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				<title><![CDATA[Bergeron scores in OT as Bruins beat Sabres 2-1]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[BUFFALO, N.Y.(AP) -- It had been over three years since Patrice
Bergeron scored an overtime goal. The one he netted on Friday
night could turn into a rallying point for the Boston Bruins.

Bergeron scored 47 seconds into the extra period to give the
Bruins a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres.

The Bruins won their second straight game, only the second time
this season they've produced a winning streak. This one moved
Boston within two points of first-place Buffalo in the Northeast
Division.

"It's always disappointing losing ground," Buffalo coach Lindy
Ruff said. "They've been playing real well and getting some
healthy bodies back. They're playing a lot better."

Before tipping Zdeno Chara's shot past goalie Ryan Miller,
Bergeron won a faceoff against Tim Connolly and got into the
slot.

"That's not really a set play," said Bergeron, who last scored
in overtime on Nov. 16, 2006 against Toronto. "You win the
faceoff and go to the net. Especially in a 4-on-4, there's more
room."

Chara's drive made it all possible.

"So much depends on controlling the puck and controlling the
play," the big defenseman said. "I tried to find a lane and
wrist it to the net. It's a really innocent, simple play, but
those make a big difference."

Milan Lucic, who returned to the Boston lineup on Thursday after
missing 14 games with a broken finger, scored his first of the
season. Paul Gaustad tallied for Buffalo, which has lost two
straight.

Buffalo outshot Boston 15-6 in the third period and had several
good chances to take a lead against goalie Tuukka Rask, who made
his third straight start.

Rask stopped 25 shots, including a point-blank save on Thomas
Vanek 3 minutes into the third, and a blocker stop on Jochen
Hecht's snap shot from the left circle with about 4 minutes
remaining.

"Every game, (Rask) has gotten better and better," Boston coach
Claude Julien said. "We're in real good shape there, when you've
got a young goalie like him coming up big for us."

Miller made 24 saves, including 14 in the second period.

Gaustad opened the scoring 4:20 into the first period, parking
himself in the slot and tipping in Jason Pominville's shot from
the blue line.

It just wasn't enough offense.

"We got as many shots as we could," Gaustad said. "Some of them
didn't go in."

Lucic converted a 2-on-1, give-and-go with Byron Bitz midway
through the second period to tie the game. Bitz delivered a
perfect cross-ice pass to Lucic, who was charging in from the
left.

"I'm relieved. It took a little longer than I hoped (to score
the first goal)," Lucic said. "We can't be satisfied with what
we've done these last few games. We have to keep pushing forward
and wanting it more."

Buffalo played most of the game without Drew Stafford, who is
tied for the team lead with six goals. He skated off gingerly
midway through the first period and didn't return. Ruff
described Stafford's injury as a lower body bone bruise, and
said the winger would miss Saturday's game at Ottawa.

NOTES: Buffalo and Boston have played only four games apiece
against Northeast Division opponents. ... The Sabres had won
four straight at home against the Bruins. ... Buffalo D Toni
Lydman played in his first game since Oct. 21. ... Rask's
starting streak is the longest of his 13-game NHL career. ...
Boston is halfway through its four-game road trip, which
continues with games at St. Louis and Minnesota on Monday and
Wednesday.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:10:40 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bruins-Sabres Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By MATT BEARDMORE
STATS Writer

Boston (8-8-4) at Buffalo (12-5-1), 7:30 p.m. EDT

The Buffalo Sabres are trying to get back on track following one
of their worst defensive efforts of the season.

Facing the Boston Bruins at HSBC Arena on Friday night could be
exactly what the Sabres need.

Buffalo looks for its fifth straight win at home against the
Bruins, who are coming off their first shootout victory in
nearly a month.

In search of their third four-game winning streak of the season,
the Northeast Division-leading Sabres (12-5-1) fell to visiting
Florida 6-2 on Wednesday.

It was the most goals allowed by Buffalo this season.

"They just played boring until they got a lead and then they
played more boring," Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller said after
yielding a season-high five scores. "You have to be willing to
get it deep and just be boring yourself. It was one of those
nights where everything we seem to do kind of went against us."

Buffalo, though, is 12-1-2 at home against Boston since the
beginning of the 2005-06 season.

Miller, among the league leaders with a 1.97 goals-against
average, is 10-1-2 with a 2.11 GAA in 13 career home starts
versus the Bruins.

Miller did not play in the 4-2 loss in Boston on Nov. 7. Rookie
Jhonas Enroth stopped 33 shots in his NHL debut.

Backup Tuukka Rask made 28 saves for the Bruins, who snapped a
three-game slide with that victory.

Starting for reigning Vezina Trophy winner Tim Thomas, who was
sidelined with an undisclosed injury, Rask stopped 32 shots
through overtime and all three in the shootout in Thursday's 4-3
victory over Atlanta.

Since Patrice Bergeron scored the only shootout goal in a 4-3
victory at Ottawa on Oct. 24, Boston (9-8-4) had lost its
previous three games that went past regulation.

"We have lost several games in shootouts," Rask said. "We wanted
to make sure that didn't happen again."

Bergeron scored the only shootout goal against the Thrashers
after the Bruins lost a 3-2 lead in the final minute of
regulation. With Atlanta using an extra skater, Maxim Afinogenov
tallied the game-tying goal with 41.4 seconds left.

"That goal at the end could have been a killer," Bruins coach
Claude Julien said. "But our guys decided that we weren't going
to allow that to be the winner."

While Boston continues its four-game trip with Milan Lucic back
in the lineup after being out 14 games with a broken finger and
center Marc Savard possibly getting close to returning after
missing the past 13 games with a broken left foot, Sabres coach
Lindy Ruff is expecting his top two scorers to be on the ice
Friday.

Centers Tim Connolly, who leads Buffalo with 12 assists and 16
points, and Derek Roy, who scored in Boston earlier this month,
did not practice Thursday.

"The indications are that they should be ready to play," Ruff
said. "It's just more of giving them an extra day."

Sabres forward Thomas Vanek looks to extend his point streak to
five after recording a season-high two assists Wednesday.

Boston's Michael Ryder had his first multigoal game of the
season Thursday. He has found the back of the net three times in
the last three games after scoring three goals in his first 18
games this season.

Boston's last win in Buffalo was 3-2 in a shootout on Feb. 8,
2008.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:38:42 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bergeron's shootout goal gives Bruins 4-3 win]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[BY PAUL NEWBERRY
AP Sports Writer

ATLANTA(AP) -- The Boston Bruins finally figured out how to win a
game after 60 minutes were up.

Patrice Bergeron had the only goal of the shootout after Michael
Ryder scored twice in regulation, lifting Boston to a 4-3
victory over Atlanta that snapped the Thrashers' four-game
winning streak Thursday night.

Boston halted a three-game slide, which included an overtime
loss and another that went to a shootout.

"We have lost several games in shootouts," Bruins goalie Tuukka
Rask said. "We wanted to make sure that didn't happen again."

Rask did his part by turning aside all three Atlanta shooter:
Rich Peverley, Slava Kozlov and Ilya Kovalchuk. Bergeron scored
on Boston's opening attempt, faking Ondrej Pavelec completely
out of position and stuffing the puck into an open net.

"We knew we had to turn it around somehow," said Ryder, who
scored in the first and second periods. "We did a great job of
back-checking."

The Bruins were closing in on a regulation win, leading 3-2 when
Atlanta pulled Pavelec for the extra skater. The Thrashers
picked up a point when Maxim Afinogenov scored with 41.4 seconds
remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime.

Kovalchuk, who had already scored his 13th goal in 12 games,
managed to keep it in the Boston zone, wheeled around and
whipped a cross-ice pass to Afinogenov, the puck just missing
the stick of flailing Bruins defender.

Afinogenov had time to settle the puck and rip a shot past Rask,
just inside the far post for his eighth goal of the season.
Afinogenov pumped his right fist and was knocked to ice by an
exuberant Kovalchuk.

"He just, like, lifted me off the ice and we fell down
together," Afinogenov said. "That was nice."

The Thrashers had the best chances in overtime but couldn't beat
Rask. Ditto for the shootout.

"That goal at the end could have been a killer," Bruins coach
Claude Julien said. "But our guys decided that we weren't going
to allow that to be the winner. Tuukka Rask came up big in the
shootout."

The Bruins jumped ahead 2-0 in the opening period. Marco Sturm
deflected in a shot by Mark Recchi and Ryder added to the lead
with less than 2 minutes remaining, beating Pavelec with a wrist
shot from the left circle.

The Thrashers stormed back in the second. Nik Antropov
redirected a shot from Tobias Enstrom past Rask for his first
goal of the season. Before that, Antropov had 16 points in 17
games - all with assists.

Then there's Kovalchuk, who's all about goals. He tied the game
at 2 with a perfectly placed shot into the upper left corner off
a pass from Enstrom, who picked up his second assist.

Boston, which had the league's worst-rated power play, finally
came through with Peverley off for hooking. Ryder scored his
second goal of the night and sixth of the season, pushing the
Bruins back to a 3-2 lead.

David Krejci passed out from behind the net and Ryder beat
Pavelec from a sharp angle, the puck apparently nicking
Thrashers defenseman Zach Bogosian on its way in.

"We did get a point. We battled back," Bogosian said. "It's not
the outcome we wanted, but we got a point out of it. That's kind
of a positive."

NOTES: Atlanta has lost seven straight to the Bruins. ... Boston
was bolstered by the return of Milan Lucic, who missed 14 games
because of a broken finger. Boston was still missing another
top-line forward, Marc Savard, who is close to returning from a
broken foot. ... Rask started in goal over Tim Thomas, who was
suffering from what the Bruins described as "an undisclosed
injury but short term."]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:56:34 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Lucic returns to Boston lineup]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA(AP) -- Milan Lucic was back in the Boston Bruins' lineup
after missing 14 games because of a broken finger.

Lucic was hurt in an Oct. 16 game against Dallas and underwent
surgery two days later. He rejoined the Bruins for their
Thursday night contest against Atlanta.

The left wing had three assists in six games before he was
injured.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:12:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bruins-Thrashers Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By MIKE LIPKA
STATS Writer

Boston (8-8-4) at Atlanta (10-6-1), 7:00 p.m. EDT

The Boston Bruins appear in desperate need of a boost as they
try to snap a three-game skid, and they may get it with two key
players perhaps ready to return to action.

The Atlanta Thrashers, meanwhile, would prefer to keep things
just as they are.

The Thrashers look for a fifth straight victory Thursday night
as they host the struggling Bruins, who are hoping to have
either Milan Lucic or Marc Savard - or both - back in the
lineup.

Boston (8-8-4) has looked surprisingly mediocre this season
after earning the Eastern Conference's top seed in 2008-09, and
part of the problem has been the extended absences of two
top-line forwards.

But both Savard (broken foot) and Lucic (broken finger) have
returned to the ice and could play as soon as Thursday, with the
gritty Lucic appearing a bit more likely to play than Savard.

"It's still going to be a game-time decision if I play or not,"
Lucic told the Bruins' official Web site. "... I got that
mobility back. It's still not at 100 percent but it's almost to
100 percent, so now I am just working on trying to get my
strength back."

The Bruins failed to score more than one goal for the ninth time
Monday in a 4-1 loss to the New York Islanders. Boston again had
problems on the power play, going 0 for 4 to fall to a
league-worst 12.9 percent in that category.

The Bruins converted 23.6 percent last season to tie for fourth,
and they never lost more than four straight - something they'll
try to avoid Thursday.

A good penalty kill has helped keep Boston competitive, not
giving up a power-play goal in six straight games and one in the
last 13.

Still, the Bruins have slipped defensively after leading the NHL
with a 2.32 goals-against average last season. Their last two
opponents have scored 10 goals after the team allowed a total of
seven in the previous seven games.

"Those little details that meant so much to us being successful
aren't consistent right now," coach Claude Julien said. "There's
not that confidence or determination we need to be successful.
Right now we have to have our best players playing their best if
we're going to turn it around."

Their task likely won't get any easier against the high-scoring
Thrashers, who rank second in the NHL with 3.65 goals per game,
totaling 17 during their four-game winning streak.

After Friday's 7-0 drubbing of Los Angeles, Atlanta (10-6-1)
beat Edmonton 3-2 on Sunday on Slava Kozlov's first goal of the
season midway through the third period.

"Obviously it was a slow start for me," Kozlov said. "Hopefully,
I will pick it up. I tried to stay calm and just work hard. It
feels good."

The Thrashers have been fine offensively even with Kozlov
struggling. Rich Peverley had two assists Sunday and leads the
team with 23 points, while Ilya Kovalchuk has 12 goals in 11
games.

Atlanta has been especially potent on the power play, going 5
for 11 in the last three games to improve to 26.5 percent for
the season - among the best in the league.

The Thrashers now try to snap a six-game losing streak to the
Bruins, but Boston goalie Tim Thomas has not been at his best at
Philips Arena, going 2-2-0 with a 3.45 GAA in five appearances.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:43:30 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Moulson scores twice in Isles' 4-1 win over Bruins]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

BOSTON(AP) -- Matt Moulson was perfectly happy to have his first
career two-goal game. He didn't need a hat trick - especially
one he didn't deserve.

Moulson scored twice - and was temporarily credited with a third
- on Monday night to lead the New York Islanders to a 4-1
victory over the Boston Bruins. He was given New York's third
goal for doing nothing more than raising his arms in celebration
after John Tavares scored, but the right player was credited on
review.

"I'm not going to take that one," said Moulson, who has 10 goals
this season - more than he had his entire career while bouncing
back and forth to the minors in the previous two years. "He got
a good bounce there. I was trying for it but I just couldn't
reach it."

Dwayne Roloson stopped 28 shots, and Tavares scored to make it
3-1 before Trent Hunter added an empty-netter with 49 seconds
left. But Moulson's goals were all the Islanders needed to
avoided a repeat of their last visit to Boston, when they held a
3-0 lead with just over 8 minutes left in regulation before
losing in a shootout 4-3.

"As a team you can't look in the past," Roloson said. "You just
have to keep looking in the future and keep working."

Tuukka Rask made 17 saves and Daniel Paille scored for Boston,
which killed off all five penalties and has not allowed a goal
in 22 consecutive power plays. But the Bruins, who have allowed
10 goals in the last two games, lost their third straight.

"Those little details that meant so much to us being successful
aren't consistent right now," Bruins coach Claude Julien said.
"There's not that confidence or determination we need to be
successful. Right now we have to have our best players playing
their best if we're going to turn it around."

The Islanders, who blew a three-goal lead in Boston on Oct. 10,
took a two-goal lead on Tavares' goal with 18:10 left in the
game and finished this one off in regulation - a rarity for
these teams of late. The Bruins had played two straight overtime
games and the Islanders needed OT in their previous three.

"We could say, 'We played well but we're not scoring goals.' We
could hide behind that," forward Blake Wheeler said. "But when
you give up 10 goals in your last two games, it's not good
enough."

New York took the lead 6 minutes into the game when Jack Hillen
brought it around the boards to the back of the net and
backhanded it into the slot for Moulson.

Boston had a 5-on-3 advantage late in the first, but Dennis
Wideman hit the post on Roloson's glove side on Boston's best
chance. The Bruins finally tied it with 5:04 left in the second
period when David Krejci brought the puck into the zone and
swept it across the crease to Paille, who shot once off
Roloson's pad and a second time between the goalie's skate and
the post.

The net, which had been knocked off the moorings by an Islanders
skater, went into the air and the puck slid in and came to rest
under the bottom of the goal when it came back to the ice.

Moulson made it 2-1 after Rask played the puck behind the net
and sent it along the right boards. It was picked off by Richard
Park near the circle and quickly centered to Moulson, who
redirected it past Rask as he tried to get back in position.

NOTES: Red Sox slugger David Ortiz participated in a ceremonial
first puck drop. ... The Bruins announced that there will be an
old-timers game the day after the Jan. 1 Winter Classic at
Fenway Park. Cam Neely, Pat LaFontaine and Brian Leetch will
play alongside celebrities like actors Denis Leary and Tim
Robbins. ... Islanders D Mark Streit played his 300th game. ...
Bruins F Marco Sturm's next game will be his 800th.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:44:21 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Islanders-Bruins Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By KATE HEDLIN
STATS Writer

New York (7-6-7) at Boston (8-7-4), 7:00 p.m. EDT

The New York Islanders are struggling to protect leads on their
longest road trip of the season. They blew a big lead last month
against the Boston Bruins.

The Islanders try to bounce back from their latest squandered
lead Monday night when they visit the Bruins, who have defeated
them seven consecutive times.

New York (7-6-7) has earned at least a point in four straight
games (2-0-2), but has failed to protect a lead in all three
games of its current seven-game road trip - all of which have
gone to overtime. The lone win on the trip came at Carolina on
Friday, when the Isles blew a three-goal lead but recovered to
win 4-3 in overtime.

They jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period Saturday at
Florida, but went on to lose 5-4 in a shootout.

Dwayne Roloson gave up three goals in the second, and New York
trailed 4-2 before John Tavares and Kyle Okposo scored to tie
the game. Roloson allowed the deciding goal to Nathan Horton in
the fourth round of the tiebreaker.

"Sometimes when you get a lead like that, you get a little
lackadaisical," said Tavares, who added an assist for his third
multipoint game in the last four. "You have to bear down and be
sharper."

Despite the problems holding on to leads, New York is now
looking to record a point in four consecutive road contests for
the first time since a 4-0-1 stretch Jan. 8-22.

Tavares leads all NHL rookies with 18 points and eight goals,
including three in the last two games. He had a goal and an
assist in New York's 4-3 shootout loss in Boston on Oct. 10, in
which the Islanders failed to hold on to a 3-0, first-period
lead. That defeat was New York's seventh straight to the Bruins.

Though Boston (8-7-4) has dominated the Islanders recently, it's
looking to avoid a third straight loss overall. After falling
1-0 in a shootout to Florida on Thursday, the Bruins lost 6-5 in
overtime at Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Boston, which had been held to 11 goals over its previous eight
games, took the lead over the Penguins on Marco Sturm's goal
17:31 into the third period, but Tim Thomas allowed a goal to
former Bruin Bill Guerin with 0.4 seconds remaining in
regulation, then gave up the game-winner to Pascal Dupuis 1:24
into overtime.

"We scored goals, yeah," defenseman Derek Morris said, "and we
got a point, which was nice, but that's not our system we're
going to play. We did things we don't normally do and we did
them all in one game. We're lucky to get a point."

The Bruins have had little trouble scoring against the Islanders
at home. They've averaged 3.9 goals, going 6-0-1 since the
2006-07 season.

"It's important that we get over (Saturday's loss) and move
forward and look at how important this week is," coach Claude
Julien told the Bruins' official Web site. "We've got a couple
of teams in the Islanders and Atlanta who are in the same pile
as us and (we see) the importance of winning those."

Boston is 3-0-2 in its last five home games.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:01:14 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Penguins snap 4-game skid, beat Bruins in OT]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH(AP) -- Evgeni Malkin returned and woke up the
Pittsburgh Penguins' slumbering offense.

Playing for the first time in eight games following a shoulder
injury, Malkin had three assists. Pascal Dupuis scored his
second goal of the game 1:24 into overtime and Pittsburgh
snapped its four-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over the
Boston Bruins on Saturday night.

"We were missing Geno," Dupuis said. "He played great for us.
Obviously, it was a big boost for us for him to come back. He
played well. It looked like he didn't miss a shift."

Dupuis scored when goalie Tim Thomas mistakenly left a puck
along the boards, miscommunicating with defenseman Dennis
Wideman. Pittsburgh's Jordan Staal picked up the puck and fed it
to Dupuis, who tucked in his 100th NHL goal and fifth this
season.

"I don't know what happened behind the net, but I ended up with
the puck in the slot and basically just tapped it in," Dupuis
said. "One-hundredth goal of my career, game-winner, overtime,
I'll take it."

The Penguins' Bill Guerin sent the game to overtime when he
scored with 0.4 seconds left in regulation off a feed from
Malkin.

The Bruins, 2-0-3 in their past five, scored twice during the
final 5:47 of regulation to take their only lead. David Krejci's
5-on-3 goal tied it, and Marco Sturm put Boston ahead with 2:29
left.

Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists, and Jay McKee and Mark
Eaton also scored for the Penguins, who netted only three goals
during their skid. Pittsburgh scored once in the 209 minutes, 9
seconds before Saturday's game.

Penguins coach Dan Bylsma put Malkin on a line with Crosby,
something the Penguins rarely do. Pittsburgh responded by
matching a season high for goals.

"I know we get the message when we're together," Crosby said.
"We know we have to create things. It's hard for them to key on
one of us when we're together. Geno did a great job."

"I think after the last four games, this was a big moment for me
and the team," Malkin said.

The Bruins had scored 11 goals in their previous eight games and
were shut out in their last two road games.

This game turned into a shootout, capped by a frantic final 13
minutes in regulation and overtime.

"We scored goals, yeah," Boston defenseman Derek Morris said,
"and we got a point, which was nice, but that's not our system
we're going to play. We did things we don't normally do and we
did them all in one game. We're lucky to get a point."

Eaton gave the Penguins their fourth lead when he finished a
setup from Crosby with 11 minutes left in regulation.

Krejci's second of the season came after Crosby was penalized
for tripping soon after a 4-minute penalty was given to
Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke for high-sticking Byron Ritz.

About a minute after Boston tied it, Crosby had a breakaway but
Thomas lunged to stop his backhanded shot.

That allowed Sturm to deflect in Zdeno Chara's shot from the
point past goalie Brent Johnson for the apparent winner until
Guerin beat the final horn with his slap shot.

Blake Wheeler, Michael Ryder and Morris also scored. Chara and
former Penguins forward Mark Recchi had two assists for Boston,
which had not scored a power-play goal in eight of its previous
nine games.

Eaton's goal was his second of the season and 22nd in 472 NHL
games. Just 1:42 in, McKee scored the 21st goal of his 760-game
career to end Thomas' shutout streak at 174:16 and the Bruins'
shutout run of 128:36.

The teams then alternated goals over the next 55 minutes.

Playing his 100th career game, Wheeler tied it at 1 6:47 later
with his fifth of the season, but Dupuis gave the Penguins the
lead back late in the first with his fourth.

Ryder tied it at 2 early in the second when he lifted a wrist
shot over Johnson's shoulder.

"I think we played a pretty good game and a couple of mistakes
just cost us the extra point," Ryder said. "We kept coming from
behind all night and managed to get the lead there at the end.
It was there for us, and when you're that close and lose one
like that it's real frustrating."

Crosby's 10th of the season was a deflection of Alex Goligoski's
shot midway through the second period that briefly gave the
Penguins a 3-2 lead.

But Morris scored when his shot from the point deflected off the
stick of Penguins defenseman Deryk Engelland and past Johnson
15:02 into the second.

NOTES: The Penguins went 0 for 3 on the power play and are
without a power-play goal in eight games (29 opportunities). The
club record is nine, set in the team's first season. ... The
Bruins have killed 34 of the past 35 power plays against. ...
Penguins D Ben Lovejoy had an assist on Dupuis' first goal - his
first NHL point. ... Penguins C Mark Letestu made his NHL debut.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bruins-Penguins Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By BRETT HUSTON
STATS Writer

Boston (8-7-3) at Pittsburgh (12-7-0), 7:30 p.m. EDT

The Pittsburgh Penguins are suffering through one of the worst
offensive droughts in franchise history. The return of Evgeni
Malkin could be just what they need to end it.

The NHL's reigning scoring champion is expected to come back
from a shoulder injury Saturday night at Mellon Arena, with the
Penguins looking to avoid a fifth straight loss in a matchup
with the Boston Bruins.

Pittsburgh (12-7-0) began the season 12-3-0, but there were
problems on the horizon by the end of that stretch.

All-Star defenseman Sergei Gonchar, young forward Tyler Kennedy
and Malkin - who had 113 points last season - went down with
injuries, and the Penguins haven't gotten any healthier lately.

Kris Letang hurt his shoulder in a 5-0 loss at San Jose last
Saturday and fellow defenseman Brooks Orpik left with an
undisclosed injury in a 3-0 loss at Boston on Tuesday.

Pittsburgh had three players from its AHL affiliate in the
lineup Thursday night as it lost 4-1 to New Jersey. The
Penguins' last five-game skid was Dec. 27-Jan. 5.

The Penguins scored for the first time in 160 minutes, 41
seconds - a stretch 10 minutes shy of the longest drought in
franchise history.

"It's a matter of time," said captain Sidney Crosby, who ended
his career-high pointless streak at five games by assisting on
Ruslan Fedotenko's goal. "That's how hockey works, it's not
always fair and it doesn't always seem like it's right. I
thought there were some chances to be had and some goals to be
had."

Pittsburgh went 0 for 26 on the power play in its last seven
games, all of which were played without Malkin. The Penguins
returned winger Chris Conner to the minors Friday, a move that
paves the way for Malkin to play for the first time since Oct.
28.

Malkin scored or assisted on eight of Pittsburgh's 11 power-play
goals this season.

"You are adding the point leader from last year and a playoff
MVP," coach Dan Bylsma said. "It is certainly another weapon. It
is not only the points, the speed and how he plays with the
puck. ... There is a tenaciousness that he brings to the game
that adds not just in the point totals."

The Bruins' problems are similar to Pittsburgh's, as they are
converting 12.9 percent of their power-play chances - 0.9
percent worse than the Penguins - and missing key players due to
injury.

Forwards Marc Savard and Milan Lucic aren't quite ready to
return yet, but David Krejci was in Tuesday's win over
Pittsburgh. After Boston (8-7-3) scored three times in that
game, however, it fell 1-0 in a shootout to Florida on Thursday
despite outshooting the Panthers 40-23 and 19-1 in the second
period.

"We deserved the two points," said Tim Thomas, who fell to 1-3-2
in his last six games despite a 0.98 goals-against average.
"They got some chances, but we got more. It is a little easier
to take knowing that we won the last two."

Boston recorded points in its last four games, but was shut out
three times in its last six and totaled 11 goals in its past
eight.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Vokoun, Panthers beat Bruins 1-0 in shootout]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

BOSTON(AP) -- The Florida Panthers were content to take the game
into a shootout. At least that way they knew they'd get off
three more shots.

Tomas Vokoun stopped 40 shots for his third shutout in four
games, and Cory Stillman scored in the fourth round of the
shootout to give the Panthers a 1-0 victory over the Boston
Bruins on Thursday night.

It was the first shootout attempt of the season for Stillman,
who had three goals and three assists in his previous four games
but did not get off a shot in regulation or overtime. The
Panthers were outshot 19-1 in the second period as a team - the
fifth time this year that an NHL team has had one shot on goal
in a period, according to STATS Inc.

"That second period - there is no way to describe it," said
Panthers coach Peter DeBoer, whose team snapped a two-game
losing streak. "Our desperation was high in the third, though,
and I thought we outplayed them."

Tim Thomas made 23 saves in regulation and overtime to extend
his shutout streak to 172 minutes, 28 seconds. He stopped the
first three Florida attempts in the shootout, but Stillman beat
him on the glove side to end it.

The Bruins have not lost in regulation on their four-game
homestand.

"We deserved the two points," Thomas said. "They got some
chances, but we got more. It is a little easier to take knowing
that we won the last two."

On a night dedicated to the nation's military, each team played
stifling defense.

Boston held Florida to one shot on goal in the second period,
and a small ripple of chuckles rose from the crowd when the
second-period shots on goal were announced: "Boston 19, Florida
1."

But the score was still 0-0 at the time.

"When you get outshot 19-1 and you are chasing the puck the
whole period, there is not much good," Stillman said. "But
whether you have 50 shots or no shots, it was still a tie game
after two."

It stayed that way through the third period, with Vokoun
stopping Patrice Bergeron on a spin move with less than a minute
left. The five-minute overtime produced few chances - Boston
outshot the Panthers 4-2 - and the Bruins put their first three
shootout attempts off Vokoun's right leg.

Steven Reinprecht nearly gave Florida the advantage on the first
shootout attempt when his shot bounced off and over Thomas
toward the net. But the Bruins goalie swiped it out of the
crease before it could cross the goal line, then Rostislav Olesz
and Stephen Weiss shot wide of the net.

"We survived the second period," Vokoun said. "After the first
shootout attempt didn't go in, I thought, 'Oh, my God. It's
never going to go in."'

The Bruins had not won back-to-back games this season before
beating Buffalo and Pittsburgh in the past week, shutting out
the defending Stanley Cup champions 3-0 on Tuesday night.
Thomas, who did not play against Buffalo, has not allowed a goal
since the first period against Montreal last Thursday.

Florida's best chance to score in regulation came late in the
first period with a 5-on-3 advantage, when Thomas flung himself
across the crease to follow a cross-ice pass to Nathan Horton.
Horton put the puck on net, but Thomas had the shaft of his
stick flat on the ice to block it.

The Bruins, who were off Wednesday on Veterans Day, use the game
to recognize members of the military in the crowd and played
videos from those stationed overseas.

NOTES: F Milan Lucic practiced with the Bruins on Thursday
morning for the first time since breaking right index finger on
Oct. 16. But he was not active for the game. ... Florida's Radek
Dvorak (knee), Dominic Moore (nasal surgery) and Kamil Kreps
(foot) all returned to action.]]></description>
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				<description><![CDATA[By MIKE LIPKA
STATS Writer

Florida (5-9-1) at Boston (8-7-2), 7:00 p.m. EDT

The Boston Bruins have finally won back-to-back games for the
first time, and they'd love to go on a run similar to the ones
that led them to the top of the Eastern Conference last season.

With the struggling Florida Panthers coming to Boston for
Thursday's meeting, the Bruins should have a good chance for a
third straight win as they try to hold an eighth consecutive
opponent to two or fewer goals.

Although they've struggled offensively with top-line forwards
Marc Savard and Milan Lucic injured - scoring one goal during a
three-game losing streak to start November - the Bruins (8-7-2)
have remained stingy at the defensive end.

They led the league by allowing 2.32 goals per game last season,
helping them rattle off five winning streaks of at least four
games between Nov. 1 and Jan. 15, going 28-4-1 in that stretch.

Boston has been even better defensively lately, allowing eight
goals in the last seven games despite going 3-3-1. The offense
has finally shown signs of improvement in recent wins over
Buffalo and Pittsburgh, combining for seven goals, and the
Bruins hope that will lead to another string of victories.

"A lot of times when your team stops scoring goals you tend to
start cheating on the wrong side of the puck to try and create
goals," veteran forward Mark Recchi told the Bruins' official
Web site. "We stayed with the game plan and we knew that if we
continued in that path ... it would eventually pay off and now
it's starting to pay off for us."

The 41-year-old Recchi notched his 900th career assist in
Tuesday's 3-0 win over the Penguins, while Tim Thomas earned his
second shutout with 27 saves as the reigning Vezina Trophy
winner snapped a four-start losing streak. Thomas has a 1.20
goals-against average in his last five appearances.

Boston would still like to see some of its skaters break out of
offensive slumps. David Krejci, who returned from a bout with
the swine flu Tuesday, has been held without a point in his last
five games.

Michael Ryder has gone nine straight without a point. He and
Krejci combined for 126 points last season.

Florida (5-9-1) could provide a good opportunity for Boston's
scorers if it plays defense like it did while getting swept in a
home-and-home set with Washington over the weekend.

The Capitals, despite playing without Alex Ovechkin, totaled 11
goals, scoring five during the third period of a 7-4 win
Saturday.

"One thing we need to do is work on our coverage down low and
behind the net," said backup goalie Scott Clemmensen, who
started Saturday. "I'm not sure how it gets so bad at times.
It's a matter of knowing responsibility. Forget about tonight;
we're not quite there yet as far as taking care of our own end."

The Panthers had seemed to be figuring things out with Tomas
Vokoun notching back-to-back shutouts against St. Louis and
Carolina on Oct. 31 and Nov. 4, but Florida's opponents have
scored four or more goals eight times.

Vokoun will likely start against the Bruins, a team he made 41
saves versus in a 2-0 home victory Feb. 21. Boston went 3-1-0
against the Panthers last season, with two of those wins coming
at the expense of departed backup Craig Anderson.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bruins shut out slumping Penguins 3-0]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

BOSTON(AP) -- Ex-Penguin Mark Recchi knows Sidney Crosby too well
to think that his current slump might be a long-term condition.

"It's just one of those things where he's in a rut right now,"
Recchi said after tallying his 900th career assist in the Boston
Bruins' 3-0 victory over Pittsburgh. "It won't be very long
he'll be in it, I know that. He's a great player and when they
break out, they can go the opposite way, and everything they
touch turns to goals."

Crosby recorded only two shots and was held without a point for
the fifth straight game - four was already a career worst - and
the Penguins were shut out for the second game in a row.
Pittsburgh has not scored in 149 minutes, 9 seconds and has lost
three straight games - all away from home - after opening the
season 7-0 on the road.

"We've got to find a way to score some goals," Crosby said.
"That's the way it's been going the last week or two for us.
It's been a long road trip, longer when you don't win. We've got
to find a way to play better."

Tim Thomas stopped 27 shots for his second shutout of the season
and the 14th of his career to pass Andy Moog for 10th on the
Bruins' list as Boston won consecutive games for the first time
all season.

Matt Hunwick backhanded a rebound under the crossbar, then had
to wait 77 seconds for a whistle so NHL officials could consult
a video replay and give Boston the goal. Daniel Paille scored
his first goal with the Bruins, and Patrice Bergeron added a
short-handed empty-netter with 3.5 seconds left.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves for the Penguins, who are in
their longest losing streak of the season and their longest
since Dan Bylsma took over as head coach on Feb. 15 and led them
to the Stanley Cup championship.

But Stanley Cup playoffs MVP Evgeni Malkin is out with an
injury, along with Kris Letang, Sergei Gonchar and Tyler
Kennedy. The Penguins also lost former Boston College defenseman
Brooks Orpik in the first period to an unspecified injury.

And you don't need to look any farther than that to understand
Crosby's scoring slump, Bruins coach Claude Julien said.

"Being honest, it was a lot easier because we didn't have a lot
of guys to focus on," he said. "They're the defending Stanley
Cup champs, and when they're healthy they have a lot of
firepower. It was a lot easier to focus on him, with a lot of
the other guys out of their lineup."

Hunwick scored at 18:24 of the second period, but it took a bit
longer for the goal to count.

After he beat Fleury, three Bruins began celebrating and the TD
Garden foghorn sounded, but the referee waved off the goal. Play
continued until the next whistle with 17:07 left on the clock.
Referee Bill McCreary went over to talk to the replay official
and soon signaled for the goal to count, giving the Bruins a 1-0
lead and resetting the clock to the time of the goal.

With 16:26 left in the game, Recchi found Paille alone in the
Penguins' zone and he beat Fleury on the stick side to make it
2-0. The Penguins pulled the goalie for an extra attacker with a
minute left, then got a two-man skating advantage on a Boston
penalty.

But Bergeron bounced a shot from the middle of the Boston zone
into the empty net to make it 3-0.

NOTES: Bruins Hall of Famer Ray Bourque was in the building to
watch his son Christopher, a Penguins forward. ... During a
break in the first period, the Bruins honored arena usher Bill
Lynch, who helped wave down a subway train to stop after a woman
fell on the tracks over the weekend. ... It was the Bruins'
100th victory over Pittsburgh in 175 meetings. ... The Penguins'
next game is at home against New Jersey, which will be trying to
improve to 9-0 on the road. ... Pittsburgh was 0 for 2 on the
power play, making them scoreless on 23 straight.]]></description>
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				<description><![CDATA[By BRETT HUSTON
STATS Writer

Pittsburgh (12-5-0) at Boston (7-7-2), 7:00 p.m. EDT

Key injuries are mounting for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and their
power play has been rendered virtually non-existent as they've
lost back-to-back games for the first time this season.

The Boston Bruins can certainly relate.

Both teams are banged up heading into the first of two meetings
this week, but the Bruins may have center David Krejci back in
the lineup Tuesday night against the visiting Penguins, who will
be missing three-fifths of their top power-play unit.

Pittsburgh (12-5-0) won 11 of its first 13 behind captain Sidney
Crosby's nine goals and seven assists, but the Stanley Cup
champions began to lose some key pieces along the way.

The Penguins went into the season knowing they'd be without
forward Max Talbot, who scored both goals in June's
Cup-clinching Game 7 in Detroit, for at least six weeks, but
other significant names have gone down as well.

Defenseman Sergei Gonchar could miss another month with a broken
wrist suffered last month and Conn Smythe Trophy winner Evgeni
Malkin is still likely a few games away from returning from a
strained right shoulder.

Forward Tyler Kennedy has missed four of the past five games
with a groin injury and it's unclear when he'll return, and
defenseman Kris Letang suffered a shoulder injury at San Jose in
Saturday's 5-0 loss, Pittsburgh's second straight on the road
after starting 7-0-0.

"Sure, we have injuries and it's there as an excuse if you want
to take it," forward Matt Cooke said. "But if we want to win
hockey games we have to face adversity and find a way to win 1-0
if we have to. You have to adjust, work harder and work
smarter."

Gonchar, Letang and Malkin are integral parts of the power play,
which hasn't converted in 21 chances over the past five games
and is 3 for 36 since Gonchar was hurt.

Nearly 40 percent of Crosby's 103 points last season came with
the man advantage, and with the power play suddenly coming up
empty, Pittsburgh's captain has gone four games without a point
for the first time in his career.

Boston (7-7-2) has also been plagued by injuries that have
played a role in its slow start following a 116-point season.
Center Marc Savard will be out another two to four weeks with a
broken foot suffered in mid-October, and left wing Milan Lucic
is still likely a week away from returning from a broken finger
that's sidelined him for 10 games.

There's some good news, though. Krejci, the Bruins'
second-leading scorer behind Savard with 73 points last season,
returned to practice Monday for the first time since being
diagnosed with swine flu last week and will likely play against
the Penguins.

Krejci doesn't have a point with the man advantage this season
after collecting 19 in 2008-09 - he has five total in 14 games -
but Boston's struggling power-play unit finally broke out
Saturday. A miserable 2 for 42 over the past 13 games, the
Bruins got power-play goals from Mark Recchi and Zdeno Chara in
the first period of a 4-2 win over Buffalo.

"That's what we've been telling them - to relax," coach Claude
Julien said. "Eventually you're going to score goals. You know
if you stick with it, it's going to turn."

Chara's goal was his first after he scored 19 last season. The
Bruins had scored four goals in going 1-3-1 in their previous
five.

Boston, which visits Mellon Arena on Saturday, went 2-1-1
against the Penguins last season, getting a goal and three
assists from Krejci.]]></description>
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				<description><![CDATA[BOSTON(AP) -- Marco Sturm's reaction after his first goal in over
a month showed what the goal-starved Boston Bruins had been
going through.

Mark Recchi and Zdeno Chara scored first-period power-play goals
as the Bruins halted a rough stretch with a 4-2 win over Buffalo
on Saturday night, sending the Sabres to their first consecutive
losses of the season.

"A lot of guys were do," said Sturm, who yelled and pumped his
first more enthusiastically than usual when he scored late in
the second period. "A lot of relief. As a forward you never want
to go through that. Hopefully I can relax a little now."

Chara scored his first of the season, Sturm had his first since
the second game of the year and Byron Bitz tallied first since
early October.

"Nice to celebrate," Sturm said, still smiling. "It's been a
while."

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Bruins, who
had scored just once in their previous three games - that coming
with 52 seconds remaining in regulation of a 2-1 shootout loss
to Montreal in its last game on Thursday.

"That's what we've been telling them - to relax," Boston coach
Claude Julien said. "Eventually you're going to score goals. You
know if you stick with it, it's going to turn."

Boston also snapped an 0-for-20 run on the power play.

Derek Roy and Jason Pominville had the Sabres' goals. Buffalo
was 0 for 7 on the power play.

"The greater issue is our game has lacked energy the last three
games," Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. "I think the old me might
have gone irate and done something a little bit stranger. We've
dealt with some sickness. We're going to back off. We're going
to get the guys some rest."

Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots for Boston. Buffalo rookie
netminder Jhonas Enroth, recalled from Portland of the AHL on
Wednesday, made 33 saves in his NHL debut.

The Bruins made it 1-0 just 3:17 into the game when Recchi
tipped Derek Morris' shot from the point past Enroth during
their initial man-advantage opportunity.

Boston, which entered the night with the NHL's worst ranked
power play, made it 2-0 on Chara's first goal of the season at
16:31.

Chara, the 2009 Norris Trophy winner, looked to the ceiling and
raised both arms, possibly showing a bit of relief over his
tough start. He scored a career-high 19 last season.

"There's no doubt it was probably a big sigh of relief for him
and hopefully it gets him going in the right direction," Julien
said.

Facing a rookie goaltender and a team playing on consecutive
nights appeared like the perfect recipe for the Bruins, who made
it 3-0 on Bitz's goal 1:22 into the middle period. Center Steve
Begin collected defenseman Steve Montador's errant pass in the
slot and fed Bitz in front.

"I wasn't that nervous," Enroth said. "I felt pretty confident
before the game and I just wanted to go out there and enjoy the
moment."

The Sabres cut it to 3-1 when Roy batted a bouncing puck by Rask
from the slot, but Sturm one-timed a shot from the left circle
that caromed into the net off the far post, making it 4-1 late
in the second.

Boston had scored just four goals in its previous five games.

Former Sabre Daniel Paille, acquired from Buffalo on Oct. 20,
was stopped on clean breakaway by Enroth's right-pad stop midway
into the opening period. Bergeron flubbed a bid going in alone
midway into the third.

NOTES: Rask made his first start since shutting out Edmonton 2-0
on Oct 31. ... Buffalo had a pair of players reach milestones: C
Tim Connolly played his 500th career game and D Henrik Tallinder
played his 400th. ... It was the Sabres' third game in four
nights. They lost 5-2 at home against Philadelphia on Friday.
... Buffalo pulled its goalie and had the net empty for most of
the final 1:40.]]></description>
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				<description><![CDATA[By NICOLINO DIBENEDETTO
STATS Writer

Buffalo (9-2-1) at Boston (6-7-2), 7:00 p.m. EDT

After finishing as the highest scoring team and the top seed in
the Eastern Conference last season, the Boston Bruins are still
trying to reclaim that offensive form in 2009-10.

A potential meeting with goaltender Ryan Miller and the stingy
Buffalo Sabres could be a major test.

The Bruins look to snap a three-game slide Saturday night when
they host the Northeast Division-leading Sabres.

Boston (6-7-2) finished last season with 274 goals, second
behind Detroit's 295. That potent offense was key to the Bruins
finishing atop the East for the first time since the 2001-02
season and accumulating 116 points to come one point shy of San
Jose for the Presidents' Trophy.

The Bruins haven't been nearly as effective offensively this
season, averaging 2.13 goals to rank near the bottom of the
league. Part of their problems can be attributed to a broken
left foot that has sidelined Marc Savard since Oct. 17 and the
departure of Phil Kessel, traded to Toronto in the offseason.

Savard and Kessel combined for 61 goals and 148 points last
season.

Boston hasn't scored more than two goals in a game since a 4-3
shootout win at Ottawa on Oct. 24, going 1-3-1 since while
getting outscored 7-4.

The Bruins fell again Thursday, losing 2-1 in a shootout to
Montreal after getting shut out in each of their previous two.

Patrice Bergeron, though, provided one of the few bright spots
against the Canadiens, scoring with 52 seconds remaining in
regulation to snap a goal drought of 192 minutes, 6 seconds.
After being assured of at least a point by Bergeron, Boston
missed all three shootout attempts.

"At least it's out of our heads now," said Bergeron, who leads
the Bruins with five goals and nine points. "It's one step
forward to get that goal and get that point. But one point is
not good enough."

Boston's offensive struggles have included the power play, which
tied Anaheim as the fourth-best in the NHL last season,
converting 23.6 percent of chances. The unit is now at the
bottom of the league with a 10.9 percent success rate, and is 0
for 20 over the last seven games after coming up empty three
times against the Canadiens.

Now, they'll have to contend with the Sabres (9-3-1), who have
allowed a league-low 29 goals but have dropped two of three.

Miller has been a big part of that stifling defensive play, but
is coming off a subpar performance in Friday's 5-2 loss to
Philadelphia. He gave up a season-high four goals on 36 shots,
but still ranks among the league leaders with a 9-2-1 record and
1.86 goals-against average.

Miller posted a 3-2-0 mark with a 3.36 GAA in five games against
Boston last season. He won his last two meetings with the
Bruins, allowing two goals in each contest.

Buffalo went 4-2-0 against the Bruins last season, including
1-2-0 in Boston.

If the Sabres opt to rest Miller, they'll turn to veteran backup
Patrick Lalime, who lost his only start of the season 4-2
against Atlanta on Oct. 17. He gave up two goals on 14 shots in
relief in his only other appearance, a 5-0 loss to the New York
Islanders last Saturday.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bergeron, Bruins avoid 3rd straight shutout]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

BOSTON(AP) -- For the Boston Bruins, a shootout loss was an
improvement over a shutout loss.

Patrice Bergeron's goal with 52 seconds left in regulation
helped the Bruins avoid a historic third straight shutout, but
Michael Cammalleri scored in the shootout to give the Montreal
Canadiens a 2-1 victory over Boston on Thursday night.

"We scored," Bruins forward Blake Wheeler said. "Obviously,
that's a positive we can take out of the game."

Boston had not scored in 192 minutes, 6 seconds, dating to
Vladimir Sobotka's goal at 7:02 of the third period against
Edmonton on Saturday. The Bruins had not been shut out in three
straight games since Eddie Shore and the 1928-29 squad - which
went on to earn Boston's first Stanley Cup title - scored just
once over five games from Feb. 2-14, 1929.

The Bruins were less than a minute away from matching the
ignominious feat when Bergeron, with goalie Tim Thomas pulled
for an extra attacker, stuffed the rebound of Zdeno Chara's shot
past Carey Price.

"At least it's out of our heads now," Bergeron said. "It's one
step forward to get that goal and get that point. But one point
is not good enough."

In the 700th game between the archrivals, Thomas made 25 saves,
giving up only Glen Metropolit's first-period goal and
Cammalleri's in the shootout. The Bruins earned a point against
the Canadiens for the eighth straight game, and Montreal has not
won in Boston in regulation since the end of the 2007-08 season.

Price stopped 42 Boston shots for his first win in more than a
month, but he failed to earn his first shutout in more than a
year.

"I hadn't won in six games, and that was not the time to get
upset," Price said. "I had to refocus in a hurry because if I
let it slip, then I lose another game."

Bergeron, who also had a goal disallowed in the second period,
couldn't convert in the shootout. When Mark Recchi was also
stopped, Price had his first win since the second game of the
season.

It was still 1-0 with 2:25 left in the second period when Marco
Sturm put the puck on Price's stick and Bergeron, trailing the
play, poked it in. The goal was put on the board but disallowed
after the video review.

"In my head there was a moment where you go, 'That figures,"'
Thomas said. "But then the other voice in my head rebounded
right away and said, 'No. We're not going to say, "Here we go
again." We've got to do something.' I was trying to send some
positive mental energy to the team to do something."

Bruins coach Claude Julien said he never saw his players feeling
sorry for themselves.

"I won't let that happen," he said. "It's our job to get
ourselves out of it. That's where we're at."

The Bruins were 0 for 3 on the power play, extending that
scoreless streak to 20 advantages over seven games; they are
last in the NHL on the power play.

NOTES: Montreal's Ryan White, who had an assist in the first
period, and Tom Pyatt both played their first NHL games. ...
Thomas took a puck off the goal line for a save with 11:35 left
in the second, and it held up under review. ... Montreal had
allowed at least one power-play goal in each of its previous
five games. ... Thomas' outlet pass sent the Bruins on a 3-on-1
break in the first period. Jaroslav Spacek helped break it up,
but went into the boards and was slow to get up.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:52:44 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bruins' Krejci diagnosed with swine flu]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

BOSTON(AP) -- Boston Bruins center David Krejci will stay away
from the team for the next 3-5 days while he is quarantined with
the swine flu.

General manager Peter Chiarelli said Thursday that the team's
medical staff confirmed a diagnosis of the H1N1 virus that will
keep the 23-year-old forward at home. The Bruins have told the
rest of their players to continue to take precautions to avoid
infection, including washing their hands frequently and using
the hand sanitizers that have been installed throughout their
facilities.

"We told them ... to get to us early if they have any symptoms,"
Chiarelli said before Boston's game against the Montreal
Canadiens.

Chiarelli said the Bruins are in line for H1N1 vaccines, but
they are a lower priority than people who are more susceptible
to the infection, like children and pregnant women.

"It's not available to us," Chiarelli said. "There's higher risk
groups."

Krejci, Boston's second leading scorer last season, will be kept
away from the team until he has had no symptoms or fever for 24
hours.

The Bruins, who had been shut out in their previous two games,
were already without forwards Milan Lucic, who is recovering
from surgery on his broken right index finger, and Marc Savard,
who is expected to miss another two to four weeks with a broken
left foot.

"We've just got to deal with our own issues and hope that he
gets better quickly," coach Claude Julien said. "That's the
reality of what's going on in North America these days and we
have to all be aware of it and do the best we can, and our team
has done that. Our doctors and everyone involved, we're taking
all the precautions we can to try and avoid it. But
unfortunately it's all around us."

Other NHL players who've said they had swine flu include New
York Islanders captain Doug Weight, who missed three games;
Washington forward Quintin Laing, Edmonton defenseman Ladislav
Smid and Colorado goaltender Peter Budaj.

After scoring 22 goals with 51 assists last season, Krejci
received a three-year contract worth more than $11 million a few
days before having hip surgery in June. In 14 games this season,
he has one goal and four assists.

The team said Krejci started to feel sick after Tuesday's 2-0
loss to the Red Wings in Detroit.

"It's kind of been like that so far this year, one thing after
another," forward Blake Wheeler said. "It definitely hurts
having Dave out, but we have guys that can step up in his place
and hopefully get the job done.

"In our sport, or I guess in any sport, you have such close
physical contact with guys, you've just got to be careful and
you've got to take all the necessary steps - using hand
sanitizer, making sure that you aren't putting your hands in
your eyes, stuff that your mom taught you when you were little."]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bruins sign backup G Rask to 2-year extension]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[BOSTON(AP) -- The Boston Bruins have signed backup goalie Tuukka
(TOO'-kah) Rask to a two-year contract extension that will keep
him with the team through the 2011-12 season.

The 22-year-old Finn has appeared in nine NHL games with a 5-2-2
record and 2.43 goals-against average as Tim Thomas' backup.
Rask shut out the Edmonton Oilers 2-0 in his last start on Oct.
31.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed on Thursday.

Rask spent most of the last two seasons with Providence of the
AHL, posting a 60-33-6 record and five shutouts in 102
appearances.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Canadiens-Bruins Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By MIKE LIPKA
STATS Writer

Montreal (7-8-0) at Boston (6-7-1), 7:00 p.m. EDT

As the top seed in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Bruins
quickly escorted the Montreal Canadiens out of the playoffs last
spring, but the banged-up Bruins look like a different team in
the midst of a major offensive drought.

The Canadiens, meanwhile, are having trouble stopping the puck
going into the archrivals' first meeting of the season, and
these struggling clubs will try to sort out their issues as they
face off Thursday night at the TD Garden.

Little went wrong for Boston during a dominating regular-season
run in 2008-09, but the Bruins (6-7-1) have been derailed by a
punchless offense that is playing without injured top-line
forwards Marc Savard and Milan Lucic. They also lost leading
goal scorer Phil Kessel to Toronto in the offseason.

Boston hasn't scored in more than 130 minutes after getting
blanked in back-to-back games on its recent road trip - the
first time that has happened to the Bruins since March 17 and
20, 2007.

They have scored a total of three goals in their last four
games, losing three times despite allowing five goals.

"We're going to have to decide that we're tired of hearing we
had a good effort without winning," coach Claude Julien said
after Tuesday night's 2-0 loss to Detroit.

Center David Krejci and former Montreal winger Michael Ryder are
among the most snake-bitten of the Bruins. Krejci has five
points after totaling 73 last season, and Ryder has been held
without a point in six straight games.

The Bruins announced Thursday that Krejci has been diagnosed
with swine flu and will be kept away from the team until he has
had no symptoms or fever for 24 hours.

Ryder was at his best against his former club in last season's
playoffs, totaling four goals and three assists in the four-game
sweep, which avenged three postseason defeats to Montreal this
decade and abruptly ended the Habs' 100th season.

Including playoffs, Boston won its final nine games against the
Canadiens last season after losing 13 in a row in one stretch in
the see-saw rivalry from 2007-08.

The Bruins could continue the run if they can exploit Montreal's
struggling defense, which has allowed 18 goals while losing
three of four - a surprising problem under defensive-minded
first-year coach Jacques Martin.

"What concerns me most is our lack of effectiveness in
protecting our goaltender," Martin said. "Part of that starts in
the offensive zone with back pressure - helping the defense -
but also in being more effective in the defensive zone."

Carey Price lost his sixth straight start and saw his
goals-against average swell to 3.63 on Tuesday as Montreal fell
5-4 at home to Atlanta.

Backup Jaroslav Halak could get his eighth start Thursday. Halak
has won five of his last six appearances, but he's 0-2-0 with a
4.83 GAA in two road starts.

With nine goals in their last two games, the Canadiens (7-8-0)
are starting to see some results offensively after they revamped
their top forward lines in the offseason. Newcomer Mike
Cammalleri scored his team-leading seventh goal against the
Thrashers, while Brian Gionta had his first two-goal game for
Montreal.

Last season's Habs couldn't mount much offense against Vezina
Trophy winner Tim Thomas, who was 8-0-1 with a 1.85 GAA versus
Montreal, including playoffs.

After a rough start to his season, Thomas has been rounding back
into form. He has posted a 1.70 GAA in his last three starts
even though he has lost all of them.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:39:47 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Osgood's shutout helps Red Wings beat Bruins 2-0]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By LARRY LAGE
AP Sports Writer

DETROIT(AP) -- Chris Osgood reached one milestone and approached
another one as he helped the Detroit Red Wings blank the Boston
Bruins 2-0 Tuesday night.

Osgood made 29 saves for his 50th shutout and 394th career
victory.

"I don't put much merit in shutouts," he said. "The only thing
they're good for is that you know you have a great chance of
winning the game. I grew up watching Grant Fuhr play and he was
just about winning games, so that's kind of my mentality."

Osgood, though, acknowledged he's trying not to think about win
No. 400 because it "is big for me."

Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom scored in the first period
to generate more than enough offense against a team that is
struggling to score and didn't get any puck luck, hitting the
post in both the first and second periods.

The Bruins have not scored in nearly 133 minutes, getting shut
out in consecutive games for the first time since March of 2007.

"We're going to have to decide that we're tired of hearing we
had a good effort without winning," Boston coach Claude Julien
said.

The Bruins pulled Tim Thomas with about 1 1/2 minutes left to
add an extra skater and called a timeout in the final minute,
trying to come up with a way to pull within a goal.

It didn't happen.

Thomas had 24 saves for Boston, which fell under .500 with their
third loss in four games.

"I made a couple of mistakes that ended up costing us," Thomas
said. "We couldn't put the puck in the net."

The rebuilding Red Wings are 3-0-1 in their last four games and
have a point in seven of their last eight.

"I imagine they looked at us like we looked at them," Detroit
coach Mike Babcock said. "Without (Marc) Savard and (Milan)
Lucic, they have big-time players out of the lineup - no
different than us."

Lucic is out with a broken finger and Savard has a broken foot.

Detroit is missing players who combined for 88 goals last
season, then lost more scoring options when Johan Franzen and
Valtteri Filppula were injured.

The Red Wings have relied on Holmstrom all season, and lately
they've been able to lean on Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk.

Holmstrom has 10 points this season. Zetterberg has bounced back
from a slow start with nine points in his last nine games.
Datsyuk has had at least two points in four of his last five
games.

Zetterberg's third goal of the season came 2 seconds into a
power play after Datsyuk pushed the puck toward the net from the
left circle off a faceoff.

Holmstrom's eighth goal in 13 games came trailing on a rush
after Datsyuk made a nifty drop pass off an up-ice feed from
Todd Bertuzzi.

"He's got eyes in his back," Holmstrom said.

NOTES: Michael Ryder and Marco Sturm both had a good chance to
score, but got unfortunate caroms off a post behind Osgood. ...
Detroit's Jonathan Ericsson (flu), Brian Rafalski (flu) and Brad
May (eye) were scratched from the lineup. ... The Bruins were
the only team Holmstrom had not scored against in his career.
... The Original Six teams are not scheduled to play again this
season.]]></description>
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