Jonathan Sim tipped home a shot by defenseman Thomas Pock with 6:01 left Saturday, lifting the New York Islanders to a 3-1 victory over the Boston Bruins in a preseason game.
Sim scored his second goal of the preseason as the Islanders raised their record to 4-2 with their second win over the Bruins.
Forget it: Boston Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli says center Marc Savard is not on the trade market. But that doesn’t mean the Bruins aren’t sniffing for deals.
Chiarelli is always looking for the right trade, so it’s good to have such an active GM.
Patrice Brisebois had a goal and two assists as the Montreal Canadiens scored three power-play goals in the second period of a 3-1 preseason victory over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night.
Brisebois got his first goal in two games and assisted on goals by Alex Kovalev and Guillaume Latendresse as the Canadiens scored three times [...]
Brad Stuart scored midway through the third period to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 exhibition victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night. Henrik Zetterberg, Brett Lebda and Cory Emmerton also scored for Stanley Cup champion Detroit (1-0-1).
P.J. Axelsson, Jeremy Reich and Martin St. Pierre tallied for Boston (1-1-1).
With veterans healthy and youngsters one year wiser, the boys in black and gold are ready to build on a so-so 2007 campaign. Despite getting pummeled in Game 7 against the top seeded Canadiens, the bright spots throughout the season were far from scarce.
Bruins Initially an Afterthought in 2007-08
After losing their leader early on in [...]
Boston forward Patrice Bergeron had a goal and three assists in his first game since suffering a severe concussion almost 11 months ago as the Bruins beat the Montreal Canadiens 8-3 in a preseason game Monday night.
So will you be yelling for Yelle this season at the Garden? OK…sorry about that one.
But the Bruins did help out their roster by inking a guy (Yelle is 34) that brings nice veteran presence, which was lost when Glen Murray’s contract was bought out in July. Center/wing Stephane Yelle signed a one-year, $750,000 deal.
According to the Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa, the Bruins are scheduled to hold informal skating sessions at Ristuccia Arena starting on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Click here for a map of the arena’s location.
As always, on-ice sessions are free and open to the public, so I think it would be nice if there were more fans than [...]
The Boston Bruins have bought out the final year of veteran right-winger Glen Murray’s contract. The team announced the move Saturday.
The 35-year-old Murray, a 16-year veteran, has scored 337 goals with 314 assists in 1,009 regular season games. Murray was in his second stint with the Bruins and was their first-round pick in 1991.
The Bruins signed defenseman Dennis Wideman to a multi-year contract extension on Wednesday.
Wideman had career bests last season with 13 goals and 23 assists in 81 games with Boston.
He was the No. 2 scoring defenseman to captain Zdeno Chara and sixth overall on the team. He had three assists in six playoff games for the [...]
The Boston Bruins signed free agent rookie forward Blake Wheeler on Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Wheeler was drafted fifth overall by the Phoenix Coyotes in 2004, but didn’t sign. He then attended the University of Minnesota, where he played the last three seasons.
Last season, he led the Gophers in scoring [...]
The Bruins signed defenseman Mark Stuart to a two-year extension. According to the Boston Globe, the deal will cost the Bruins $1.3 million against the cap each of the next two seasons. The deal is reportedly worth $1.1 million in the first year of the deal, and Stuart gets a $400,000 raise in year No. [...]
The Boston Bruins needed goalscorers so badly in the 2007-2008 season, that they decided to invest in one in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. GM Peter Chiarelli and current Vice President Cam Neely decided on Alberta Junior Hockey League player Joe Colborne.
The 6′5″ forward was recently named the Canadian Junior A Hockey League Player of [...]
The Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday acquired defenseman Jonathan Sigalet from the Boston Bruins in exchange for the rights to left wing Matt Marquardt.
A fourth-round pick of the Bruins in 2005, the 22-year-old Sigalet has appeared in just one NHL game.
The Boston Bruins re-signed veteran defenseman Aaron Ward to a multiyear contract extension. Ward, 35, had five goals and eight assists in 65 regular-season games for the Bruins last year, as well as one assist in six playoff games.
He has 40 goals and 88 assists in a 13-year career with five teams.
Ward was the fifth [...]