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Bruins Beat Sabres 4-3 in Game 6, Win Series

By KC Downey ⋅ April 27, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Just a month ago in early March, the Bruins were a team that seemed dead in the water and a certain victim of a first round playoff sweep…if they even made it that far. The team had just lost Marc Savard to a supposed season-ending concussion and initially failed to fight back in his honor.
After a late-season [...]

Sabres Grab Early Lead, Stay Alive to Beat Bruins in Game 5

By KC Downey ⋅ April 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Sabre Adam Mair scored on the team’s first shot on Friday night in Game 5 against the Bruins. OK, no problem. The Sabres have scored first in every game this series, and the Bruins carried a commanding 3-1 series lead. 1-0? Big deal.
Then, the Sabres scored just before the end of the first period on [...]

Bruins Push Buffalo to Brink in 2OT Thriller, 3-2

By Brian Kintz ⋅ April 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Now that, my friends, was entertaining playoff hockey!
It doesn’t get much better than Wednesday night’s Game 4 at the Garden, it just doesn’t. The nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, back-and-forth play by both the Sabres and Bruins had casual fans riveted, had die hard fans exhilerated, and I think had Jack Edwards dangerously close to having a sexy [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Sabres, Game 4

By Brian Kintz ⋅ April 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bruins will look to take a commanding 3-1 advantage in their opening round series against the Sabres tonight, hosting Buffalo at TD Garden for Game 4. Boston will aim at building from their huge Game 3 win, when with the help of a late Patrice Bergeron goal, the B’s took their first lead [...]

Bergeron Gets Game-Winner, Bruins Lead Series 2-1

By KC Downey ⋅ April 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Rub your eyes again. The sixth-seeded Boston Bruins are now two wins away from advancing to the second round. Something that seemed so improbable just weeks ago is now a reality. The Bruins are a good team…well at least they’re playing like it.
In his 45,090,000th playoff game (well, really 154th), Mark Recchi did his part [...]

Chara, Ryder Score Twice to Lead Bruins in Game 2 Win

By KC Downey ⋅ April 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bruins found themselves down 2-0 in the first period with the Sabres continuing to press the issue in front of Tuukka Rask. On the other side of the ice stood Olympic hero Ryan Miller, one of the top men between the pipes in the NHL. Down 1-0 in the series, the Bruins were in [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Sabres, Game 2

By Brian Kintz ⋅ April 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bruins will look to even the series before heading home to Boston this afternoon, as they aim to earn themselves a Game 2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres at HSBC Arena in a Saturday matinee skate.
The B’s had plenty of chances to get ahead of Buffalo in the series in Thursday’s 2-1 loss to [...]

Bruins Fall to Sabres in Game 1, 2-1

By Brian Kintz ⋅ April 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s still anyone’s series, but the Bruins missed out on a golden opportunity to take an early series lead Thursday night in Buffalo. Instead, Olympic hero Ryan Miller stopped all but one of Boston’s 39 shots on the night, including 24 shots in the second period alone, en route to a 2-1 win in [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Sabres, Game 1

By Brian Kintz ⋅ April 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We weren’t sure whether or not the Boston area would get to enjoy playoff hockey this spring, but after a healthy winning streak to round out the regular season, not only are the Bruins (39-30-13, 91 points) in the playoffs, they got themselves up into the sixth seed in the East. Now, instead of having [...]

Boston Bruins-Buffalo Sabres Playoff Preview

By Erikk ⋅ April 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

After a full 82 games composed of highs & lows, injuries & late additions, and joy & (mostly) anger, the Boston Bruins managed to do what some felt was impossible at some points during the season: make the playoffs. Despite scoring the second-fewest goals in the entire league (206 to squeeze by the Calgary Flames’ [...]

Olympians Miller and Thomas Duel, Sabres Prevail 3-2

By KC Downey ⋅ March 30, 2010 ⋅ One comment

I say that Sabres goalie Ryan Miller and Bruins goalie Tim Thomas dueled on Monday night at the TD Garden, but a more accurate statement would be to say that Miller dueled with an unusually energetic Bruins offense. The U.S. Olympian goaltender stopped 40 of 42 shots to lead the Sabres to the 3-2 win.
Tim [...]

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Sabres, Monday March 29th

By Brian Kintz ⋅ March 29, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The Bruins (34-28-12) will look to build on Saturday’s stomping of the Flames tonight when they finish up their brief three-game homestand against Northeast Division leaders, the Buffalo Sabres (41-23-10).
Boston has actually had a good level of success against the Sabres this season, winning three of the four previous meetings. The B’s, still with [...]

Canada 3, USA 2: Canada Narrowly Averts National Humiliation, Wins Gold Medal

By Dan Davis ⋅ February 28, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Do you believe in dramatic yet predictable outcomes?
Olympic hockey favorites Canada narrowly avoided losing on their home ice in their national sport to their hated rivals, the sixth-seeded Team USA, for the second time in a week, winning the gold medal on Sidney Crosby’s sudden-death overtime strike.
In a tense, well-played, and dramatic game, Team USA [...]

Americans Top Mighty Canadians, 5-3

By Brian Kintz ⋅ February 21, 2010 ⋅ One comment

The Vancouver Games have been dominated by the United States thus far, and that superior play carried over into the hockey rink Sunday night, as the highly anticipated battle of North America was finally staged at Canada Hockey Place: the heavily favored hosts from Canada, taking on the youthful, miracle-seeking United States.
Led by a pair [...]

U.S. Hockey Team Knocks Off Norway, 6-1

By Brian Kintz ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The U.S. Olympic men’s hockey squad was able to pull away from the Norwegians with three third period goals Thursday in Vancouver, giving them a convincing 6-1 win and second straight victory, heading into Sunday’s big matchup with the gold medal favorite Canadians.
Former Bruin Phil Kessel and former B.U. grad Chris Drury both netted first [...]