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Patrice Bergeron scores in OT as Bruins beat Sabres 2-1
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Patrice Bergeron scored with 47 seconds into overtime, lifting the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night.
Bergeron won a faceoff...
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Chris Phillips keys Senators' rout of Penguins
Chris Phillips scored twice in his 800th regular-season game and Pascal Leclaire made 25 saves, leading the Senators to a 6-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins last night...
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Marc Savard's return cautiously delayed
ATLANTA - Bruins center Marc Savard will soon sign a lengthy and lucrative contract extension that will keep him in Boston well into the next decade, according to a team source,...
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Patrice Bergeron's shootout goal gives Bruins 4-3 win
ATLANTA - Michael Ryder scored twice, Patrice Bergeron had the only goal of the shootout and the Boston Bruins snapped Atlanta's four-game winning streak with a 4-3...
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Michael Ryder
Atlanta Thrashers
Bruins, Savard closing in on extension
ATLANTA - The Bruins and Marc Savard are hammering out the final details of a multi-year contract extension, according to a source. Precise terms are not known, but it's...
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Marc Savard
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Carolina Hurricanes place Eric Staal, Cam Ward on injured list
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have placed goalie Cam Ward and All-Star center Eric Staal on the injured list.
The team said on Thursday that Ward was put on the...
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Claude Julien goes back to basics with Bruins
WILMINGTON - Claude Julien has brought a simple September solution to a November problem.
The coach's struggling Bruins will employ a back-to-basic formula when...
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Tomas Vokoun, Florida rattle Sabres
Michael Frolik scored twice, Dominic Moore and Rostislav Olesz had a goal and an assist each and Tomas Vokoun made 26 saves as the surging Florida Panthers beat the Sabres,...
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Dominic Moore
Scouting report: Bruins at Thrashers
TONIGHT - 7, Centennial Tower, Atlanta. TV - NESN. Radio - WBZ-FM (98.5).
THE NUMBERS 26.5 vs. 84.7: The Thrashers have the second most potent power...
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Capitols club Rangers
Matt Bradley bounced back from having his face bloodied in a first-period fight to net the winning goal with 4:51 left, and Alex Ovechkin also scored in his return from injury...
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Matt Bradley
New York Rangers
Bruins Marc Savard might play
WILMINGTON - While the Bruins' offensive production seemingly could not get any worse, the news out Ristuccia Arena could not have been better.
Injured center Marc...
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Tuukka Rask mistake a clear problem
Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask allowed the one thing he could least afford in last night's 4-1 loss to the New York Islanders at the Garden.
The Bruins have shown throughout...
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New York Islanders
Flyers break Devils' streak
Darroll Powe, Scott Hartnell and James van Riemsdyk scored goals as the Philadelphia Flyers edged New Jersey, 3-2, last night to snap the Devils' eight game winning streak.
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Philadelphia Flyers
Scott Hartnell
James Brown
Islanders' Scott Gordon prospers
During his five years as coach of the Bruins' AHL affiliate in Providence, Scott Gordon had many backers who believed he would be an outstanding NHL coach.
Year...
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Islanders leave Bruins on
Who could have imagined we would reach the one-quarter mark of the NHL season and be pondering the possibility that the New York Islanders will be in the playoffs?
And...
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Carolina finds win column
Jussi Jokinen scored the winning goal in the shootout and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Minnesota Wild, 5-4, yesterday in Raleigh, N.C., to end a 14-game winless streak.
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Scouting report: Islanders at Bruins
TONIGHT - 7, TD Garden. TV - NESN. Radio - WBZ-FM (98.5).
THE NUMBERS 6-2-4: Islanders' record in their last 12 games.
11: First-period goals...
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New York Islanders
Bruin's aim: Play complete game
The confounding thing about the Bruins is that they aren't that far away from being a good team. None of their last dozen opponents would dispute that, even if the B's...
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Tim Thomas will be going camping in Marlboro
Tim Thomas is branching out.
The past two offseasons, the Bruins' Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender operated hockey camps in Burlington, Vt., where he played collegiately...
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Games matter to sore Marc Savard
PITTSBURGH - Marc Savard's chance at making the Canadian Olympic team, which many around the NHL believed he warranted, didn't appear strong after the Bruins center...
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Marc Savard
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NJ pushes winning streak to eight games
The New Jersey Devils are playing so well that even an early two-goal deficit is no sweat.
Zach Parise's breakaway highlighted a three-goal second period, and the...
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Zach Parise
Hearty second helpings
The kids are killing the middle class.
And that's a shame for a guy like Shawn Thornton.
One of the most negative trends in the National Hockey League - unless,...
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Shawn Thornton
Penguins stun Bruins in slugfest
PITTSBURGH - Pascal Dupuis scored his second goal of the game 1:24 into overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins welcomed back star forward Evgeni Malkin by snapping their four-game...
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Evgeni Malkin
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Buffalo douses Calgary
Jason Pominville scored the winner in the fourth round of the shootout, and Ryan Miller made 25 saves to help the Sabres beat Calgary, 2-1, last night in Buffalo, snappin...
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Jason Pominville
Ryan Miller
Calgary Flames
David Krejci's goal to find scoring touch
WILMINGTON - The immense pressure Bruins center David Krejci currently is feeling will abate only when he decides to let it go.
Krejci put that theory to work during...
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Jersey still a hit on road
Niclas Bergfors had a goal and two assists and the New Jersey Devils closed within a victory of tying the NHL record of 10 consecutive road victories to start a season, beating...
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New Jersey Devils
Milan Lucic returns to morning skate
When Milan Lucic and Marc Savard were injured in successive games in mid-October, the Bruins lost arguably their two most important forwards. They knew at the time the pair...
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Marc Savard
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Tim Thomas draws a blank
Bruins goalie Tim Thomas outfoxed himself on the final play of last night's 1-0 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers.
The shootout entered the sudden-death phase...
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Florida Panthers
Tomas Vokoun, Panthers beat Bruins 1-0 in shootout
BOSTON - The Florida Panthers were content to take the game into a shootout. At least that way they knew they'd get off three more shots.
Tomas Vokoun stopped 40...
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Tomas Vokoun
Boston Bruins
Bruins' David Krejci in cross hairs
WILMINGTON - Bruins coach Claude Julien is generally not the sort to voice public criticism of his players. When he does have something negative to say, it's usually...
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Claude Julien
Boston Bruins
Bruins' Claude Julien calls out David Krejci
WILMINGTON - Bruins coach Claude Julien is generally not the sort to voice public criticism of his players. When he does have something negative to say, it's usually...
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Claude Julien
Boston Bruins
Scouting report: Panthers at Bruins
TONIGHT - 7, TD Garden. TV - NESN. Radio - WBZ-FM (98.5).
THE NUMBERS
25-25-6-3: B's all-time record vs. Florida, including...
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Florida Panthers
Boston Bruins
Capitals beat Islanders in 11-round shootout
Chris Clark scored the deciding goal in the 11th round of the shootout, and backup goalie Semyon Varlamov came on in relief and carried the Capitals to a 5-4 comeback victory...
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Washington Capitals
Chris Clark
New York Islanders
Bruins take two, write off reigning champ Penguins
The Bruins have felt they've been on the right track for a while. Last night they finally got some evidence to support that notion.
Scoring goals still is taking...
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Miikka Kiprusoff blanks Canadiens
Miikka Kiprusoff got his first shutout of the season and Jarome Iginla extended his goal-scoring streak to four games, leading the Calgary Flames to a 1-0 victory against...
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Montreal Canadiens
Forward thinking helps 'D' frustrate Sidney Crosby
Normally, you pick your poison against the Pittsburgh Penguins. You can focus your defense on stopping Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin. You may contain one, but it's going...
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Evgeni Malkin
Finally, Mark Recchi notches 900th assist
At 41, Mark Recchi is more interested in team goals than anything else, but when the inevitable milestones come along, he doesn't mind cherishing those, either.
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Mark Recchi
Bruins shut out slumping Penguins 3-0
Tim Thomas stopped 27 shots for his second shutout of the season, and Sidney Crosby was held without a point for the fifth straight game as the Boston Bruins beat the Pittsburgh...
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Bruins center attention
WILMINGTON - The Bruins are not using tonight's game with the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins at the Garden as a barometer of their season.
However,...
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Bruins center attention
WILMINGTON - The Bruins are not using tonight's game with the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins at the Garden as a barometer of their season.
However,...
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Back on ice, David Krejci may play tonight
WILMINGTON - The Bruins lifted their quarantine on David Krejci, and the center practiced yesterday at Ristuccia Arena after recovering from the H1N1 virus.
Krejci was...
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Scouting report: Penguins at Bruins
TONIGHT - 7, TD Garden. TV - Versus. Radio - WBZ-FM (98.5).
THE NUMBERS : Penguins' power-play rank, out of 30 NHL teams.
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Jonathan Toews leads Blackhawks
Jonathan Toews and Troy Brouwer scored power-play goals in a 3:31 span early in the third period, leading the Blackhawks to a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings last night...
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Chicago Blackhawks
Los Angeles Kings
Penguins president David Morehouse has heart attack
PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh Penguins president David Morehouse is recovering from a heart attack in San Jose, Calif., where the team played its last game.
Penguins' vice...
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Newest class of Hockey Hall of Fame gets its rings
TORONTO - The Hockey Hall of Fame's class of 2009 has received its rings.
Steve Yzerman, Luc Robitaille, Brian Leetch, former Phoenix Coyote Brett Hull and New Jersey...
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Oilers end Avs' home rule
Ryan Potulny and Dustin Penner scored two of Edmonton's four power-play goals and also had assists, and the Oilers handed the Colorado Avalanche their first home loss...
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Edmonton Oilers
Colorado Avalanche
Dustin Penner
Bruins find touch with man advantage
Veteran left winger Mark Recchi put the red light back in the Bruins' dormant power play.
Recchi redirected a Derek Morris slap shot between the pads of rookie goalie...
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Derek Morris
Bruins improved power
Four goals in one game added up to an onslaught for the Bruins.
The B's scored as many goals in a 4-2 victory over the Northeast Division-leading Buffalo Sabres...
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Phil Kessel nets 1st for Leafs
Phil Kessel scored his first goal for the Maple Leafs and Jonas Gustavsson made 35 saves in a 5-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings last night in Toronto.
Kessel was...
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Phil Kessel
Toronto Maple Leafs
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Tuukka Rask watches, learns
Tuukka Rask did his homework on the scoring tendencies of the Buffalo Sabres.
Rask made 28 saves in last night's 4-2 win at the Garden. He benefited from exceptional...
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