BOSTON — Here are some quick-hit bits of news from the Boston Bruins’ break-up day at TD Banknorth Garden.
•Here are your surgeries that are pending: David Krejci (hip), Phil Kessel (labrum/rotator cuff) and Andrew Ference (groin/hernia). Krejci and Kessel figure to need four to six months to recover.
•Mark Recchi had surgery to remove a kidney stone the night before Game 7. He also played through a fractured rib. Linemate Chuck Kobasew also had broken ribs.
•Defenseman Matt Hunwick was hoping to play by this coming weekend.
•Recchi, Steve Montador and Shane Hnidy, who are all headed to free agency, say they’d all like to be back in Boston.
I’ll have expanded coverage of this as soon as Peter Chiarelli and Claude Julien are done with their media briefing. And I’ll be blogging all day and all summer.
But, but… someone wrote that the Bruins lacked heart and intensity, that they were “awful” and didn’t want to pay the price…
Phil Kessel
Stats: 7 GP, 2-3-5, plus-5
Grade: B-minus
As exciting as his two goals in Game 5 were, the Bruins really needed him to bring his best more and he let them down. As much a culprit as the other forwards as far as not paying the price or winning puck fights.
David Krejci
Stats: 7 GP, 0-3-3, even plus/minus
Grade: C-minus
At time he looked overwhelmed by the intensity of the second round, the center was awful in Game 3 and 4, when the series got away from the Bruins. When he finally started to generate some chances, he couldn’t cash in.