Coming off a loss in their last game on New Year’s Eve in Dallas, the Bruins started tonight’s game in New Jersey by handing the Devils a power play on an unforced Johnny Boychuk delay-of-game penalty and then surrendering a man-advantage goal.
And that, folks, is what qualifies as a Bruins slump these days.
Boston scored the game’s next six goals en route to a 6-1 win, as 11 different players recorded a point. Patrice Bergeron scored two goals, Milan Lucic recorded three assists and Dennis Seidenberg and David Krejci also enjoyed two-point nights.
Goaltender Tim Thomas snapped his losing streak at one with 30 saves.
The Bruins have now won eight of their last nine and haven’t lost consecutive games since just before their recent seven-game winning streak. With a 25-10-1 record, the Bruins have proven that as long as the month isn’t October, they’re a consistent steamroller that can barely be slowed for more than a game at a time.
Boston will be back home Thursday night to face Calgary in a preliminary bout before the Stanley Cup Final rematch Saturday at the TD Garden against Vancouver.
Deb,
To answer your question, calling two guys that could probably thrash all of these keyboard warriors ‘sisters’ is totally acceptable:)
Ha! I either missed that comment by Deb earlier, or it had to get approved by MK before it posted. Either way, do ya think it’s safe to assume that “Deb” might be the mother of the kid that Mad Mike “assaulted”? ;-D
The Bruins last night impressed me a lot with that win. It is another example of how their passing game has improved so dramatically. Countless times the Bruins would get possession of the puck and use two or three quick passes to get the puck to the open player and start moving east west. Putting up Six goals on NJ, with Brodeaur in net is impressive. This team is just rolling right now.
Deb, get over it, was done by Mike Milbury in the playoffs, sports commentator. The guy calls out countless players, but never considers his own actions. Classic New Englander. However, the Sedin’s deserved being called sisters because they were playing like chicks. If they had mustered a single pair of balls between either of two of them, they could have won the cup with the talent Vancouver had on that team. They let little Marchand face wash them and rabbit punch them and did nothing, well deserved comment even though Milbury is kinda a db.
BigJim, Ima hafta go check the replay to see Marchand’s play, but all I know is that you shouldn’t stand in @ the blue line during the PK, regardless. Maybe I missed something, but Quaider’s “hockey sense” should have him thinking more defensively in that situation, IMO.
Big Jim, Check this out. http://www.seguinfamilyhistory.com/guillaum.html
The internet is a wonderful thing. Regardless, even my Canadian pronunciation of it would make a true French speaker cringe so Say-gun it is. If you go on the Bruins website some players have the pronunciation next to their name. However Seguin and Marchand do not.
PCL, that goal was not on mcquaid that was a TERRIBLE play by marchand. if seguin did that matt would have devoted an entire column to bashing him for it.
Juan Seguin and his amigos at the alamo would not appreciate your calling them french patrick.
Just read jersey newspaper parise said they skate four lines that can score no other team in the league has that. Boy we are getting into the heads of other teams. That shot of Lou lamarello in his box last night I think if he had enough energy he would have tried jumping.
New Englanders don’t pronounce french names…period. There’s tons of French blood in new England but the heritage has been lost. The wacky English style pronunciation has been in place for hundreds of years so it that’s how Seguin likes it, then I guess it’s how it should be.
McGuire takes his names pretty seriously. He’ll pronounce a French name in French and will work on his Finnish, Swedish, Russian pronunciation. He should just realize he’s on an American telecast and just say Bergerawn, Sequin (or whatever) etc etc.
Seguin is from Brampton Ontario though. I wonder how he pronounced it? There are very few actual French in that part of Ontario. Has the kid ever addressed this?
My frustration at Quaider standing in at the blueline during the PK, leading up to NJ’s PP and only goal, was quickly subsided by this team’s overall effort and domination last night.
Great to see a lot of shots getting through from the points as well, even with the entire Devil’s team collapsed around the nets. I don’t know how they found the lanes, but they did, and when they didn’t there was Black and Gold there to pick up the deflections/blocks.
Matt,
The NHL home page has Horton as last night’s 3rd star, scoring 2 G’s????
Pierre and McT….Marchand and Seguin are both french names and so McGuire’s pronunciation is understandable…technically they are saying their own names incorrectly. When I read your post Pierre my first thought was you were implying Seguin’s name was pronounced Sobama…And as an Irishman don’t get me started on how Reagan was mispronouncing his own name as well…but I guess I am being unreasonable…or is it unRAYsonable….I am of course joking…It’s their names and they can pronounce them how they like. Hell of a game last night. I am sure you are all like me and counting the hours until puck drop Saturday…
To that point, we can see Claude is no Bruce Bodreau!
I’m a little worried about motivation level tonight, since this seems like a trap game with a big win last night and a big game on Saturday.
Unfortunately Doc Emerick picked up Pierre’s pronunciation of Marchand as well. But if that is my only complaint I am more than happy. The whole team was flying tonight. Seemed especially like Seguin had even more zip than usual. I was surprised he didn’t score as well.
BTW, I thought that nhl36 show with Bergeron was pretty good. I really liked the inside view to the meetings, and the extra audio during the Coyotes game.
Now if Pierre could just pronounce Seguin’s name.
Like the president Reagan with an ‘S’.
Get it right!
It was awesome to see, not only the dominance on the scoreboard, but how I dont remember seeing one battle lost in the dirty areas of the ice. And the sustained pressure in the offensive zone on more than one shift was incredible. It was a beautiful thing.
Good god that was domination. Talk about ALL players playing a full sixty min game Claude keep the tape of this one in the vault. To see Pierre (“between the glass) have to except the greatness of this team is priceless. Lets douse the Flames tonight boys.
Is calling the Sedins “sisters” supported by the Bruins? Kinda unprofessional, no?