Submit a Story!
Get the BallHype iPhone App
Bergeron: 'Very confident I'll play this year'
Patrice Bergeron, making his first public appearance since suffering a concussion on Dec. 20 against Carolina, spoke for approximately 15 minutes in the home dressing room at TD Banknorth Garden this morning. "I'm very confident I'll play this year," said...
Possible candidates for Plan B
Possible candidates for Plan B
boston.com — Patrice Bergeron surfaced Friday, talking to the media for the first time since getting his bell rung... Dec. 20, and the 23-year-old Bruins center sounded clear-headed and determined to return to the lineup this season. As expected, he did not offer a ... (more) Possible candidates for Plan B
Patrice Bergeron has been skating
bostonherald.com — WILMINGTON - There still is no timetable for a return to game action for Patrice Bergeron, but... there was a heartening sight around 9:30 a.m. yesterday at Ristuccia Arena. ... (more) Patrice Bergeron has been skating
Peter Chiarelli expects Patrice Bergeron back
bostonherald.com — No one can say precisely when, but general manager Peter Chiarelli believes injured Bruins center Patrice Bergeron... will play again this season. "Yeah, I'm pretty... (more) Peter Chiarelli expects Patrice Bergeron back
Comments
Blog Reactions

Bergeron confident he will return this season
Stanley Cup of Chowder — ... "I'm very confident I'll play this year," said Bergeron. "It's a matter of when. That's why I don't want to put on a date on it and get disappointed like I was last year in the playoffs. I've learned from that. So yes, I do think I'll be back." - quote from boston.com ...

Bergeron confident he will return this season
Stanley Cup of Chowder — ... "I'm very confident I'll play this year," said Bergeron. "It's a matter of when. That's why I don't want to put on a date on it and get disappointed like I was last year in the playoffs. I've learned from that. So yes, I do think I'll be back." - quote from boston.com ...

Berginator: "... I'll Be Back"
Hub Hockey — ... on to explain that this concussion was caused by a unintentional blow to the jaw when checking Carolina's Dennis Seidenberg and that any player with previous concussion history or not would have came out of the hit with the same outcome. ""I'm very confident I'll play this year," said Bergeron. "It's a matter of when. That's why I don't want to put on a date on it and get disappointed like I was last year in the playoffs. I've learned from that. So yes, I do think I'll be back."" -Patrice Bergeron via Boston.com

Bergeron Plans To Play This Year
KK Hockey — ... a concussion on Dec. 20 against Carolina, spoke for approximately 15 minutes in the home dressing room at TD Banknorth Garden this morning. “I’m very confident I’ll play this year,” said Bergeron. “It’s a matter of when. That’s why I don’t want to put on a date on it and get disappointed like I was last year in the playoffs. I’ve learned from that. So yes, I do think I’ll be back.” continued

Bruins injury updates: Berg will be back, Sturm, not so much
Boston Sports Buzz - Red Sox Patriots Celtics Bruins MLB NFL NBA NHL Baseball Football Basketball... — ... First, the good: Patrice Bergeron says he's "very confident" he'll return to play this year. For the first time since Dec. 20, when he suffered a concussion against Carolina, Berg says he's headache-free and able to work out without any negative symptoms. It's encouraging news, especially considering the grim diagnosis last year around this time. Hopefully Berg can come back and just get back into the swing of things; it still remains to be seen whether he can be as effective as he was before these concussions (we've seen numerous times that players are often not ...

Puck Headlines: Jagr would take 'minimum salary' for Mario
Puck Daddy — ... and Corpus Christi IceRays brawl we discussed yesterday. The teams met again last night and there was a fight within the first two seconds of the game. [Mudbugs] • Ruslan Fedotenko will miss four-to-six weeks after breaking his hand on Colby Armstrong's face. [Penguins] • In his first public comments since suffering yet another concussion, Patrice Bergeron vows he will play once again this season for the Bruins. [Boston Globe] Preview: San Jose Sharks at Edmonton Oilers (9 ...

Empty Netter Assists - Eastern Conference - 1-10-09
Empty Netters — ... -Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron spoke publically for first time since suffering another concussion Dec. 20. He is confident he will return to the lineup this season. ...

Related Content
Another first for Patrice Bergeron
bostonherald.com 2/4/2009 — WILMINGTON - Patrice Bergeron has been through a lot of firsts this season. In September, he played his first exhibition game since having his 2007-08 season end way...
Dennis Seidenberg hits Patrice Bergeron. (video)
youtube.com 12/21/2008 — Bergeron is injured but the check is clean. Hopefully the stupid Hurricanes will stop bitching about clean headshots now, it happens to everyone, get over it.
Patrice Bergeron breaks out
bostonherald.com 2/18/2009 — RALEIGH, N.C. - It had been nearly three months since Patrice Bergeron found the back of an opponent's net, and last night the Bruins forward finally discovered the secret...
Bergeron Silences The Garden (Again)
ccrawford11.typepad.com 12/20/2008 — This was the scary moment during today Bruins/Hurricanes match-up that sent Patrice Bergeron out of the game and made The Garden dead silent. When the camera first pans back to Bergy laying face down on the ice I immediately started...
Bruins provide minimal update on Bergeron
boston.com 12/20/2008 — Prior to departing the Garden for their charter flight to St. Louis (for a game there tomorrow night), the Bruins offered little update regarding Patrice Bergeron, felled in a collision with Dennis Seidenberg near the middle of the second...
Patrice Bergeron happy to be back home
bostonherald.com 10/21/2008 — First time back on skates, first practice, first preseason game, first regular-season game. And now, the first home game back for Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron, who...
Patrice Bergeron skates with head up
bostonherald.com 1/29/2009 — WILMINGTON - Sad stories abound these days about athletes who suffered multiple concussions, only to pay the price later in life through the horrors of degenerative brain...
Bruins' Bergeron: Players must consider consequences
sportingnews.com 10/31/2008 — CALGARY (CP)-- Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron reserved judgment on the hit that concussed Ca...
All three confirmed for tonight
boston.com 1/27/2009 — Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, and Andrew Ference will all play tonight against Washington. Bergeron, out since Dec. 20 because of a concussion suffered when he collided with Carolina's Dennis Seidenberg, passed the neuro-psych test that is required ...
Patrice Bergeron, Michael Ryder a click away
bostonherald.com 11/12/2008 — WILMINGTON - Bruins coach Claude Julien would like to see center Patrice Bergeron duplicate something that Montreal Canadiens pivot Saku Koivu once accomplished. Julien...
Bruins' Bergeron vows return after concussionLatest Sporting News Articles for NHL 1/9/2009
BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, recovering from his second concussion in 14 mo...
Bruins' Bergeron vows return after concussionESPN.com - NHL 1/9/2009
Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, recovering from his second concussion in 14 months, said Friday he is symptom-free and vowed to return to the ice this season.
Bruins' Bergeron vows return to ice this seasonSI.com - NHL 1/9/2009
Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, recovering from his second concussion in 14 months, said Friday he is symptom-free and vowed to return to the ice this season.
Bruins' Bergeron vows return after concussionBoston.com -- Hockey news 1/9/2009
Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, recovering from his second concussion in 14 months, said Friday he is symptom-free and vowed to return to the ice this season.
Patrice Bergeron confidentBruins & NHL - BostonHerald.com 1/10/2009
Wearing a Bruins baseball cap and sweats, Patrice Bergeron, speaking to the media for the first time since suffering a concussion on Dec. 20 against the Carolina Hurricanes,...