Whitfield/By S. Bradley
The Bruins took Tuesday off after winning back-to-back games against Montreal Sunday and Monday.
When they report to practice Wednesday, they might be short two centers off their current training camp roster.
League-wide award for red-hot P-Bruins center Whitfield
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It had been a slow go for Trent Whitfield since returning to action with the Bruins’ Providence (AHL) farm club after a lengthy injury absence, until things sped last week.
Whitfield working on a New Year’s return, or thereabouts
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If everything goes exactly to Trent Whitfield’s plan, the journeyman center will be back in the Providence (AHL) lineup on New Year’s Day.
P-Bruins lose leadership with Whitfield injured
Whitfield
Let’s face it folks, there’s no reason to panic about how Trent Whitfield’s season-ending injury, reported and confirmed by numerous outlets the last couple days, is going to affect the depth chart in Boston.
If there’s one area the Bruins can afford to lose players, it’s at center.
Julien can’t go wrong with Whitfield
Whitfield
PHILADELPHIA – The decision to insert either center Trent Whitfield or winger Brad Marchand into the Bruins’ lineup in place of the injured David Krejci for Friday’s Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series with Philadelphia should come down to just one number: 57.9
That’s the percentage of faceoffs Whitfield won in his 16 games in a Boston sweater this season. He prevailed 103 of 178 draws. With momentum in this series seemingly shifting on every faceoff, and mostly rolling in the Bruins’ favor, the Bruins are going to need to make sure they have as many men ready to claim an important faceoff as they can. (more…)
