SportsLine's Top Weekend Picks: NBA, NHL Playoffs And MLB Action
With the NHL Stanley Cup Finals set, but the NBA conference finals still up in the air, SportsLine offers its top weekend picks.
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With the NHL Stanley Cup Finals set, but the NBA conference finals still up in the air, SportsLine offers its top weekend picks.
With NBA conference finals getting interesting and plenty of MLB action, SportsLine offers its top weekend picks.
With NBA and NHL playoffs moving into the championship round and MLB teams rounding into form, SportsLine offers its top weekend picks.
Brad Marchand has apologized before, only to go off the rails at a later date. Matt Kalman believes this time is different.
There are a lot of myths floating around social media and sports radio concerning the Boston Bruins. Matt Kalman debunks those misconceptions.
Perhaps the Bruins beat the Lightning a little too soundly during those regular-season matchups.
Brad Marchand's licking of opponents embarrasses his team and his organization, especially when he does it while an opponent is trying to get him to respond for a borderline low hit, writes Matt Kalman.
The NHL has seen enough of Brad Marchand's tongue.
Brad Marchand cannot be stopped ... from licking opponents in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
With NBA and NHL playoff series getting interesting and MLB teams rounding into form, SportsLine offers its top picks for the weekend.
For brutal honesty, there's no better player to go to than Bruins forward David Backes.
After a lethargic 4-1 loss in Game 3 against the Lightning, it's pretty clear that the Bruins need a bit of a shakeup in their offensively-challenged lineup.
After an initial push to start the second period, the Bruins never even came close to playing like the team that won 21 games in the regular season when allowing the first goal.
Boston fans didn't have much to cheer about during Wednesday night's Game 3 against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but they got to enjoy a pretty awesome honorary banner captain before the game.
"We didn't start the way we needed to at all."
Mystified why Patrice Bergeron keeps getting kicked out of the faceoff circle? So is the B's center.
This may prove to be an unpopular opinion in the great city of Boston, but here goes: You have got to appreciate Game 2 between the Bruins and Lightning.
Some will want to blame Tuukka Rask for the Bruins' Game 2 loss to the Lightning, but Matt Kalman puts it on Boston's forwards.
The Tampa Bay Lightning can't let the Bruins play like this in Game 2.
After the Bruins' 6-2 victory in Game 1 of their second-round series against Tampa Bay there should be a moratorium placed on any and all negative reviews of Rask and Nash.
Rick Nash and Boston's high-scoring line of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand are off to a flying start in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Bruins will have to quickly turn the page and get to work on preparing for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Bruins benefited from unprecedented contributions from rookies all year. Game 7 against Toronto was no different.
A comeback win for Boston in Game 7. In the other Eastern series, is this finally the year the Caps get past the Penguins?
Rallying to win an emotional Game 7 on home ice never gets old.
