Here is a little take on the deals that went down on trading deadline for the Boston Bruins. The B’s made two trades during the March 4th NHL trade deadline. They first sent F Petteri Nokelainen to Anaheim for D Steve Montador. Then followed that up by trading prospects Matt Lashoff and Martins Karsums to Tampa Bay for F Mark Recchi and a 2nd round draft pick. These two deals were to add depth to the Bruins roster. GM Peter Chiarelli wanted to hit upon two areas approaching the dealine; add a left handed shot on the powerplay and bolster the defense. He accomplished both of those with out breaking up the roster or throwing away the furture for one shot at the Cup. Although it is believed that a bigger deal was left on the table, the Bruins came on winners at the trade dealine.

The Bruins Get

Steve Montador
Position- D
Height- 6-0
Weight- 210 lbs.
Shoots- Right
Experience- 6 years
Age- 29

	Games	Goals	Assist	Points	Penaly Min.
Season	66	4	16	20	25
Career	356	18	49	67	586

 

Mark Recchi
Position- Wing
Height- 5-10
Weight- 195 lbs.
Shoots- Left
Experience- 19 years
Age- 41

	Games	Goals	Assist	Points	Penalty Min.
Season	63	13	32	45	20
Career	1473	535	891	1426	962

2nd Round Draft Pick From Tampa Bay

 

With a 6-4 win over Ottawa last Thursday, the Bruins finished the first half of the 2008-09 NHL season. And what a fist half it has been. Through the first 41 games the B’s sit atop the Eastern Conference, all while bring back remembrance of the big bad Black and Gold of days past. While the Bruins were filling the net with a league leading 154 goals, the fans were filling the seats and getting their money’s worth. Big hits, big goals, and fights galore reminded fans of the Bruins of the past. Whether it’s Milan Lucic doing his best Cam Neely impersonation, or Phil Kessel lighting the lamp in the same fashion Phil Esposito once did, your Boston Bruins are back in the main stay of Boston sports.

At this point last year, not much was said about the Bruins. They were just another professional team in Boston and very ordinary in the NHL. All the story lines were on the Patriots going for a perfect season while in the playoffs, the Celtics Big Three tarring apart the NBA, and Hot Stove reports surrounding the Red Sox.  It wasn’t for another couple of months later when the Bruins gave the city a glimpse of what hockey was going to be like from there on out. The B’s got Causeway St. excited about hockey again with an amazing game 6 win over the Habs in last years Stanley Cap playoffs. Losing game seven was only part of the foundation set by the Bruins, as a number of their young nucleus got to experience the NHL playoffs for the first time.

Alex Tanguay scored the shootout winner to give Montreal a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night in the Canadiens’ first home game in their 100th year. This mark the 12^th straight regular season win over Boston for Montreal, outscoring Boston 51-22 during the 12-game winning streak.

“Obviously, the first period, that’s not the start that we wanted,” Patrice Bergeron said. “We never stopped battling and we came back in the game, and I think that’s a big point, but we could have avoided going to overtime by playing well in the first period.”

David Krejci drove a slap shot from the slot off the crossbar and into the net 7:15 into the second period for an unassisted goal that cut the lead to 3-1.

Marc Savard, whose power-play goal 7:12 into the third made it 3-2, scored into a wide open net after Canadiens’ goalie Carey Price was caught behind the goal when Michael Ryder’s dump-in took a strange bounce off the right boards and over the back of the net. Savard scored his second third-period goal with 47.6 seconds left in regulation to tie it at 3.

Montreal Canadiens scored three power-play goals in the second period to beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 in exhibition action at the Belle Centre. Boston’s captain Zdeno Chara made is pre-season debut and scored the B’s lone goal on the powerplay. Manny Fernandez played a solid game making 24 saves. Essentially, it was the Habs potent powerplay that did the Bruins in. Boston played indiscipline which turned out to be very costly as all three Canadiens goals were with the man advantage.  Former Hab Michael Ryder made his first appearance at the Bell Centre since signing a three-year, $12 million free agent contract with the Bruins, and the sellout crowd of booed him whenever he touched the puck and chanted his name in ridicule much like the treatment Chara receives from the Montreal faithful. Ryder was playing with Marc Savard and P.J. Axelsson on what will likely be the Bruins top line this season.