Tampa Bay's 5-4 win last night over the Bruins forced a seventh game in the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday at the TD Garden. The winner faces Vancouver for the Stanley Cup.
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We're all thinking about it. Even the International Business Times is talking about the Bruins being in exactly the same position they were in in 2010 - up 3-0 against the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference semifinals - before losing four straight games to get eliminated in a stunning collapse.
Two goals in the first 63 seconds of game three gave the Bruins a lead they never relinquished en route to a 5-1 win over the Flyers. For a second consecutive year, Boston has a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals. In 2010, the Flyers overcame that deficit to win the series. Zdeno Chara scored twice and assisted on a third goal. David Krejci had a goal and two assists. Nathan Horton had a goal and an assist.
David Krejci's overtime goal completed a three-goal rally as the Bruins beat the Flyers by a 3-2 score on Monday. Philly led 2-0 early in game two before the Bruins joined the game. For the second straight season, Boston leads the Flyers 2-0 in a Eastern Conference semifinal series.
As impressive as Satuday's 7-3 win over the Flyers was, please don't think ill of Bostonist if we don't get too excited just one game into the Eastern Conference semifinals. You know why.
Danny Ainge liked what he saw from the guys in green in Thursday's 112-107 beating of the Heat. He told the Herald that the Celtics mood might be even more important. He said:
The Bruins dropped consecutive games for the first time this season, losing 2-1 in a shootout to St. Louis Saturday. The Blues got a great performance from Jaroslav Halak with 33 saves on 34 shots as the ex-Canadiens goalie got his sixth straight win.
Ever since the Patriots traded Randy Moss to Minnesota, people were girding for today's game. Moss is back in town, the Pats are rolling at 5-1, it's Halloween, and Brett Favre is going to play with a broken ankle and under the close scrutiny of his wife.
So, if the Bruins need to win nine more games to capture the Stanley Cup, and lose a player for the season every game and a half...can Chara, Satan and Rask beat San Jose 3-on-6?
Well, that was a whole lot of nothin'.
With a chance to gain some ground in the Eastern Playoff race, the Bruins came up completely empty, losing 1-0 to the Panthers despite completely dominating the game. For the third period, in fact, Florida could have left their sticks on the bench, since they were making no effort to attack, focusing instead on launching their bodies in front of every Bruin pass and shot, and counting on goalie Scott Clemmensen (a BC guy) to take care of the rest.
Well, not an actual dictionary. We used the Internet. And even though Wikipedia informs us that you can't technically call it a "winning streak" until it hits three games, we're going to go ahead and award the battered Bruins the title after their second straight win.
Boston team's lost two games on Friday that both could have been won. Each team led early and then fell behind before losing in the end. Philadelphia stopped the Celtics' 11-game winning streak with a 98-97 decision. The Bruins lost to the Chicago Blackhawks, 5-4, in a shootout.
Sports-columnist convention requires us to list things we're thankful for on Thanksgiving. So let's go.
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.
Milestone Reached: Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who got his 500th Sox victory with last night's 5-1 in Detroit. Tito joins Joe Cronin and Pinky Higgins in the exclusive club of Sox managers who haven't been prematurely (or correctly) run out of town. "That means I've been really lucky with an organization with a lot of players that have been very good," said the skipper.
35 seconds. That's all that separates a decent team from (a) hanging around against the Bruins, and (b) being another notch in the team's collective hockey stick. For two periods, the Flyers hung around with the Bruins. Which was nice for them.
For all the Bruins' success this year, they hadn't figured out a way to beat Washington. The Capitals were 2-0 against our hometown heroes, and nipping (well...10 points behind) at their heels for top spot in the East.
That two-game losing streak last week? Forget it. The Bruins have found their offensive punch again, and won their second straight on a 5-1 whupping of the Whalercanes yesterday at the Garden. Tim Thomas stopped 29 shots, and the B's chased Carolina goalie early in the second, after Krejci, Yelle and Stuart had gotten past him. Michael Ryder also scored twice before the Canes popped in a meaningless goal early in the third.
Our nightmare is over. One of our floundering local wintertime teams finally broke into the win column last night, as the Bruins refound their offensive mojo and whacked the Ottawa Senators, 6-4 at the Garden last night.
In a way, it's hard to believe that only one Bruins scored a hat trick last night. But in a game of shaky defense, multiple goalie changes, and an insane amount of offense, it was David Krejci who sent headgear flying, notching his first career hat trick as the Bruins outlasted Toronto 8-5.
It wasn't one for the history books. But the Bruins, while integrating some new faces and welcoming back some old ones, got the better of Colorado and opened the 08-09 season with a 5-4 win.
We'd heard the Miami Heat were terrible. At 13-60, with Shaq traded, Wade shelved, Pat Riley having wandered off in indignity, we didn't expect a real tough game for the Celtics last night. But terrible doesn't even begin to describe this team. Miami set an NBA record for fewest field goals (17) in a shot-clock-era game, set an unofficial record for passes right to defenders, and would have only been able to climb back in the game if the scoreboard had fallen on the Celtics' bench.
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