On Thursday, the Bruins took care of business with a 6-3 win over the Islanders, and ended a three-game losing streak. On Friday, Peter Chiarelli did some business of his own by dealing Blake Wheeler and Mark Stuart away to the Atlanta Thrashers, and (finally) acquiring Tomas Kaberle from Toronto, in separate trades.
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Offensive struggles? What offensive struggles?
1925. Coolidge was President. The New Yorker debuted, and The Great Gatsby was published. Yogi Berra, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcom X were born. And the Bruins had a nine-game winless streak.
A friend stopped into Bostonist Cambridge Sports HQ midway through the Bruins game yesterday. We were all excited and said, "You just missed it! The Bruins just scored two goals in a row!" The friend, no slouch, asked, "But are they winning?" C'est les 2009-2010 Bruins in a nutshell. The answer at the time was yes, but it turned into no, as the B's fell to the LA Kings in a 4-3 shootout.
That was Tim Thomas' one-word summary of the Bruins game last night, where the hometown team grabbed another quick lead, but found out that the Black Hawks are miles above Ottawa in intensity and ability, which spelled bad news for Tim and the boys.
Imagine you're an Ottawa Senators fan, and you were late to the game last night because of Ottawa traffic. (Ottawa has traffic, right?) So you get to Scotiabank Palace late in the first period, you grab some poutine and a couple of Molsons, find your seat, look up....and see your team is already down 4-0 to the Bruins. How long until you leave to beat that postgame traffic? At least the poutine was delicious.
It's one point. A shootout loss. One goal. The Bruins will gratefully take it right now. With the offense struggling to even find the goal, let alone put the puck in it, and with swine flu racing towards the team, it's time to think about baby steps.
The Bruins have a nice little streak going on, don't they? After pasting Dallas, 5-1, about a month and a half ago, the Bruins went back on the Garden ice and handed Toronto a 5-2 beating, mostly courtesy of Blake Wheeler's hat trick.
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