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A family commitment kept me from last night’s shootout loss against Vancouver – the Bruins’ first loser point of the season 36 games in(!) – but I watched it on replay when I got home and probably replayed the two quick, early-third-period goals that the Canucks scored on Fraser Minten’s line that turned the gameContinue reading “Sens at Bruins”

When asked about their favorite game atmospheres, National Hockey League players usually mention the Bell Centre, but it’s become the house of horrors for Charlie McAvoy. If Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney is on the phone this week, he’s trying to identify an available, experienced, right-shot defenseman he can acquire and not only toContinue reading “Bruins need to make the right deal”

Roster changes were made in advance of tonight’s game between the Boston Bruins and the Carolina Hurricanes. While local media awaited word on the status of defenseman Charlie McAvoy (who took a puck to the jaw, knocking him out of Saturday night’s win in Montreal – it’s still a waiting game), GM Don Sweeney announcedContinue reading “Canes at Bruins”

The Boston Bruins certainly owe a shellacking to the Ottawa Senators after the embarrassing L stuck on them by the home team that incidentally led to this winning streak that the Bruins are now on. It’s also weird that Brady Tkachuk was not part of that debacle on Oct. 27 and won’t be part ofContinue reading “Sens at Bruins”

Under coach Rod Brind’Amour, the Carolina Hurricanes have been playing a man-to-man defense for defensive-zone coverage for several years so, while most of the chatter around the Boston Bruins has focused on goaltending, the story today is the Bruins’ comparative struggles to pick up the new system installed by coach Marco Sturm and live upContinue reading “Canes at Bruins”

The late, great Pat Burns told the media during one of his four training camps as coach of the Boston Bruins that the cuts that define the opening-night roster are not necessarily the end of the competition and that players shouldn’t get too comfortable in the NHL or too discouraged in the AHL. He literallyContinue reading “2025-26 Season Preview: Minten at heart of next-gen Bruins”

Who knows how many regular-season games the Boston Bruins will play before reversing some of the decisions made in the last 48 hours. Thanks to today’s round of cuts, Bruins Head Coach Marco Sturm has his team. Placed on waivers for the express purpose of reassignment to AHL Providence, left-shot wingers Matej Blumel and AlexContinue reading “Beecher, Viel survive unkindest cut”

It was only a matter of time before centers John Farinacci and Dans Locmelis and right-shot defenseman Billy Sweezey would be assigned to the Providence Bruins, but I wasn’t sure about Dalton Bancroft. The right winger out of Cornell popped home a pair of goals in his only preseason appearance, the Boston Bruins’ win at Philadelphia on Saturday. BancroftContinue reading “Bruins’ second cut leaves focus on Blumel, Steeves, Lysell, Merkulov”

One of the possibilities the late, great Pat Burns stressed during a Boston Bruins training camp of his 1997-2000 tenure was the difference between an opening-night roster and what the team will look like in a month. Training camp goes into the season, he instructed us. Yes, new coach Marco Sturm has separated his twoContinue reading “Bruins are taking shape… or are they?”