The Boston Bruins go into the offseason with a lot of optimism for the future. This was a young team that arrived ahead of schedule this year. In early November, I recall being at a wedding reception here in New England and talking about the B’s prospects with a friend whose hockey knowledge I particularly […]
There is no hotter team in sports right now than the Boston Bruins. Since a December 14 loss to the Washington Capitals, the Bruins have reeled off a 17-game streak in which they have either won or at least gotten to overtime—meaning that’s 17 straight games with a point. They just completed a strange stretch […]
Two days after Super Bowl Sunday, the city of Boston was celebrating as the New England Patriots rode the duck boats through downtown amidst the snow and slush. Nearby, at the headquarters of the Boston Bruins, big changes were afoot. The Bruins fired head coach Claude Julien, who had been at the helm since 2008 […]
The Boston Bruins are in the midst of a meltdown. They’ve lost five straight games in regulation and a playoff berth that was once reasonably in hand in the balanced and difficult Eastern Conference is now in serious jeopardy. The problem is that the defense that was the staple of this franchise’s recent strong years […]
The NHL season starts tonight and the Los Angeles Kings and Boston Bruins are both teams in need of making up for disappointments. In 2014, the Kings won the Stanley Cup, while the Bruins won the President’s Trophy, as the league’s best regular season team. Neither one made the playoffs last year and both had […]
The Boston Bruins won the President’s Trophy, given to the team with the most regular season points, and the Bruins then ousted the Detroit Red Wings in five games to open the playoffs. But it all came undone in the second round, as Boston lost Game 7 last night at home to the Montreal Canadiens by a 3-1 count. How did it happen?
The Boston Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Finals in 2013 and came within a minute of reaching the seventh game. The Bruins won the Cup in 2011 and their goaltender, Tuuka Raask, has led Finland into the semi-finals of the Olympic tournament on Friday. Boston leads the Atlantic Division with a 37-16-4 record and trails only the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference overall.
After a slow start, the Boston Bruins have had control of the NHL’s Northeast Division for several weeks now. But in the rearview mirror of last year’s Stanley Cup champs comes the Ottawa Senators, on an 8-1-1 tear and pulling to within one point of the lead. With the current playoff standings showing Boston at […]