Yes, the Bruins lost the season opener last night. But, hey, they put the banner up! How cool is that? Still a great night. And, of course, it's always a good night if Bobby Orr shows up. Enjoy the gratuitous banner shots.
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The Bruins ended the 2010-2011 season with a win and began the 2011-2012 season with a 2-1 loss to Philadelphia last night. The evening was also a production of the team's coronation as Stanley Cup. A firetruck brought the Cup to the Garden through a gauntlet of uniformed police, firefighters, and soldiers. The players brought the Cup to the ice and raised the new banner with help from Bruins' legends like Bobby Orr, Derek Sanderson, and Milt Schmidt.
The Bruins won the banner raised tonight in June. Watertown-based New England Flag & Banner made it. [Boston Herald] Cam Neely and Charlie Jacobs brought the Stanley Cup to Beacon Hill today. We think the Cup is taller than Governor Deval Patrick. [Boston Herald] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The Bruins are back tonight less than four months after winning the Stanley Cup and bringing it back to Boston. The summer-long Cup fun is over, the players got their much-earned rings - 505 people got rings, even Tomas Kaberle, we think - that are almost as big as the Cup. Okay, not quite.
The Red Sox have begun the post-choke era on Thursday. Call it Heimlich Day. Terry Francona and Theo Epstein eulogized the team's total collapse of 2011 with some blunt comments to try and explain the 7-20, uhhh, effort in September. They started with themselves. "This year, we weren't at our best," Theo said. "I can say that about myself. Tito and I talked about it and I think he'd say the same about himself." He also said part of the post-choke analysis requires management to evaluate themselves to see if they should stay in their current jobs.
Four Westford Academy students were infected with MRSA and staph infections. [WCVB] Prosecutors may bring additional charges against Whitey Bulger's girlfriend, Catherine Greig. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Bostonist was rooting for a rain out Friday night. Have you ever seen a team more in need of an extra day away from baseball than your 2011 Red Sox? Seriously. We said on Friday we expected - hoped, really - Boston to be ready to take on New York for one last time this season especially because they're 6-0 in the Bronx this season. A two-day break before fighting to preserve a playoff spot should be a good thing.That's what we think, anyway.
Tom Brady, to the surprise of nobody, was named AFC offensive player of the week for the second week in a row. Brady, of course, deferred credit to the entire Patriots offense. Starting center Dan Koppen highlights a slew of injuries for the team. Koppen's broken fibula earned him a season-ending spot on injured reserve despite a slight chance he could return late in the season.
Fourteen games remain in 2011 regular season and the Red Sox lead the Tampa Bay Rays, in town for four games, by four in the A.L. Wild Card race after a 5-4 loss to Toronto last night. If you thought Tuesday's rout of the Blue Jays ended their September skid, well think again. Yesterday, the Bruins finally signed Brad Marchand, the pesky rookie who developed into legit goal-scoring in the team's Cup-winning playoff run, to a two-year, $5 million contract.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft is ready for some football. “Thank God for NFL football," he said after a tumultuous offseason in which his beloved wife, Myra Kraft, died. The entirety of Patriots fandom might say the same thing without having as significant a reason why. We have another matter of hours until the Pats open the season tonight in Miami so the anticipation has more time to build on already high expectations after another unsatisfying playoff exit earlier this year followed a 14-2 regular season. Bill Belichick reloaded with two high-profile players, Chad Ochocinco and Albert Haynesworth, who you'd think didn't fit with his style. He did manage to keep 18 undrafted players on the 53-man roster, the third most in the NFL.
The Red Sox responded to a two-game mini-slump with a resoundingly one-sided 14-0 victory last night against the Blue Jays. Boston scored early and often with four runs in the first inning and 10 runs off of Toronto starter Luis Perez, who lasted just 2.2 innings. Boston pounded the Jays for 20 hits. David Ortiz and Marco Scutaro combined for an 8-11 performance with six RBI and five RBI. Scutaro was 4-5 (three doubles) with four RBI.
With 45,000 residents without power five days after Hurricane Irene, Attorney General Martha Coakley wants answers and the truth from utility companies regarding what preparations they took before the stormhas sent a letter to National Grid, NStar and the other big utilities asking them to explain how they prepared for the forecasted emergency. [WCVB] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
With a late August hurricane looming, it's time to talk hockey. Perhaps you heard that the Boston Bruins had the Cup in Michigan yesterday and takes it to the University of Vermont on September 3. He's even now been turned into a corn field maze at Sherman Farm in East Conway, New Hampshire. It opens to the public on September 17. $9.
Marc Savard wasn't on the ice for the Bruins ride to winning the Stanley Cup, but he stilll got his day with the Cup on Monday and shared it with hockey fans in Peterborough. "Unfortunately I didn't get to play much, obviously, in the playoffs, but it's been a great ride," he said. "I'm glad because the guys still made me feel part of it." The Bruins want Savard's name engraved on the trophy, too, eventhough he played only 25 games all season due to post concussion syndrome.
The Red Sox gave Baltimore a rude welcome with a barrage of six home runs and 13 hits on Thursday and took over first place in the A.L. East with a 10-4 victory. Dustin Pedroia belted a three-run homer in the third, Adrian Gonzalez homered in the fifth inning, and Jacoby Ellsbury drove in two with a home run in the sixth inning. In the seventh inning, David Ortiz, Josh Reddick, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit consecutive home runs.
The Red Sox 3-2 win over Toronto yesterday gets second billing to a developing issue with some suddenly fragile strting pitching corps. With Clay Buchholz getting his ailing lower back examined today and John Lackey in the midst of a disaster of a season, the Sox don't need to add an injured Jon Lester to the mix. Lester pitched quite well, briefly, until a strained lat sidelined him after four innings. He allowed no runs and no hits, and struckout five batters.
Boston scored six runs in the seventh inning to take a 7-5 lead, a score that ended up being the final in the win over Houston on Friday. Dustin Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez each drove in two runs on a single and a double, respectively. Josh Reddick and Drew Sutton each added one RBI. The Red Sox have won two straight games after a 1-6 stretch.
President Obama and his family will spend 7-10 days on Martha’s Vineyard in August for a family vacation. It'll be the family's third straight summer vacation on the island. [Boston Globe] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The newest of Boston's starters salvaged the Red Sox only win in their last five starts as Sunday's game in Pittsburgh went in the visitors favor by a 4-2 score. Andrew Miller (1-0) pitched six innings and allowed two runs on five hits for his first win in a Red Sox uniform. The Red Sox bullpen held the Pirates scoreless for three innings. Alfredo Aceves, Daniel Bard, and Jonathan Papelbon also didn't allow a hit. Paplebon eared his 14th save.
Nearly flawless pitching was necessary as Boston's offense was unproductive once more. They mustered six hits, but benefited from four Pittsburgh errors and two sacrifice flies.
While the Bruins of the Bobby Orr era knew how to enjoy themselves, it looks like the current, 2011 Stanley Cup champions are equally adept in that regard as well. The Bruins, in the midst of an ongoing celebration of the team's first Stanley Cup victory in 39 years, amassed a staggering bar tab of $156,679.74 on Saturday night at Shrine nightclub at Foxwoods. They earned every cent of that bill, even the $100,000.00 bottle of Ace of Spades "Midas" champagne.
Bruins fans didn't stop celebrating the Stanley Cup victory on Sunday just because the rolling rally was on Saturday. In this case, Bruins pride goes hand-in-hand with patriotism. Notice the Zdeno Chara shirt adorning a black truck.
Hockey season is officially over. Tim Thomas has shaved his beard. Thomas was the last of Bruins to shave his face afer winning the Stanley Cup. He kept the mustache and his visage now has a very 70's vibe to it.
Bruins fans, not to mention players, drank in the winning of the Stanley Cup with a display of euphoria previously unimagined in Boston.
Jon Lester allowed three home runs, including two in the first inning, as Milwaukee secured a 4-2 victory over the Red Sox (42-28) on Saturday. Saturday brought more bad news for Boston. Carl Crawford gets to spend 15 days on the disabled list after he strained his left hamstring Friday.
The Bruins rolling Stanley Cup rally drew over 1 million fans to Boston. The Cup was on display, along with every player who helped along the way to winning it. Bruins fans were everywhere, in black and gold, to cheer them on.
Bruins. Duck boats. Saturday. The Stanley Cup visited Boston today. There was a roof-top party in the North End and a visit to Tia's in a baby carriage pushed by Andrew Ference. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The Stanley Cup is back in Boston today along with those who won it. The Bruins were met at the TD Garden this morning by a small yet enthusiatic group of loyalists. A larger group of fans will assemble on Saturday for the heavily anticipated parade now scheduled for 11 a.m. and running from TD Garden to Copley Plaza. An even larger group of people watched game seven on NBC as the game tied the highest-rated game seven between the New Jersey and Anaheim in 2003.
You wanted to know what happened if the Bruins scored first in the Vancouver Cancucks rink? Right? Bostonist certainly did. What happened was the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1972 by shutting out the Cancucks, 4-0, behind two goals, each, from Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron. Tim Thomas won the Conn Smythe trophy as MVP with another great game. He had 37 saves.
Bruins fans are ready for tonight's seventh game in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final and so is Boston. Wherever you watch it, look for both teams to go right after each other. We'd love to see the Bruins score early on Roberto Luongo to see how he responds to trailing at home. Tim Thomas has been pretty consistent. Luongo has been great in Vancouver only. That's the ecisive issue tonight.
The Red Sox winning streak ended at nine games with a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay last night. They've lost all three games with the Rays this season. That streak lives.