Whitfield earned this chance
Trent Whitfield, who played 833 American Hockey League games and 212 National Hockey League games (playoffs included) before embarking on a coaching career now a decade old, has been in the right place at the right time for a long time. And now his patience pays off with his appointment to coach the Providence Bruins…
Bruins Re-Do Right D
If there was splash for the Boston Bruins in the offseason, it was the acquisition of flashy winger J-J Peterka from the Utah Mammoth, but if there is an acquisition who could change the game for the Bruins next season, it’s Will Borgen. The 29-year-old defenseman (30 on Dec. 19) was acquired from the New…
Bergeron’s brand of greatness earns home in Hall, Bruins history
Wayne Gretzky was holding his hallway scrum on the night of Oct. 6, 2007, after his Phoenix Coyotes lost a 3-1 game to the Boston Bruins, the second game of the season for both teams. Far away from hockey’s epicenter out in Glendale, Arizona, Phoenix’s version of Foxboro, the Great One surveyed the faces of…
Next steps trickier for Bruins
Brady Tkachuk to Florida for draft picks, and now that first-rounder the Panthers owe Boston in the Brad Marchand trade isn’t looking so juicy. Aleksander Barkov and the Panthers are back, probably for at least a few more years, with or without Sergei Bobrovsky. Cue that annoying cat-growl sounder. Of more immediate concern, can anyone…
Canes carry a monkey wrench
That the Carolina Hurricanes have eight pucks on their board against no losses may be a commentary on the vulnerabilities (or at least developmental stage) of their first two playoff opponents, but the Canes’ invincibility through two rounds also points to them as a candidate for monkey-wrench team of the playoffs. They’re the team -…
Bruins still forming identity
Charlie McAvoy and the Boston Bruins’ messy exit from the Stanley Cup playoffs on Friday night reminds Rink Rap of the Bruins’ 1982, Game 7 loss to the Quebec Nordiques on home ice, where an injured Raymond Bourque was not available and when, with two ticks left in a 2-1 game Quebec was about to…
Game 6: Sabres at Bruins
The Boston Bruins are out to rewrite the history books that say they have never come back from a 3-1 series deficit to advance in the playoffs. They have taken 3-1 series deficits to seven games, so a victory tonight against the Buffalo Sabres is not making history in an of itself. The 2007-08 Bruins…
Bruins will go down swinging
Rink Rap is not of the opinion that Sunday was a no-show by the Bruins at TD Garden. Rather, it was something we’ve seen before in the Stanley Cup playoffs, like late in the second period of Game 5 of the 1991 Eastern Conference Final in Boston Garden where future former Bruin Paul Stanton was…
Game 4: Bruins bring changes
The outcome is rarely if ever good for the team that decides it must make drastic personnel or strategic changes in a playoff series. Bruins coach Marco Sturm did that, making the expected change of substituting for rookie James Hagens, whose game has faded as this series with the Buffalo Sabres has ramped up. In…
Game 3: Lyon gets start for Buffalo
The parameters for the Bruins-Sabres, opening-round playoff series have been basically explored, and we now enter the execution vs. execution phase of the series in Boston. Experiments tend to flesh themselves out by the end of Game 3, especially if such an experiment is an alarm-fueled change in fundamental strategy. The Sabres are apparently going…
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