel Paille was out with concussion-like symptoms. Before his recall, Cunningham had played in 27 games this season for theProvidence Bruins,…
During the Boston Bruins last game of their four-game road trip in Canada, the team found themselves in Vancouver, British Columbia facing their 2011 Stanley Cup Finals foe – the Vancouver Canucks. There is no love for the Bruins among the Canucks faithful; of this there is no doubt. During the tilt, when a bizarre slap shot from…
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