Boychuk/By S. Bradley

There were fewer bone-crushing, open-ice hits and less appearances by his rocket-like shot in Johnny Boychuk’s second full NHL season.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

VANCOUVER — In order to be focused on Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk said he was operating in the complete radio silence after the Bruins won Game 6 Monday night.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

VANCOUVER — Back when Johnny Boychuk had only been on the ice for six straight goals against, Bruins head coach Claude Julien was asked about his defenseman’s play.

He declined to answer that day because it was the morning of Game 7 of the Tampa Bay Eastern Conference Final.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

BOSTON — You knew it was only a matter of time before Tampa Bay forward Steve Downie would be involved in an controversial play.

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Boychuk celebrates/By S. Bradley

BOSTON — Sometimes it looks like Johnny Boychuk’s at an amusement park taking five shots for a quarter.

He loads up, fires, and then he tries again without much pause.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

MONTREAL — Johnny Boychuk played not only his best game of the Bruins’ playoff series with Montreal, but maybe his best game in months tonight in Boston’s 4-2 win.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

BOSTON – Forwards that don’t produce the point totals they like in the regular season like to look at the playoffs as starting over.

That goes for defensemen too, especially ones that are expected to produce like Johnny Boychuk.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

WILMINGTON, Mass. — If Hollywood make-up artists created a closed-up shiner on a actor’s face that resembled Johnny Boychuk’s left eye right now, they’d be fired for overdoing it.

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Boychuk

This one might be a little rough for Bruins backers to watch again, but at least its gives you an even better idea of Johnny Boychuk’s toughness.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

With two of their top seven defensemen now on the shelf, and with the bulky, hard-hitting, injury-plagued Pittsburgh Penguins joining them on the TD Garden ice tonight, the Bruins need everyone on their back end to play at a playoff level.

That means they need Johnny Boychuk to replicate what he accomplished Thursday night in the win over Tampa Bay.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

Readers of TheBruinsBlog.net fashion themselves hockey coaches on par with Bruins head coach Claude Julien, and tonight they were in agreement with the bench boss.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

WILMINGTON, Mass. — A healthy scratch for 24 games as a rookie last season, Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk is no stranger to the press box or what it takes to fight one’s way back into a team’s top six.

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Boychuk/By S. Bradley

BOSTON — Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk, who scored five goals in 51 games last season, has scored just once in 46 appearances this year.

And while Boychuk told TheBruinsBlog.net this morning that he thinks his defensive game is sort of making up for his lack of production, head coach Claude Julien obviously disagrees.

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Thornton/By S. Bradley

WILMINGTON, Mass. — Bruins forward Shawn Thornton and defenseman Johnny Boychuk took a little guff from Canadian media types for taking on Roman Hamrlik and Jaroslav Spacek, respectively, toward the end of Boston’s 8-6 win over Montreal last night at TD Garden.

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There were plenty of great hits in tonight’s Bruins-Montreal game, but two especially stuck out once the final horn sounded on the Canadiens’ 4-3 win.

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