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.
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Bruins fans gave their team a glorious send-off from the TD Garden as the team headed to Vancouver for game one of the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday at the Rogers Centre. The crowd chanted "We Want The Cup!" and wore their colors proudly. Patrice Bergeron was proud of his team and was happy for the team's loyal fans.
After 40 games, the Red Sox reached the .500 mark, 20-20, by completing a sweep of the Yankees with a 7-5 Sunday night victory.
While the revelers who packed the TD Garden for the Bruins' redemptive sweep over the Flyers went home happy after the win clinched a berth Eastern Conference finals, they woke up to a reality check delivered by general manager Peter Chiarelli: Patrice Bergeron suffered a concussion in the third period on a hit from Flyers forward Claude Giroux. Bergeron has two prior concussions, one of which benched him for the entire 2007-08 season.
So much for a winning streak. The Bruins returned to their losing ways just two days after stopping a four-game winless stretch in Columbus with a 4-3 loss in overtime against Nashville on Thursday.
Last night's Bruins-Stars hockey game, won by Boston, 6-4, was an affair made for long-suffering fans of the Black and Gold. Bostonist, like Mike Milbury, can't remember seeing a Bruins game start like that ever: three fights in four seconds followed by two quick goals in the first 2:00 for the good guys.
Here's the world's worst idea for a drinking game, NHL-style: Drink every time you hear the word "concussion." Were you to undertake this ridiculous idea (seriously, don't do it), you'd be on the floor with the room spinning before Rene Rancourt begins his post-anthem fist pump on the Garden Ice.
The Celtics completely dominated Philadelphia before surviving an encounter with the Nets, 96-92, after a Marquis Daniels three-pointer and two Nate Robinson free throws. Two wins in pretend games against two "teams" won't mean much in May.
However and whenever the Bruins season ends, whether it's with unexpected glory or a quick thumping by the Capitals (if not before), they can take last night's game with them as a reminder that they can be something special, and they can find that certain something within to keep them going. If you want to play an '80s-style montage for the B's, this would be the time.
The Celtics AND the Bruins? Both winning in solid fashion against inferior opponents on consecutive nights? Has the world turned upside-down?
Offensive struggles? What offensive struggles?
Ulf Samuelsson. Bill Laimbeer. Bernard Pollard. And now, Matt Cooke?
Maybe the Bruins didn't make any world-shattering moves at the trading deadline. But it seems like they pulled their ace goalie back from the brink of irrelevancy, and that might be enough to get them over the hump.
There's much that can - can, has and will - be said today by proponents and opponents alike when it comes to Boston's newest corner infielder, Adrian Beltre. What it all really comes down to, however, is the fact that the names and faces that will make up your 2010 Boston Red Sox roster sure are different than the team fans saw walk off the field in shock when their reason ended abruptly back in October.
One team's up, one team's down. One team is charging into the new year even with injuries, one has two stars out and is floundering. Our whole city is Even Steven today.
Things were going to be different once Milan Lucic and Marc Savard were able to suit up again. When injury claimed not one, but two of the Bruins' game-making talents, objectives changed a bit. Winning games would be great, but keeping things in relatively working order until Looch and Savvy got back (and got things going) would be pretty acceptable.
For the second straight game, the Boston Bruins needed overtime to secure a road victory. For the second straight game, Patrice Bergeron delivered with a game-winning score. Bergeron, who buried a shootout chance and Atlanta on Thursday, beat Buffalo's Ryan Miller 0:47 into overtime, thanks to Zdeno Chara and Marco Sturm, to lift the Bruins to a 2-1 win.
Milan Lucic tied the game at 1-1 with his first goal since April 2, according to NESN. Byron Bitz combined with Lucic and Tuukka Rask, who got his first career assist, on the end-to-end highlight-reel rush. Lucic and Bitz, a pair that had a solid outing, couldn't score on a similar play in the third. Rask had 25 saves.
Did you spend all day yesterday watching the rain pour down and hoping that at least things would end well with a Celtic/Bruin doubleheader? If you did, you probably wished you'd gone out and stood in the rain all day instead; you'd feel about the same.
It's one point. A shootout loss. One goal. The Bruins will gratefully take it right now. With the offense struggling to even find the goal, let alone put the puck in it, and with swine flu racing towards the team, it's time to think about baby steps.
Eleven games, and for better and worse, the Bruins still haven't been able to put together a two-game streak of any kind. They had a chance last night, and played pretty well, but came away short with a 2-1 loss to the Devils. "This is one of those nights throughout the course of a season where you lose a hockey game only because the other team got one extra bounce going their way," said Coach Claude Julien.
But that's kind of a big deal, since it matches their season high. The "team goes up...team goes down" Bruins survived a tough beginning to come back and win in a shootout in Ottawa last night, 4-3.
Well, the Red Sox are officially on a roll. They're preparing for the playoffs by being swept twice in a row. And they did it with style last night, serving up another round of meatball sandwiches to give their guests from Toronto an 11-0 win.
OK. It's oooookaaaaay. So maybe we thought that Doc Rivers' "stay the course" message meant something a little different. We all took it as sticking with a formula that has found success during much of this Celtics season-in-progress.
Well, the Patriots did their part. On a snowy nasty day in Foxboro, the Pats did all they could to help the Cardinals get back to the airport and back to sunny Phoenix in record time, pasting Arizona 47-7 and allowing them to have the buses warming up at halftime. Matt Cassel threw for 345 yards, Lamont Jordan ran in two scores, and the Pats pulled everything shy of the Flutie drop kick to embarrass the NFC West "champs".
Well, the Bruins won. That shouldn't be a surprise - after all, they've won 18 of their last 21, and 13 in a row at home. Phil Kessel had an assist - another non-surprise, as he's notched a point in 17 straight games (he also had a goal waved off because of a high stick). That's the good part.
"We want to be greedy," said Claude Julien. And why not? After successively blanking the Oilers and the Canucks on 1-0 scored, the Bruins were hungry and ready to go for the Western Canadian sweep in Calgary. And when Patrice Bergeron caught Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff out of position for the quick 1-0 lead, Coach Julien's green looked like it might be rewarded.