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David Krejci had the H1N1 virus, won't play tonight and is day-to-day. Peter Chiarelli predictably said the team is taking sufficient precautions to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus. Claude Julien and his club are down with Chiarelli's take. Julien says other teams don't care about the problems facing his team. FYI, Canadiens in Boston tonight.

After starting the year with a 2-3-0 record that, quite possibly, looked worse than the actual record did, the Bruins left Boston looking to play better hockey. Coach Claude Julien actually said it's not that bad. Bostonist will just agree to disagree. One quick trip to Dallas and a complete 3-0 victory later over the Stars, and all is agreeable to Coach Julien and Bostonist. Call us crazy if you wish, but some Bruins hockey was on display in the first two periods. Marc Savard asserted himself with two goals and Patrice Bergeron added the third score. Tim Thomas turned back all 27 Dallas shots for his first shutout of 2009-10.

• The early action in ALDS Game Three favors the Red Sox. A 5-1 lead thanks, in part, to Dustin Pedroia finally proving the Sox can score runs against the Angels. J.D Drew homered, too. Clay Buchholz leads Boston's potential last stand and needed 152 pitches to complete the first two innings versus the LAA.

• The New England Patriots face another key test today against Josh McDaniels and the Denver Broncos. Denver is 4-0 thanks to a stout defense worthy of Belichick.

• The Boston Bruins were thoroughly outplayed by the recently dreadful New York Islanders for most of Saturday's game, and looked headed for a third bad loss in four games. The Bruins ended with a memorable comeback featuring two Marc Savard scores, including the game-winner in a shoot-out.

• No need to wory about a third straight ACC title game forBoston College as the Eagles lost to #5 Virginia Tech, 48-14.

While Bud Selig teases us with the idea of an actual playoff game involving the Red Sox, the rest of the sports world is moving at a faster pace. Your Boston Bruins signed Phil Kessel Milan Lucic to a three-year extension through 2012-2013. Good for the B's, and Lucic. He plays hard, fans love him and he is exactly the kind of player the franchise wants to have. However, they just gave $12.25 million over three years to a player with 25 career goals.

With the Red Sox in the insignificant final series of 2009, the most interesting topic today for Bostonist is, you guessed it, the notoriously enigmatic Patriots injury report! Jerod Mayo and Vince Wilfork generated a lot of interest as Bill Belichick listed them as "doubtful" and "questionable," respectively.

Oh, and the Red Sox lost the game, 9-5. Lester wasn't having a very good even before the ball hit his knee. He threw 78 pitches in 2.1 innings and allowed eight hits and five runs. David Ortiz had three RBI. A-Rod was 3-3 with four RBI and three stolen bases. The Yankees stole 97 bases. We know the box score says seven, but it felt like more.

After 1170+ days of waiting for Phil Kessel to be traded, Bruins fans can rest easy. The Bruins reportedly traded Kessel to Toronto on Friday for three draft picks. According to CBCSports, Toronto inked Kessel to a five-year, $27 million contract. ESPN also reported the deal.

When Josh Beckett stomped off the mound after the fourth inning, he sure looked mad about something. Perhaps Beckett was realizing that he is done pitching against Atlanta for the balance of the 2009 season. Beckett (9-3) stopped the Braves cold, again, this time with seven shutout innings, six hits and six strikeouts as the Red Sox beat the Braves, 8-2. Beckett pitched 16 scoreless innings against Atlanta this year. Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Paplebon closed the game out. Both were adequate, at best, as Paplebon served up a home run to someone named David Ross, who exists and played eight games for Boston in 2008.

There's a new reason for us to hate Roger Clemens. Indirectly. Baseball legends Clemens, Reggie Jackson, Joe Morgan and Pete Rose were treated to plane rides, strippers and hookers, among other things, from a "friend" named Kenneth Jowdy. Unfortunately, Jowdy paid for the plane rides, strippers and hookers using money 19 current or former NHLers invested with him in a golf resort that was never built. Oops! Five of the NHL veterans, who are now suing Jowdy, played for the Bruins. Sergei Gonchar, Glen Murray, Bryan Berard, Dmitri Khristich and Jozef Stumpel all spent time in Boston and lost between $250,000 and $500,000. Morgan, already not popular with the Nation, denies involvement.

Bostonist will be liveblogging the Bruins and Celtics playoffs games tonight. Please stop by and add your own comment to the hilarity. And bring us beer. The Bruins game kicks off at 7 p.m. and the Celts get going at 8.

It's two huge games tomorrow night, as the Bruins face elimination (again) in Raleigh in game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Celtics try to put an end to the Magic in the NBA playoffs. And Bostonist wants you to watch the games with us. We'll be live blogging the Bruins and (maybe) the Celtics games tomorrow night. Pencil us in and tell your own hilarious jokes about the invisible appendage that Paul Pierce has been using to foul people.

Word has just arrived from the NHL that Carolina Hurricanes wing Scott Walker will be fined $2,500 for rearranging Aaron Ward's face at the end of last night's game, but he will not be suspended. The punishment is the second of a one-two sucker punch—a more accurate metaphor might be a sucker punch team-up—because the NHL rules prescribe an automatic suspension for any player who receives a fight instigator penalty during the last five minutes of the game. Walker's instigator penalty came with just under 3 minutes left to play.

We can't put Saturday's Bruins game into context any better than the Globe's succinct take: "It was a complete team effort, just when the slumping Bruins needed everyone to pull together."

Scott Clemmensen. Scott, Scott, Scott-Scott, Scott. How quickly we forget. We were happy as you and your crop of BC Eagles took home that national title in 2001. And now, here we are, seeing what it's like when you're guarding that opposing net. You've gone and grown up on us. We'd be proud if we weren't so annoyed that the Bruins lost last night.

If there was ever any doubt that the Boston Bruins are the Rodney Dangerfield of Boston sports' Big Four (sorry, Revs), today confirms it. The black and gold dragged their exhausted selves onto the ice in Toronto on Monday night to face down the Leafs and continue a schedule that has them playing 10 games in 18 days. They won, 3-2, proving again the Boston hockey can consistently win. Phil Kessel, Matt Hunwick and Michael Ryde notched the goals for the B's.

Better late than never, right? In a post-Halloween hangover, we missed the first week of November book events, but don't worry--there are plenty more to come in this month. Learn about beef (the kind you eat, not the dispute kind), the OED, and your up-and-coming Bruins; participate in a Twilight costume contest; and meet Wally Lamb or Annie Leibovitz in the fine month of November. And next weekend, the New England Crimebake comes to Dedham. What more could you ask for?

If Sox fans were looking for something to get out of bed for this morning, a pair of our other local teams were ready to provide plenty of reason to go on. Monday Night Football! Bruins home opener! Who needs a World Series?

If you ever wondered if the Garden is freezing cold when there’s no ice in the rink, we can answer that question for you – it is and we’re still trying to thaw out. Last night we neglected to bring our winter coat when we attended the second annual State of the Bruins, a town hall meeting for the season ticket holders to find out what’s expected this season from the black and gold.

-- While many Bostonians remain only vaguely aware of the Bruins' playoff loss last night, at least three fans mustered enough anguish to make it to jail, police say. Last night, a celebrating Canadiens' fan found himself bleeding from the head outside the TDBanknorth Garden after allegedly being assaulted by a two-man goon squad. Police arrested the pair, one of whom was wearing a Jason Allison Bruins jersey. And, inside the Garden, a detail cop who was trying to break up a brawl between Canadiens and Bruins fans was himself allegedly assaulted. One man was arrested. [BPDNews]

On Bostonist's viral video feature, we saw a gentleman compose a song dedicated to the Bruins, and he threw in a little "pee pee dance." It was cute. But someone did a not-so-cute honest-to-goodness "pee pee dance" at TD Banknorth during the Bruins' game:

Every week, thousands of videos are uploaded to YouTube with a "Boston" tag. Bostonist is dedicated to searching through the clips of Boston Terriers and painfully off-key Augustana covers to bring you the real treasures.

We were confused when we read Dan Shaughnessy's wrap-up of Tuesday's season opener in Japan yesterday afternoon. While we agreed that the return of Red Sox baseball was "fun-filled, action-packed," it felt as Shaughnessy saw something in Japan that we missed back here in the States: title defense from the Sox and "those cardboard cutouts wearing an Oakland Athletics uniform."

Jerry Remy summed it up perfectly last night: "Both are terrible." The Rem wasn't talking about the play on display Saturday night at Petco Park in San Diego (although at times, he wouldn't have been far off), but was discussing the throwback uniforms worn by the Sox and Padres last night. Memo to both teams: burn those uniforms now. It looked as if "The Wizard of Oz" had thrown up all over Petco Park. Boston...

Props go out to Terry Francona (a man who really doesn't receive enough credit for the job he does in Boston) for his handling of the Coco Crisp situation. Crisp returned, and was immediately re-inserted into the starting lineup as the center-fielder, and lead-off hitter. But, it looks like 7th or 8 slot is most effective, with Youkilis at the top, and Francona has leveraged this. The Sox also have some interesting options from...

Well, it looks like the Sox aren’t the only Boston sports team looking to put themselves out on a limb to get some better talent. It seems that the dismal Boston Bruins have traded their sandy colored haired team captain, Joe Thornton, to the San Jose Sharks last night in a move that shocked many hockey fans. Bostonist will admit that we don’t spend enough quality time with the NHL, thus the lack of posts...

Bostonist almost forgot that we had a professional hockey team in the city. The Beanpot tournament and the arrival of our yellow pages reminded us however. We at Bostonist are always amazed at how long the winter sport of professional ice hockey is in season, it’s even longer than the NBA. With yellow pages sponsored by the Boston Bruins sitting on doorsteps and hallways all over the city we did what they said and went to the website for ticket information. There aren’t any games being played, just a screening of “Hockey’s Golden Era.” The NHL has been in a labor dispute all season long, locking out the players. The dispute has cancelled some 800 scheduled games and focused hockey fan’s attention to the minor leagues and college teams.