The Spoked B

Posted in Recaps December 13th, 2008

20-5-4

Well, thank goodness any jinx I may have caused with the arrogance of my last post lasted for only one loss (uh oh…<thunderclap>) as the Bruins soundly…er…thrashed Atlanta last night by a score of 7-3. The most impressive performance IMHO was by Mark Stuart who, incredibly, scored two goals. This is a man who had 6 goals in his first 142 NHL games before last night. On the first goal, you can almost swear you see David Krejci doing a double take seeing Stuart charging up the middle before passing him the puck.

The game was extremely physical, including four fights and a cheap shot on Phil Kessel along the boards by Joey Crabb that earned Crabb a game misconduct. Fortunately Kessel was fine and even scored shortly into third period from the resulting power play. Shawn Thornton was visibly winded in his final fight with Boris Valabik. It’s going to be very interesting to see how this carries over to tonight’s game in Boston.

Hello-goodbye: Aaron Ward returned, but lasted only 62 seconds before leaving after what sounds like a re-aggravation of his ankle injury.

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