A playoff berth and a Northeast Division title were wrapped up by the Bruins, as they went 3-0-1 last week.
And there were plenty of solid individual performances along the way.
A playoff berth and a Northeast Division title were wrapped up by the Bruins, as they went 3-0-1 last week.
And there were plenty of solid individual performances along the way.
Last week, a national report quoted a source saying that Bruins center Marc Savard was not only still suffering from post-concussion syndrome but also battling some memory loss.
General manager Peter Chiarelli has since confirmed that report.
BOSTON — After what has amounted to another lost regular season by Michael Ryder, the Bruins have to be hoping he’s going to find his scoring touch come the playoffs — if he’s in the lineup.
BOSTON — Obviously, there were plenty of candidates for this year’s Seventh Player Award, which the fans vote on to reward the player that goes above and beyond expectations.
BOSTON — It took until 5:44 of the second period today Bruins defenseman Shane Hnidy to put his surgically repaired shoulder to its first real test.
BOSTON –With four games remaining in the regular season, the Bruins can really relax and rest up now that they’ve wrapped up the Northeast Division title.
BOSTON — For the second time in three seasons, the Bruins are Northeast Division champions.
But only defenseman Johnny Boychuk was spotted after the clinching 3-2 win over Atlanta wearing the commemorative hat and t-shirt in Boston’s TD Garden locker room.
BOSTON — Tuukka Rask gets the start in net today for the Bruins at TD Garden.
BOSTON — Bruins head coach Claude Julien wouldn’t commit to the identities of the five other defensemen who’ll dress against Atlanta today, but he confirmed that Shane Hnidy will make his season debut.
Two things had to fall into place for the Bruins’ re-signing of Andrew Ference last March to a three-year contract extension to make any sense.
Saturday one of the least appreciated Bruins of the last several seasons and one the fans seemingly loved to hate will be on TD Garden ice for the first time as members of the Atlanta Thrashers.
Bruins head coach Claude Julien said Zdeno Chara was just given a day off today from practice. He expects the captain to be in the lineup Saturday against Atlanta.
So much of the Bruins’ battle plan for the playoffs is based on at least one of the other few Eastern Conference powers — Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh — suffering an early upset.
In that light, Boston had to like the news that came up from Flyers country.
Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara didn’t practice today at TD Garden with the rest of his teammates.
Toronto’s Jay Rosehill knows now that although Milan Lucic is a 30-goal, 30-assist man, the Bruins winger is no pushover in the physicality department.