ESPN.com presents Bruins http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins 60 en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:50:54 webmaster@espn.go.com http://assets.espn.go.com/i/espn/teamlogos/lrg/trans/espn_dotcom_black.gif 110 110 BOSTON -- There’s been plenty of talk amongst Bruins fans and media that the Stanley Cup finals are all but wrapped up after Boston took a 2-1 series lead over the Chicago Blackhawks. As far as the Bruins are concerned such talk is nonsense. The Bruins have been in enough playoff series to know that momentum is very hard to carry, not just game to game in a series but period to period. They know this series can easily head back to Chicago tied 2-2.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13114/bruins-not-counting-on-momentum Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:44:38 EDT 13114 BOSTON -- Chicago Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa did not participate in morning skate on Wednesday but is expected to play in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins. "He's fine," Quenneville said of Hossa. Jamal Mayers took Hossa's place Wednesday morning, skating with Michal Handzus and Patrick Sharp. "I expect (Hossa) to play," Mayers said. "I'm going to prepare like I'm going to play and adjust if I'm not." Hossa was a surprise scratch moments before Game 3 on Monday, suffering from what coach Joel Quenneville called an upper-body injury.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13112/blackhawks-hossa-fine-expected-to-play Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:13:16 EDT 13112 BOSTON -- When the puck drops on Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals between the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night at TD Garden, it will mark the 200th career playoff game for Bruins forward Jaromir Jagr. The 41-year-old future Hall of Famer has played for six teams -- Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas and Boston -- during his NHL career and with the exception of the Stars (only played half of this season with Dallas), each of those teams have reached the postseason.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13110/jagr-to-hit-playoff-milestone-tonight Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:11:23 EDT 13110 BOSTON -- A major reason the Boston Bruins are two wins away from their second Stanley Cup in three seasons is the play of forward Daniel Paille, who has emerged as an unsung hero while helping to form a successful third line with Tyler Seguin and Chris Kelly. Paille scored his second consecutive game-winning goal -- and third of the playoffs -- in the Bruins' 2-0 Game 3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks. He's also helping Seguin and Kelly find their games.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13100/bs-keep-riding-pailles-surge Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:05:11 EDT 13100 BOSTON -- It has been almost two weeks since Bruins forward Gregory Campbell broke his right leg blocking a shot and remained on the ice for nearly a minute to help his team kill off a power play, a gutsy display that will forever stand out in this Stanley Cup playoff run. "I feel good," Campbell said Tuesday in his first public comments since the injury and subsequent surgery. "I mean it's been eight or nine days. I had the surgery a week ago Monday.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13097/campbell-broken-leg-hurt-a-little-bit Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:41:06 EDT 13097 Joe McDonald and James Murphy recap the Bruins' seventh straight home playoff win.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13086/video-mac-and-murph-break-down-game-3 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:18:37 EDT 13086 BOSTON -- Listen to Patrice Bergeron and Jonathan Toews for any amount of time, and there is an almost perpetual calm about them. Win or lose, up in a playoff series or down, struggling to find the back of the net or operating at an almost otherworldly level, it would be difficult to tell which player represented which state. Maybe that’s why both have won the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL’s best two-way forward the past two seasons.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13075/bergeron-winning-the-battle-against-toews Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:21:36 EDT 13075 BOSTON -- After the Bruins took a 2-1 series lead with a 2-0 win over the Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said that he thought his team made it “rather easy” on Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask in terms of traffic in front of the net and Rask being able to get clean looks at the puck. While that may have been true at times during Game 3, Rask is making everything look easy, as he did in making 27 saves for his third shutout of the playoffs.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13078/rask-ready-for-anything-everything Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:58:24 EDT 13078 BOSTON -- On a humid day in the middle of June, ice is out of its element in Boston, a fact that made the playing surface less than ideal in Monday night’s Game 3. It started even before the game began. According to defenseman Dennis Seidenberg, it was the bad surface that played a factor in Zdeno Chara catching an edge in warmups and ultimately needing stitches above his left eye just minutes before puck drop. “It was pretty bad,” Seidenberg said of the ice conditions.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13079/impact-of-ice-conditions-on-game-3 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:49:42 EDT 13079 BOSTON -- Quality scoring chances are tough to come by against this Bruins team, and especially tough if you don’t create havoc in front of Tuukka Rask. The Blackhawks didn’t do much of that in Monday night’s Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals and the result was a resounding 2-0 Bruins win that could have easily been worse. "It's a low-chance game. It's a low-chance series. ... It's hard to get A-plus chances,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said after the game.]]> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/bruins/post/_/id/13076/bruins-dont-give-an-inch-in-game-3 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:36:50 EDT 13076