Bruce Cassidy Stands By Lineup Decisions After Brian Gionta's On The Ice OT Winner From Lightning
Bruce Cassidy's decision to dress Brian Gionta and play him in overtime was a head-scratcher, but the Bruins' coach stands by the move.
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Bruce Cassidy's decision to dress Brian Gionta and play him in overtime was a head-scratcher, but the Bruins' coach stands by the move.
The Boston Bruins -- and head coach Bruce Cassidy -- were not at all pleased with the work of the referees in Game 4 against the Lightning.
Bruins defenseman Torey Krug suffered a scary-looking ankle injury in the third period of Game 4 against the Lightning.
Brad Marchand cannot be stopped ... from licking opponents in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Offensively, the Bruins have some work to do against the Lighting. But they'll need to clean up their defense first.
It's officially Ryan Donato time.
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."
Follow along as both the Bruins and Lightning seek to take a 2-1 lead in this second-round series of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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.
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.
A detailed look through the four Bruins-Lightning game to see what might apply in the upcoming playoff series.
The Bruins will have to quickly turn the page and get to work on preparing for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Bruins have a lot of experience playing in Game 7's. For fans, that's not always the best thing.
The NHL's playoff picture can get complex. Here's an effort at laying out what can happen for the Bruins to earn the No. 1 seed.
"It's part of realizing you can't take a night off, no matter what night it is and who you're playing and what happened the night before. You have to be at your best."
If the Bruins win on Tuesday? You can pretty much pencil them in as Atlantic Division champions.
It looked and felt like playoff hockey at the Garden, where Tuukka Rask and David Pastrnak were ready, willing and able to get physical.
Rask is known for being at his best when he's calm in net, but he can also have a temper that sometimes results in clumsy self-punishment, equipment destruction and the abuse of milk crates. The Bruins benefited from a little bit of both sides of Rask's personality in their 4-2 win against the Lightning at TD Garden.
The Boston Bruins are remarkably hot right now. Even when they don't play, they still win.
Tuukka Rask stopped 23 shots to hand Tampa Bay its first shutout of the season Saturday, lifting the Boston Bruins over the Lightning 3-0.
Bruins general manager Don Sweeney has decided to subscribe to a philosophy of quantity over quality when it comes to his defensemen, while his Tampa Bay counterpart Steve Yzerman has decided it's more important to have an elite top three defensemen rather than have nine capable blueliners available for the playoffs. Now comes the fun part: seeing whether the Bruins or Lightning go deeper in the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs after the decisions their GMs made leading up to the 3 p.m. NHL Trade Deadline on Monday.
It should've been no surprise that when it came time to select a starting goaltender for the Bruins' showdown with the NHL-leading Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday, Cassidy was willing to take a risk.
