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Derek Morris has his game-time play list, the stuff he'll play in the Bruins locker room for the rest of the guys.

With every save he makes in Black and Gold , Tuukka Rask makes the bile in the Maple Leafs' mouth taste even more acrid.

Phil Kessel returns to Boston for the second time in less than a week. He only can hope it goes better than his initial return Saturday night.

It looked almost like a youngsters Hockey camp yesterday for the Bruins at Ristuccia Arena.

In the third period of Saturday night's 7-2 win over Toronto, the Bruins' Andrew Ference saw Lee Stempniak throw a questionable hit on Johnny Boychuk.

Little did the 25-year-old defenseman know, but his night was just beginning. "Oh, geez, I think I talked on the phone until about 12:30 ," Boychuk said.

This was not the first time in the last century that the Bruins [ team stats ] played a game like this against the Canadiens.

Given that the price was draft picks, it possibly will be years before the Bruins know what value they ultimately have in the trade that sent Phil Kessel out of town.

Marc Savard scored three goals and the Bruins and their raucous fans ruined Phil Kessel's return to Boston with a 7-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.

They allowed 10 power-play goals in the first seven games as the team went an uninspiring 3-4. But before the "why did they ever let P.J. Axelsson and Stephane Yelle go" lament could gain traction, the B's suddenly snapped out of it.

Marc Savard, centre, celebrates a Boston goal with Derek Morris, left, and Michael Ryder.

The Wild have never been a kind opponent for the Bruins. Entering last night, the Bruins were 1-8-0 against the Wild since the franchise was introduced to the NHL in 2000-01. By employing former coach Jacques Lemaire's neutral-zone trap, the Wild had seemingly always stifled the Bruins and prevented them from getting good looks on their netminders.

The Bruins closed out a perfect four-game trip by beating Minnesota for just the second time in 10 tries in team history despite managing a season-low 16 shots.

The not-quite-ready-for-regulation-time Bruins played into overtime again yesterday - for the fourth time in five games - and their payoff was a 2-1 shootout loss to the Devils that ended Boston's season-high four-game winning streak.

Shootout GOAL scored by Patrice Bergeron on Niklas Backstrom Shootout GOAL scored by Mikko Koivu on Tuukka Rask Shootout attempt by Blake Wheeler SAVED by Niklas Backstrom Shootout attempt by Marek Zidlicky SAVED by Tuukka Rask Shootout attempt by Marc Savard SAVED by Niklas Backstrom Shootout attempt by Eric Belanger SAVED by Tuukka Rask Shootout ...

Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask continues to impress -- now 7-2-1 on the season. deadspin.com The Bruins were outshot 29-16, and it took them over 65 minutes of play, but prevailed to take out the Minnesota Wild in a lackluster performance at the Xcel Energy Center last night.

David Krejci notched the winner in the fourth round of the shootout as Boston edged Minnesota, 2-1, at Xcel Energy Center.

For a while, it was just a fluke, an anomaly, something to occupy the idle autumn minds of Hockey fans.

The planets couldn't have aligned any better for Bruins center Marc Savard , who this week is expected to sign a lucrative long-term extension that could tie him up for seven more years at a cost of about $32 million, according to The Boston Globe.

The flu, which has become a 30th opponent for the Bruins and most other NHL teams this season, continues to make itself an unwelcome visitor in the Boston clubhouse.