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The Florida Panthers are thinking get this over with now, and the Boston Bruins are thinking one hockey game presenting the opportunity to change the complexion of this second-round playoff series. Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said after Game 3 that he needs to give his players a better plan. That plan will include some shiftingContinue reading “Game 4: Panthers at Bruins”

The purpose of the following exercise is to chart basic outcomes during the NHL’s salary-cap era (2005-06 …) and, farther down, identify two team-building identification points common to teams that win the Stanley Cup. Two-thirds of Montreal’s vaunted Big 3 of the late 1970s, Larry Robinson and Serge Savard, put up a wall in frontContinue reading “Building A Winner”

Sam Bennett, one player who can change a playoff series, is taking the warmup for Game 3 of the Boston Bruins’ second-round series against the Florida Panthers. Bennet took the second line drill between Matthew Tkachuk and Carter Verhaeghe. This is a significant development for this series if Bennett is truly healthy and able toContinue reading “Game 3: Panthers at Bruins”

Brad Marchand said immediately after the Boston Bruins lost Game 6 in Toronto that, if you told him before the 2023-24 NHL season that the Bruins would have a Game 7 on home ice, “we’d take that all day.” Here we are. There is drama on both sides of this Game 7, as Auston MatthewsContinue reading “Game 7”

No Auston Matthews in the house tonight, as the Boston Bruins look to eliminate the Toronto Maple Leafs from the playoffs. Predictably, the Leafs skated hard out of the gate and put together some of the most-sustained 5-on-5 pressure that this series has seen, and it eventually resulted in Jake McCabe goal that gave TorontoContinue reading “Game 5: Bruins Look to Finish”

The Toronto Maple Leafs will put forth a better effort tonight to get the coveted split and take momentum home to Canada for Game 3 and 4 of this best-of-seven series against a Bruins team intent on cleaning up its zone entries and seeing if it’s possible to take a commanding lead in the series.Continue reading “Game 2: Leafs’ response”

A few thoughts on the Toronto Maple Leafs, who are widely regarded in these parts as playoff chokers and for several hockey reasons a much more favorable matchup for the Boston Bruins than, say, the Tampa Bay Lightning. Game 1 is tonight at TD Garden, and both teams seem very eager to get the secondContinue reading “Second Season: Maple Leafs vs. Bruins”

Despite being snuffed out in their own building, the Carolina Hurricanes are 7-2-1 in their last 10 and remain a confident team at the end of a long and quiet but consistent campaign that will see them hosting the 2-3 match in the Metropolitan Division against a severe underdog. So it’s not the N.Y. RangersContinue reading “Canes at Bruins”

A second-round playoff preview or just a late-season game that needs some measure of productivity without injury? At 3-6-1 in their last 10 with five games remaining including this one, the Florida Panthers are four points behind the Bruins are just out of rope. They’re playing better, slaughtered Ottawa in the Tkachuk brothers’ matchup, butContinue reading “Panthers at Bruins”

The New York Rangers are in Boston tonight to take on the Bruins without two, top-four defensemen, Jacob Trouba and Ryan Lindgren. By no means can a result tell us what would happen if these teams won a couple of series and met in the Eastern Conference Final, but some notes will be well worthContinue reading “Rangers, Bruins compare depth”