Bruins Get Handful Of Players Back At Practice; Pastrnak, Kase Still Absent
Some pretty big names were missing from Bruins practice on Saturday. Most were back on the ice on Monday.
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Some pretty big names were missing from Bruins practice on Saturday. Most were back on the ice on Monday.
It was no surprise that Tuukka Rask was formally announced as a finalist for this year's Vezina Trophy on Friday.
The mystery that is the absence of David Pastrnak -- as well as fellow Czech Ondrej Kase -- continues for another day.
The NHL thought long and hard before very carefully choosing its hub cities for its plans to return to play. Suffice it to say, nobody predicted this would happen.
David Pastrnak's post-quarantine Bruins reunion was short-lived, as the star winger was absent from practice on Thursday.
Like many people with newly coiffed heads of hair, David Pastrnak is facing an internal debate as he heads back to his workplace: Keep the curls, or chop them off.
After guiding the Bruins to the Presidents' Trophy during the regular season, Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy is up for some hardware of his own.
Pasta was back on the menu at Bruins practice on Wednesday.
The NHL announced start times for the Boston Bruins opening games, and fans will have to get used to some afternoon hockey.
It's beginning to look a lot like hockey season in Brighton. The Boston Bruins hit the ice at Warrior Ice Arena on Monday, officially dropping the puck on training camp ahead of the NHL's restart next month.
The Boston Bruins will face off against the Philadelphia Flyers on August 2.
If the NHL is able to pull off its return to play, then hockey fans will be given a magnificent reward.
Hold on to your hockey pants, people. The NHL is coming back.
The new CBA that's currently in negotiations will reportedly allow players to participate in the next two Olympic Games.
TSN's Bob McKenzie reported Wednesday that barring any last-minute changes, the NHL's games will be played in Toronto and Edmonton.
As the NHL continues to skate toward its return to action, the league ramped up its testing for COVID-19. As expected, it's getting its fair share of positive tests.
Does it look like sports leagues have a workable set of protocols in place to ensure that games can actually be played safely? After the developments from recent weeks -- and particularly last Friday -- it's awfully difficult to have any level of confidence.
Is being largely terrible, mostly uncreative, incredibly stiff and painfully tone-deaf a prerequisite for the job? Or is it a symptom? It's getting hard to tell.
Bruins forward David Pastrnak has been riding out the NHL's coronavirus break in Prague. He's still there as of Monday, but is hoping to get back to Boston when the Bruins and the rest of the NHL open up training camps in early July.
The Boston Bruins on Friday announced that they "were advised" that one of their players tested positive for COVID-19.
David Pastrnak is just 24 years old. Yet the Bruins forward is already establishing himself as one of the best Czech hockey players of all time.
When the NHL announced its plans to resume play, the league stated that Phase 3 of the plan would take place "no sooner than July 10." The league has now set July 10 as the precise date for the start of Phase 3.
It's the subtle sounds of the skates carving into the ice, it's the imagery of the ice shavings flying into the air, and it's the sight of the light reflecting off the spoked B at center ice that makes you realize that yes, hockey is really going to try to come back.
We've seen some members of the Boston Celtics return to practice already. Bruins players did the same on Wednesday.
