DiPietro
BOSTON — Interim New York Islanders head coach Jack Capuano seems like an affable enough guy, and no one could blame him for worrying little about stats with the troubles he’s trying to rectify with the moribund franchise he’s been asked to save the rest of this season.
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With Buffalo defenseman Tyler Myers in town for tonight’s game against the Bruins at TD Garden (7:30 p.m. puck drop), there’s no better time to take a quick look at the Calder Trophy race.
Myers, of course, won last year’s award as the top rookie in the NHL.
Guerin
Bill Guerin’s stint with his hometown Bruins lasted all of 142 games over two seasons.
But they were a couple pretty impressive seasons in his illustrious career.
The Bruins must avoid Don Cherry's biggest gaffe.
Former Bruins coach and the king of all Canadian media Don Cherry has never hid his love of Marc Savard over the years.
Tonight on “Coach’s Corner” on Hockey Night in Canada, “Grapes” wore his tie decorated with his old terrier Blue on it in “honor of Savard coming back” to the Bruins this week for the first time all season.
Gagne
The Bruins exacted a slight measure of revenge for last spring’s playoffs by prevailing in Philadelphia last night. But, of course, this season’s Flyers team — while off to a great start — is lacking one of the biggest ingredients from last season’s shocking comeback.
Thompson
BOSTON — Everyone that watched him develop in the Bruins organization knew that Nate Thompson would someday establish himself as, at worst, a solid fourth-line, two-way center.
Well, he has finally blossomed with Tampa Bay under first-year head coach Guy Boucher.
What else is there to do in the shower on a day the team’s playing in Philadelphia and I’m blogging from home?
Here’s my Hockey Chanukah Song sung to the tune of Adam Sandler’s marvelous bit of music:
Here’s one you probably didn’t expect to read this morning.
In his Colorado debut last night after being traded by the Bruins, defenseman Matt Hunwick tied for the team lead in hits.
Byfuglien
At 6-foot-5, 265-pounds, Dustin Byfuglien isn’t your father’s, or even your nephew’s, puck-moving defenseman.
The Bruins will find that out firsthand tonight.
Burns
You can hate the Montreal Canadiens all you want Bruins fans, but you cannot deny that when it comes to honoring the franchise’s history and producing ceremonial moments, the Bell Centre crew does it best.
Burns
The hockey world tonight mourns the loss of three-time Jack Adams Trophy winner Pat Burns, who passed away after a long fight with cancer.
He was just 58.
NHL Senior Executive VP of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell was interviewed on NHL Overtime on VS over the phone last night.
Bettman
Commissioner Gary Bettman did his best today to try to extinguish the firestorm created by the Colin Campbell emails from the Dean Warren lawsuit against the NHL.
Wideman
Given every opportunity to tell the Bruins fans to go stick it and maybe even ask for a trade out of Boston, Dennis Wideman never did it.
Even once he was dealt last summer to Florida in the multi-player trade that landed Nathan Horton and Gregory Campbell on Causeway Street, Wideman kept his daggers to himself rather than throw them at the residents of the town that did a complete 180-degree turn in terms of opinions about him from the glorious season of 2008-09 to last season.
Halak
When he left TD Garden with a shootout victory over Tuukka Rask and the Bruins Nov. 6, St. Louis goaltender Jaroslav Halak looked like Tim Thomas’ stiffest competition in the early-season Vezina Trophy race.
