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Former NHLPA executive director Ian Penny cites Chris Chelios as the reason for his departure from the association.

"I shouldn't have went,'' said Bruins winger Shawn Thornton moments after last night's 2-1 loss to the Devils.

The Bruins have holes to fill in their lineup, especially up front where this week they lost Milan Lucic and Marc Savard for most, if not all, of next month.

Patrice Bergeron scored the lone shootout goal and the Boston Bruins rallied late for a 4-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

Less than 48 hours after trading struggling forward Chuck Kobasew for draft picks, general manager Peter Chiarelli is at it again, trying to shake the complacency out of the Bruins.

The Boston Bruins traded forward Chuck Kobasew to the Minnesota Wild, the team announced Sunday.

Last night, the Boston Bruins and Minnesota Wild pulled off a trade: Craig Weller, a second-round pick, and the rights to prospect Alexander Fallstrom to the Bruins for right wing Chuck Kobasew.

Even before the Bruins' 4-1 loss Saturday in Phoenix, a game in which Boston showed zero fight once the Coyotes made it 2-0, Peter Chiarelli was not pleased with the atmosphere surrounding his players.

The first repair for the Bruins, now a listless 2-3 to start the 2009-10 season, must take place between their ears.

Because of his elite wrister and knack for finding seams from which to release his shot, Michael Ryder has a reputation of being a pure goal scorer.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the Bruins getting caught with their pants down on Thursday night, but it may interest hockey fans to know that defenseman Zdeno Chara 's 6-foot, 9-inch body is featured in various stages of undress in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine.

The defense hasn't been as sharp as it should be, the offense has been challenged, and the special teams have been anything but special.

All we know for sure right now about the Bruins is that something isn't right. In fact, a lot is not right.

The B's finished it off with another mistake-filled, defense-challenged effort in a 4-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche yesterday at the Garden.

For the first two periods of Saturday night's game, it looked like the Boston Bruins were on their way to another disappointing loss.

Bruins center Marc Savard goes to the backhand and the top shelf for the winning shootout goal, beating Dwayne Roloson.

Reducing some of their heavy lifting for next summer, the Bruins signed popular power forward Milan Lucic - one of 11 roster players whose contracts expire after this season - to a three-year, $12.25 million extension on Tuesday.

Here are the rosters for tonight's game between the Boston Bruins and Anaheim Ducks.

Milan Lucic certainly was the man of the hour at Ristuccia Arena yesterday, the day after he signed a three-year, $12.25 million contract extension that will have him unleashing his thunder for the Bruins [ team stats ] through the 2012-13 season.

Well before Steve Begin made his name as a hard-nosed, do-anything forward for Val-d'Or in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League - in his draft year, he had 13 goals and 23 assists with 218 penalty minutes, prompting Calgary to nab him with the 40th pick in 1996 - he understood that the narrower he defined his role, the more successful he would be.

He knew he didn't want to return to Phoenix, where ownership issues, sparse crowds and a lengthy rebuilding project had begun to sap his love for the game.

If the hype surrounding the Bruins leading up to Thursday night's season opener seemed a bit overwhelming, yesterday's morning-after session can be suitably classified as a day of recuperation.

's name on the Bruins ' official lineup card. The suspense about whether the B's rising star would complete his return from June hip surgery in time for tonight's season opener has been gone for a few days, although coach Claude Julien stopped just short of proclaiming the center ready to face the Capitals in Game 1. ``The official will be , but ...

The Boston Bruins won't sneak up on anyone this year, not after a surprising 116-point regular season in 2008-09. How good? They won't match last season's 53 wins, but they'll finish atop the Northeast Division and comfortably in the top four in the Eastern Conference.