The Spoked B

Posted in Recaps No Comments October 14th, 2007

Thomas, posts, combine to beat Sharks

After a wild west shootout in Los Angeles Friday night, the Bruins fired mostly blanks against the Sharks tonight…particularly from the 2nd period midway through the 3rd when they had ZERO shots on goal.  However, they scored when it counted especially with a game winner from Aaron Ward with 12 seconds left…and just 26 seconds after Milan Michalek tied it up with 38 seconds left to play (a goal which, unfortunately I missed…I was watching the game bedside on my wife’s laptop via Yahoo.  The battery had five minutes of life on it at the time of Michalek’s goal, so I powered it off to finish watching the game on my office computer, but by the time I got there the game was over!)

Thomas had a great game tonight, as did the posts behind him.  Time and time again shots clanked off the cold metal on what appeared to be sure goals.  There had to have been at least four shots saved by the posts, but it felt like fifteen.

So the Bruins have wrapped up their only West Coast trip this year with a winning record.   Not too shabby!  The only left now is to clean the elephant dung out of TD Banknorth Garden and get ready for next Thursday’s game against the Lightning.

Posted in Recaps No Comments October 13th, 2007

Yeeeehaaaaa!!!!

The Bruins won a wild one in Los Angeles last night, besting the Kings 8-6. If you had 13 and the over in this game, you won.

I was at work last night listening to the game on NHL radio and could barely keep up with it. Every time I stepped away from my desk and came back, the score changed. Luckily, it was the Bruins who potted the most goals in net last night and came away with the win.

A few observations:

• Nice to see that defensive genius Dave Lewis’ work in LA is already paying off
• Phil Kessel racks up a hat trick AND an assist
• Marc Savard with a sweet five-point effort
• Milan Lucic picks up the Gordie Howe Hat Trick
• Sucked to have Brad Stuart score the 1st goal of the game for the Kings
• Speaking of “suck”, thus far, Manny Fernandez is doing just that

And now, if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to see some of tonight’s Bruins-Sharks game broadcast on Yahoo.