Matt Hunwick News

Tim Thomas [ stats ] clearly didn't want to say the wrong thing. He didn't want to sound like he was whining about a lack of offensive support.

You want to talk about a turnaround? A week ago, Matt Hunwick was the subject of scrutiny, a healthy scratch for the Bruins' 7-2 win over Toronto that was no doubt influenced by defensive lapses the night before in Montreal.

Sergeant Lucas Carr's U.S. Army Ranger company may have been on the other side of the world and in the fight of their lives, but he and his fellow soldiers carried a little something from home wherever they went.

During last night's second intermission, when his players returned to the dressing room with a 3-0 lead, coach Claude Julien reminded the Bruins that the Maple Leafs weren't going to tuck their tails and whimper out of TD Garden in the third period.

The Boston Bruins host the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight at the TD Garden in Boston, MA, at 7pm EST.

The unusual four days between games allowed some of the Bruins, such as defensemen Derek Morris and Dennis Wideman , to rest their ailing bodies.

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.

Projected as a shut-down forward since he played 48 unexpectedly effective NHL games as a first-year North American pro in 2007-08, Sobotka has been thrust into a different role since suffered his second significant injury of the season last Wednesday at Minnesota.

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

On the night the Montreal Canadiens turned 100, they played like the great teams of old.

Tonight will be the sixth time that Byron Bitz serves as Marc Savard's right-hand man on the Bruins' No.

The Bruins [ team stats ] power play has looked better on the ice than it does on paper.

Any day now, possibly today, slick center Marc Savard is expected to sign his new contract with the Bruins, a seven-year extension beginning in 2010-11 with an average cap hit in the $4.5 million-$4.8 million range.

The "W'' Tim Thomas posted last night was worth 2 points in the standings, and maybe 16 ounces of flesh, too.

Assist to Milan Michalek. First shot of the night on Tim Thomas. 6:48 -- Derek Morris rings slapper off left post.

They've been referred to constantly this season as "the surprising New York Islanders ," but they haven't been a surprise at all to many of the Boston Bruins .

Patrice Bergeron scored with 47 seconds into overtime, lifting the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night.

The 2-0 second-period lead? Gone. The 3-2 advantage with less than a minute remaining in regulation? Wiped out, thanks to a Maxim Afinogenov goal at 19:18. But unlike other games in which the woe-is-us Bruins tucked their tails when adversity approached, the Black-and-Gold bunch decided last night against the Atlanta Thrashers that they were fed up ...

Good morning from the aged Igloo, where tonight the Bruins will take on the defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins for the second time in five days.

The Bruins, who wiped out a 1-0 deficit when David Krejci set up Daniel Paille for a second-period goal, were less than two minutes away from entering the second intermission tied at 1-1 against the Islanders last night.