Dennis Wideman News

After being acquired at the trade deadline, Mark Recchi displayed leadership and a willingness to play hurt.

Five hundred and forty-five career goals. Two rings. If he scores a bunch of the former next season, Mark Recchi could win one of the latter.

There will be 46 players on hand for the four-day camp in Calgary in late-August, including Bruins [ team stats ] winger Milan Lucic, who continues his remarkable rags-to-riches tale as the kid who could barely make a junior team four years ago, but now personifies the ideal NHL power forward.

Boston and Toronto have certain communications issues. For the fans of a more vintage era: Does anyone remember the fax faux pas that involved Jonas Hoglund? When an errant fax machine pooched ... by Revo Boulanger 19 reads Opinion Boston and Toronto have certain communications issues.

Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli, maintaining that he still has his eye on a couple of players here in tomorrow night's NHL amateur draft, remains keen on moving up in the first-round draft order for a chance to land one of them.

Boston GM Peter Chiarelli, right, watches the Bruins practise during the playoffs with team VP and Hall of Famer Cam Neely.

The answer from Causeway Street as the weekend approached: they're working on it.

You can go through the 2008-2009 roster for the Boston Bruins and find a dozen names who you've never heard of.

When Dale Hunter watches hockey on TV, he's usually pretty dialed into the screen.

Board Member 1: I've never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.

Yesterday, Bruins coach Claude Julien made two things clear concerning Marc Savard : First, the center will be available for tonight's Game 7. Second, the knee-on-knee hit Savard absorbed from Carolina forward Chad LaRose in Tuesday's Game 6 was not a dirty play.

The Bruins also had Stanley Cup dreams at that point, and unlike the Canadiens' empty hopes, the Bruins' appeared quite valid.

The owner's got more of the right fits in the organization, he's got a Stanley Cup contender before fans expected it, and he didn't jack up ticket prices except for the very front row, a trend in all of sports.

I have a golfing friend who likes to crow after making a long putt that he knew it was in before he struck it.

Scott Walker's rebound shot with 1:14 left in the first overtime has given the Hurricanes victory in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

BOSTON a ' Bruins forward Marc Savard was on the ice at TD Banknorth Garden today for the morning skate before Game 7. Savard went knee-to-knee with the Canes' Chad LaRose in Game 6 in Raleigh, had to be helped to the bench and left the game.

AP Bruins' Chuck Kobasew is congratulated on his goal against the Carolina Hurricanes by teammates Dennis Wideman Milan Lucic and Patrice Bergeron, during the second period of Game 6 of the semifinal series in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday.

RALEIGH a ' The Carolina Hurricanes host the Boston Bruins tonight in Game 6 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals match.

Defenseman Dennis Wideman said part of it was that the B's simply were more composed with the puck, hanging on to it longer to make the right play.

If the Bruins can put just one shot on net for every time they spouted the cliches 'it's do or die' or 'our backs are against the wall' yesterday, they'll force Carolina goalie Cam Ward to make 60 saves tonight.