Author Archives: Mick Colageo

The Boston Bruins needed a response game this afternoon at home against the improving Arizona Coyotes, and two goals and an assist by David Pastrnak and some timely saves by Linus Ullmark led the response in a 5-3 victory over the Arizona Coyotes this afternoon at TD Garden. The Bruins played the game without CharlieContinue reading “Bruins lose Zacha, find their way past Coyotes”

Connor Clifton had a primary assist on Buffalo’s second goal and threw a big hit that created the 2-on-1 that led to the Sabres’ third goal in a well-deserved, 3-1 road win over the sluggish Bruins on Thursday night at the Garden. The main concern from the Bruins’ end will be Charlie McAvoy, who ranContinue reading “Clifton, Sabres simply better than slow-starting Bruins”

The San Jose Sharks skated onto TD Garden ice tonight a much better team than their 5-15-2 record would suggest, and it took a strong, structured effort from the Boston Bruins to make their superior talent pay off in a 3-0 victory that snaps a three-game debacle streak. The Bruins showed patience through a staleContinue reading “Bruins right their ship”

The Boston Bruins’ longest-serving playoff beard? Not the one that Raymond Bourque began growing on April 5, 1990, for Game 1 of the Adams Division opening-round series against Hartford and shaved off prior to the final game of the 1990 Stanley Cup final against Edmonton on May 24. No, that distinction belongs to Lanny LeeContinue reading “Tom Larson stayed the course”

The improved Detroit Red Wings are here for an “original six” weekend matinee, after which the Boston Bruins will pay forward the favor to the New York Rangers. Think of it like an extended holiday weekend of old friends but more for the purpose of sharing hostilities rather than memories. As an aside, the firstContinue reading “Red Wings at Bruins”

Rink Rap caught Bruins coach Jim Montgomery’s pregame availability in anticipation of today’s 1 pm matinee vs. Detroit, and he announced that Morgan Geekie will return to the lineup. James van Riemsdyk and Oskar Steen get the day off, but at least JV-AHH will return tomorrow at this time in New York for Saturday’s 1Continue reading “Bruins get Geek Squad in order”

Bobby Orr and the Big, Bad Bruins took the ice tonight to raise their fourth and fifth Stanley Cup banners, a warm sight given this kind of ceremony didn’t happen until the New York Rangers won the Cup in 1994 and came back to the lockout-delayed 1995 season with the Cup in Madison Square Garden.Continue reading “Banner Night: Montreal at Boston”

Third-period goals from David Pastrnak and Charlie Coyle (2, the second a hat-trick goal) offset a short-handed gift to the Islanders and put the Bruins in good stead (5-2 in the waning minutes) to finish off a grind of a victory at TD Garden. Here is the game summary: THIRD PERIOD Marchand and Pastrnak madeContinue reading “Pasta, Coyle push Bruins past Islanders”

If not for what happened last spring that made this past Monday’s game feel so important, tonight would be the biggest game of the new season. The Bruins have barely faced their own division, but with the Red Wings being here last weekend and the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight, that’s two occasions that by 9:45Continue reading “Lohrei time vs. Leafs”

I may have missed my window, but last year Stop & Shop (lovingly referred to as “Stop & hop” by my way-better half because the light was out on the second Capital-S where she once lived) had “Pasta” on sale for 88 cents a box – yellow labels, in a barrel, toward the front ofContinue reading “Prolific Pasta”