4-2 Columbus Over Bruins: Bruins "Work" On Their Penalty Kill

Bruins received 6 penalties in their lost tonight against Columbus.

WAY to many penalties taken tonight. Zach Hamil was responsible for 2 of them. Just bad penalties you can be taking. You're not going to win games giving that many PP opportunities.

Rask looked pretty sharp despite the score. As I've already mentioned, to many PPs and to many odd man rushes against the Bruins. The D (mainly Ference) left Rask out to dry several times. Columbus was all over the front of our net free to do whatever they'd like. Hunwick looked off his game again, he'll probably be replaced by Boychuk for at least the first couple of month while he finds his game in Providence.

Lucic played an awesome game tonight on his line with Ryder and Savard. Made a few good passes, playing the boards well, defensively sound, overall excellent game.

Thorton got in a rumble Jarad Boll and Chuck Kobasew mixed it up with Michael Bluden, after a collision with Rask. The collision with Rask deffenitly wasn't intentional, but it's nice to see the team keeping an eye on their goaltender.

This raps up the pre-season for the Bruins, giving us 4 days of rest till opening game. Which I will be at. I'll be posting my Fantasy Team Lineup and the first day of my player analysis tomorrow.

In the mean time...

Go B's!

2-1 Bruins Over Montreal: Rask Beasts It. Suave Heads Back To Juniors.

The Bruins beat Montreal last night despite the lack of news coverage from Boston.com. Not a single line was written regarding the 2-1 victory over Montreal. You would think they would at least post a pre-game roster. It's not like they're in our division or our rivals or anything. It doesn't help that it wasn't televised either. From the sounds of things, Rask tore it up stopping 25 of 26. Nice to know there is a solid backup for Timmy Beast this year. TSN did provide some highlights, you can check them out and the breakdown of the game here.

Max Suave got sent back to his Junior team, Val-d'Or . Pretty surprising to see that the Bruins didn't even let him finish training camp. Also surprising that he is only in Juniors. He showed some real skill, hope they assign him to Providence to give him a chance at the NHL.

Roster is up for tomorrows game. No Thomas or Chara in the lineup. I feel like we're getting a little close to crunch time and we should start getting the starters in shape. Especially the defense. Drew Feta and Andy Wozniewski? Come on. Neither of them will make the team.

Speaking of Wozniewski, here is a pretty funny clip involving him.

Also, check out "Break In Bear". Hilarious!

Go Bruins!

2 - 1 Bruins over Rangers: Fluto Jinxed It

Bruins played their first pre-season game tonight against the Gomez-less New York Rangers. It's a shame it wasn't televised as I would have liked to see Tukka make 31 saves. Unfortunately, Fluto Shinzawa, writer for the Boston Globe, jinxed the possible shutout with this comment:

"* Tuukka Rask is 20 minutes away from blanking the Rangers."

Typical.

As it wasn't televised, it's tough to analyze the game in it's entirety but it's nice to hear that Sturm is getting involved with an assist. Also nice to hear about the Power Play starting on the right foot after the atrocious show they put on in the Carolina series.

Speaking of starting off on the right foot, NHL.com has once again proven they know EVERYTHING about hockey. Including that Marc Savard was playing in tonight's pre-season game opener when he scored the second goal for the Bruins. Wait...thats right...Marc Savard didn't play tonight, it was Max Suave who scored the second goal. Close enough I suppose. Way to go NHL.com. In other NHL.com news, it is reported that an 'Unknown' player scored the first goal for St. Louis in their game tonight against the Minnesota Wild. An APB is out on the unknown player.

NHL.com did decide to provide us with some photo's from tonights Bruins game which is pretty cool.

Rangers vs. Bruins Pre-Season Game 1 Photos

TSN also provided some highlights...minus the first Bruins goal.

Rangers vs Bruins Highlights (Right side of the page)

I'll be heading to practice tomorrow in Wilmington which will feature all players listed in the Boston.com posted roster.

Training Camp Roster

Would have been nice to know who is in Group A or B...

Go Bruins!