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David Backes set to face his ex-team in Stanley Cup Final
May 24, 2019
The Boston Bruins are near the end of their 11-day layoff leading up to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. In the midst of their near two-week break, they found out who they’ll face. It’s a team that David Backes is quite familiar with. The St. Louis Blues, a few days removed from their […]
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What we learned from the Bruins’ intrasquad scrimmage
May 23, 2019
Bruce Cassidy needed to think outside of the box as the Bruins embarked on an 11-day layoff following their sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes a week ago Thursday. He talked to Bill Belichick, Brad Stevens and Alex Cora — his fellow coaching peers in Boston to get an idea on how to handle a lengthy […]
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Patrice Bergeron cements his status as a Boston icon
May 22, 2019
Boston has a plethora of riches when it comes to its sports teams. The four professional sports franchises graced the city in riches with 18 championship appearances and 11 title parades since 2001. A handful of professional athletes, including Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Pedro Martinez, Tuukka Rask and Zdeno Chara, led […]
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Intrasquad scrimmage presents the Bruins with a unique opportunity
May 21, 2019
The Boston Bruins are in rare territory. They’re in midst of their longest layoff of the season after clinching their third Stanley Cup berth of the decade. Bruce Cassidy‘s squad punched its ticket to the Stanley Cup Finals on May 16 following a 4-0 victory in Raleigh to complete the sweep of the Hurricanes. The […]
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Bruce Cassidy’s Stanley Cup Final journey was a long time coming
May 20, 2019
Bruce Cassidy is a long way from his first NHL coaching tenure in Washington. His brief two-year stint behind the Capitals bench had its share of ups and downs in the nation’s capital. The team’s return to the playoffs in 2003 was quickly wiped away one year later when Cassidy fell way to a hostile […]
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The challenges and opportunities of the Bruins’ long layoff
May 19, 2019
Eleven days. It’s a long time between any hockey game, let alone a timeframe between the Round 3 finale and Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Boston Bruins took two of those 11 days off following their sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes Thursday night in Raleigh. They returned to the Warrior Ice Arena […]
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How Don Sweeney built the 2018-19 Bruins
May 18, 2019
Don Sweeney didn’t inherit an ideal scenario from his predecessor, Peter Chiarelli. The fourth-year Boston general manager knew success wouldn’t come overnight. And he hit plenty of speed bumps along the way. “We tried to do some things, call it on the fly, deepen the prospect pool integrate younger players, all the things we talk […]
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What we learned: Bruins are Cup Final bound
May 17, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Boston Bruins didn’t need to weather a storm against a desperate Carolina Hurricanes bunch in Game 4. They created one instead. Bruce Cassidy’s bunch displayed a killer instinct without captain Zdeno Chara (undisclosed injury). Everyone stepped up in his absence, including the Ol’ Reliables. David Pastrnak and Patrice Bergeron’s second period […]
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Bruins aiming to stop one more surge from desperate Hurricanes
May 16, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s been a little while since the Bruins held a commanding three games to none series lead. You have to go back all the way to 2013 against Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals for the last time they entered that scenario. The Bruins finished the job in their […]
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What we learned: Bruins weather Hurricanes again in Game 3
May 15, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Boston Bruins needed to weather a storm before finding their legs in Game 3. But the opening surge from the desperate Carolina Hurricanes collided with a brick wall between the pipes. Tuukka Rask singlehandedly downgraded the Hurricanes surge to a tropical storm after 20 first period saves. The Bruins then went […]
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