Out of any of the pending free agents the Boston Bruins have hitting the open market this summer, Jake DeBrusk was always going to be the one that attracted the most interest from other clubs. According to Toronto Star columnist Nick Kypreos, one team believed to be pursuing DeBrusk is none other than the Toronto Maple Leafs. “The Leafs continue to look at all options when it comes to their top six forwards next season,” Kypreos wrote on Wednesday. “There’s word they may have interest in pending Bruins free-agent Jake DeBrusk, who’s been a Leafs playoff killer over the years.” Nick Alberga, th ..read more

A month had passed since the Boston Bruins were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs by the New Jersey Devils for the second consecutive year when Brian Burke, then working for the National Hockey League, announced outside a hotel in East Rutherford, NJ, that the league was about to crack down on the interference that was ruining the game. The Devils, coached by Jacques Lemaire, had become a hot topic of discussion as his team bore a hole through the 1995 playoffs with a series of “upsets” and were now halfway to a shocking sweep of the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings in the Cup series ..read more

Boston Bruins superstar winger David Pastrnak is heading home to join his native Czechia at the 2024 IIHF World Championships in Prague. In his end-of-the-season media availability on Sunday, Pastrnak told Amalie Benjamin of NHL.com that he would be flying back home to Czechia on Sunday night to join his country mates.   David Pastrnak is going to play for Czechia at worlds. He leaves tonight. — Amalie Benjamin (@AmalieBenjamin) May 19, 2024   Through six games in the tournament that began on May 10, Czechia (4-1-1-0) was atop Group A on Sunday with 15 points. The Czechs led Canada ..read more

The Florida Panthers avoided a deep hole by winning a game without Sam Bennett, and now the Boston Bruins will have to do at least that much without Brad Marchand. That’s the task tonight when the teams meet at 6:30 pm ET for Game 4 at TD Garden. A loss and the Panthers go home dormie, as in par the fifth hole, sign the scorecard, get ready for the Rangers. What gets said below will get salty, but it’s not borne of outrage, only reality based on five-plus decades experience. First let’s address the series. The Atlantic Division-winning Panthers were rusty for Game 1 against a Boston Bruins tea ..read more

The less-is-more Boston Bruins have something to say, and coach Jim Montgomery said it late last night after his team had vanquished the Toronto Maple Leafs. “Number one: Block out the noise.” The noise said the Bruins are chokers. The noise said the Bruins were about to become the only major professional sports franchise ever to blow a 3-1 series lead in consecutive years. The noise said that Don Sweeney is a regular-season general manager and that Montgomery is a regular-season coach who fixes things that aren’t broken. The noise said the Bruins have no powerplay and it will cancel their cha ..read more

It was seven heaven for David Pastrnak and the Boston Bruins on Saturday night as they eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs in seven games. That and more in your Boston Hockey Now Bruins Daily: Boston Bruins Boston Hockey Now: The Boston Bruins survived blowing a 3-1 series lead and beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 in overtime on a goal by star winger David Pastrnak. Boston Hockey Now: David Pastrnak not only had no issues with it but also agreed with his criticism after Game 6 from head coach Jim Montgomery. Boston Hockey Now: The Game 7 Banner captain for the Boston Bruins was former captain a ..read more

After scoring the overtime winner in Game 7 to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1, Boston Bruins winger David Pastrnak credited his head coach’s public challenge for Pastrnak to ‘step up’ after a 2-1 Bruins loss in Game 6. “Your best players need to be your best players this time of year,” Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery pointed out after the Maple Leafs once again kept Pastrnak off the scoresheet and forced a Game 7 after being down 3-1 in the series. “I think the effort is tremendous, but they need to come through with some big-time plays in big-time moments. Marchand has done that in ..read more

Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery asked his star winger David Pastrnak to step up after Game 6, and that’s exactly what he did in Game 7. Pastrnak scored the overtime winner 1:54 into the extra frame to give the Bruins a 2-1 overtime win and eliminate the Toronto Maple Leafs. After neither team scored in the first two periods, the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs traded goals in a span of 1:21 midway through the third period. Maple Leafs winger William Nylander scored his third goal in two games when he took an Auston Matthews feed and buried it past Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman at ..read more

Former Boston Bruins captain and longtime center Patrice Bergeron was the Game 7 Banner captain before the Bruins hosted the Toronto Maple Leafs at TD Garden on Saturday night. It was only fitting that the man who led the miraculous Game 7 comeback against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 7 of the first round in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs got the nod. Ironically, just like in that 2013 series against the Maple Leafs, the Bruins blew a 3-1 series lead in this current series. So, clearly, the Bruins were hoping that their former captain, who scored a last-minute goal in 2013 and then the overt ..read more

If the Boston Bruins want to win Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and avoid becoming the first pro sports team to blow a 3-1 series lead two straight seasons, then they will need to will their way to the net. In the famous words of Public Enemy and Anthrax: “Turn it up! Bring the noise!” The Boston Bruins have hardly brought a peep to start the last two games, getting out-shot 11-2 in the first period of their 2-1 Game 5 loss and then 12-2 in the opening frame of Game 6, another 2-1 defeat. The inability of the Bruins to get pucks on net or down low to create havoc in front of former Bos ..read more