UNIONDALE, N.Y. As one would expect, Claude Julien and New York Islanders coach Jack Capuano spent part of the last couple of days chatting about coaching an outdoor NHL hockey game. Julien and Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau are the only two NHL coaches with multiple wins in the outdoor games that have grown in popularity over the last couple of seasons, and he learned plenty in his time behind...
BOSTON, MA – On Tuesday, January 28, the Boston Bruins are teaming up with the American Heart Association (AHA) as Tufts Medical Center presents the Boston Bruins Eighth Annual Heart Health Night during their game against the Florida Panthers at 7......
For 40 minutes the Chicago Blackhawks did just about anything they wanted against the Winnipeg Jets. They outshot the Jets, coming off a game against Toronto on Saturday night, badly 27-6-after-two-periods badly. There were two things the Blackhawks couldnt do, however: get one more goal and close out the final 20 minutes. The Jets, however, did....
UNIONDALE Chris Kelly was a full participant in Sundays brief practice at the Nassau Coliseum, and was still at the facility stretching and working out long after the team had exited the ice. The 33-year-old continues to close on a return to the lineup after missing the last six plus weeks with a broken right ankle suffered on a Pascal Dupuis slash back on Dec. 7. His presence with the Bruins on the...
UNIONDALE, NY -- The Islanders are one of those rare NHL teams thats consistently manhandled the Bruins this season, winning a pair of regular-season meetings. The Islanders have outscored the Bs by an 8-4 margin in taking the two contests, but the circumstances behind the two Boston defeats were vastly different: Thomas Vanek and John Tavares dominated offensively in a 3-1 win at Nassau Coliseum that...
UNIONDALE -- Ryan Spooner missed Saturdays game against the Philadelphia Flyers with flu-like symptoms, and was still wracked with a cough as he worked out on the ice Sunday afternoon with the rest of his teammates at Nassau Coliseum. Carl Soderberg filled in for Spooner as the third line center against the Flyers, and had a quiet afternoon with a single shot on net in 17:17 of ice time. It was a flu...
* Here's a fair, complete look at the job that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has done over the last 20 years. The league has been rightfully mocked at times for some of the decisions that have been made, but theres no denying that Bettman has overseen the NHLs transformation into a multi-billion dollar business success story. * More NHL drivel from the New York Times while beating the anti-fighting...
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PHILADELPHIA It will be a little odd for the Bruins waiting so long in the season to play the Broad Street Bullies with their first meeting at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The Flyers will undoubtedly be desperate given that theyve lost three games in a row while attempting to stay relevant in the Metro Division, and keep away from the turmoil that opened up their season. Claude Julien doesnt...
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PHILADELPHIA The Bruins lineup will take a bit of a different look on Saturday afternoon against the Flyers with players shuttling in and out of the lineup. Ryan Spooner will be a scratch due to a bug hes been fighting the last few days thats taken some of the energy out of his game, and Carl Soderberg will slide over to center the third line for the first time this season. Spooner has two points in...
PHILADELPHIA The Bruins rewarded their coach for this weeks time off by blowing the Philadelphia Flyers out of their own building on Saturday afternoon. The Bs scored the first four goals of the game in pushing Steve Mason out in the second period, and cruised to a 6-1 victory over the Broad Street Bullies at the Wells Fargo Center. It was the Flyers fourth straight defeat, and gives the Bruins seven...
PHILADELPHIA The Bruins will have a nice little Eastern Conference showdown on Saturday afternoon they tangle with the Philadelphia Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center for the first time this season. Tuukka Rask and Steve Mason will be the starting goaltenders for the Bruins and Flyers respectively, and Daniel Paille will get bumped up to third line duty with Carl Soderberg and Loui Eriksson. That leaves...
Great to see Reading, Mass. native Joe Whitney get a sniff at the NHL level with the New Jersey Devils after getting very little pro consideration as a 5-foot-6 skill forward at Boston College. The kid deserves a shot.Three periods from Nick Cotsonika: he tackles security in Sochi, and several other topics in his Yahoo! Sports column.Theres an interesting situation brewing with defenseman Marc Methot...
PHILADELPHIA Here are five thoughts from the first period with the Bruins leading the Philadelphia Flyers by a 2-0 score after the first 20 minutes of action at the Wells Fargo Center. 1) Big day for Jarome Iginla, who had gone without a goal in his last eight games in a slow month of January. Iginla finished with an assist on Zdeno Charas power play goal, and then added his own sniper shot to Steve...
The countdown on what figures to be a decisive next 15 days for the Flyers in terms of the NHL standings got off to an ominous start Saturday afternoon at the Wells Fargo Center. The big, bad Boston Bruins thoroughly embarrassed the Flyers during a 6-1 bludgeoning. Many of the same issues that have haunted the Flyers for two weeks now reared their head in this game. Including turnovers and scoring...
PHILADELPHIA -- Defenseman Zdeno Chara and right winger Jarome Iginla scored two goals each to lead the Boston Bruins to a 6-1 victory over the slumping Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday....
'The more you can spread around the scoring, the tougher you are to defend,'...
It was easily the worst performance Nick Grossmann has had in his 104 games in orange and black. He was more or less responsible for four of Bostons goals during Saturdays 6-1 debacle at the Wells Fargo Center (see Instant Replay). Grossmann screened goalie Steve Mason on Bostons second goal of the game. Its not a good game for us, and Ive been talking a lot of what to do, Grossmann said....
PHILADELPHIA -- If the top line has a slow night, other players are picking up the slack for the Boston Bruins. Defenseman Zdeno Chara and right winger Jarome Iginla scored two goals each to lead the Bruins to a 6-1 victory over the slumping Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday. Right winger Reilly Smith and center Patrice Bergeron also had goals, center David Krejci had three assists and goaltender Tuukka...