“I was stunned, shocked and speechless. I was angry but understanding. Frustrated might be the best way to describe it: but then again, my team played well, it just wasn’t well enough.
The questions immediately popped up: can they win away from Garden ice? Is the Bruins’ offense tops in [...]
Read More →“Crushing hits, vicious scrums, a season-ending injury and a 4 game suspension have decorated the Stanley Cup Final this year. There have been great plays and sloppy plays, beautiful goals and garbage. Tonight two of the very best NHL franchises will meet for game 4 of their already extremely exciting series. Both [...]
Read More →For Boston Red Sox fans, Truck Day is tomorrow. Other than a day during which baseball equipment is loaded into an eighteen wheeler, the day is symbolic of new beginning. Football season is over and hockey’s ice is too reminiscent of bitter cold Boston streets. Sure there’s basketball, but not every New Englander [...]
Read More →“He’s dead wrong” were the words of response given to the press by Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference most recently in his verbal scrap with former Bruins coach and current commentator Don Cherry. What Cherry wrong about in Ference’s eyes was his rallying against Ference’s earlier comments about the hit that Bruins’ Daniel [...]
Read More →“Last night’s Boston Bruins game against the Dallas Stars was certainly hard-hitting. Not only did the B’s pot two goals on two shots early in the first period, but they also dropped the gloves four times in that same timeframe. For your viewing pleasure, here are the links to the four fights in the first [...]
Read More →With a little bit of a lull in things to get immediately excited about in Boston sports and the official announcement that Andy Pettite will retire, now is a perfect time to begin the guessing game of which Red Sox batters will bat where. Here’s what I think should happen:
1. [...]
Read More →“Marc Savard has a concussion – again. The Boston Bruins’ premier center has struggled to stay in the lineup after the crushing blow he sustained last year on March 7 at the hands of Pittsburgh Penguins bruiser Matt Cooke. This time Savvy was tackled by another “Matt,” former Bruins player Matt Hunwick [...]
Read More →Don’t look now, but the Tampa Bay Rays just became a formidable opponent to the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox again in the AL East. Two former Sox players, Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez, who were key to the Sox’ World Series win in 2004, are headed south this [...]
Read More →Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said today that he didn’t want to sign reliever Rafael Soriano – at least not for as much money as he got. Cashman has had a lackluster offseason, his big signings including Soriano and catcher Russell Martin. In the meantime, the Yankees’ rivals, the Boston Red Sox, have [...]
Read More →All of the pieces have fallen into place. With the avoidance of arbitration on two of his most exciting talents, Jacoby Ellsbury and Jonathan Papelbon, Theo Epstein has assembled a World Series caliber team for the Red Sox this offseason. 2010 was bleak for the BoSox: they finished in third place in the [...]
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