Krejci

BOSTON — Boston Bruins center David Krejci was announced as the winner of the 2009 NESN Seventh Player Award winner. The award goes to the player who went above and beyond the call of duty and exceeded the expectations of Bruins fans. Voting was done on NESN.com.

I’ll have more on Krejci after the Bruins’ game with Ottawa.

Tim Thomas gets the start in goal tonight.

Here are the Boston forward lines and D pairs as per warm-ups:

Axelsson-Savard-Wheeler
Recchi-Bergeron-Kobasew
Lucic-Krejci-Ryder
Hunwick-Yelle-Bitz

Chara-Ward
Ference-Wideman
Stuart-Hnidy

Shane Hnidy gets the nod tonight after nine straight healthy scratches. Steve Montador is a healthy scratch.

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