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The Bruins have felt for a while now that they've been on the right track to finding their game.

Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik will not return to the game against the Bruins tonight because of an undisclosed injury.

If there is a word to describe the 2009-10 Bruins season, it would be disjointed.

For the one-night Seats for Soldiers event, fans and players donate tickets or buy them at a reduced rate to give soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines a seat at a game on home ice Thursday.

The Bruins' Mark Stuart and the Sabres' Jochen Hecht get punchy in the third period.

Boston's Mark Stuart, left, drops Montreal's Guillaume Latendresse to the ice with a check at center ice in the first period.

"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.

What's next? Zdeno Chara jumping on his bicycle and pedaling off into the sunset? Andrew Ference running off to join some environmental cult? Bodies have been dropping for the Bruins faster than stocks after 9-11, and yet despite that, the team has managed to continue its pattern of alternate losses and wins with a 5-4-1 record after last night's ...

This edition of the the Bruins game preview, we have NHL Examiner Chris Morgan to help out with the home team, Ottawa Senators.

Life without Milan Lucic and Marc Savard won't be easy, but the Bruins left here last night with another point tacked up in the standings, their third point in two nights, adding to their growing sense of resiliency in a season that already has tested their depth, patience, and physical well-being. "You have to stand up and show the coach he can ...

Written By: Mark "The Hard Hitter" Ritter Some games on the NHL schedule hardly register a blip, and then there are games like Thursday nights tilt between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Boston Bruins, an instant classic.

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.

The Boston Bruins will try to turn around their inconsistent start to the season when they host the sliding Nashville Predators tonight at TD Garden.

Lucic, who was injured Friday in Dallas, was placed on long-term injured reserve, which is defined as an injury that will sideline a player for at least 10 games and 24 days.

They skated well. They played a structured, defense-first system. They were stout in front of their goalie.

Cancel that missing-persons bulletin. The Bruins [ team stats ] , alive and well, reappeared last night at American Airlines [ AMR ] Arena.

Tim Thomas picked up his first shutout of the season with 27 saves, as Boston defeated Dallas 3-0 at American Airlines Center.

Finally, some passion from the Bruins . That most important Hockey emotion, absent in two of the first three games of the season, and most of the way in the fourth game against the New York Islanders , suddenly reappeared in the final minutes last night at the Garden, as the B's rallied gamely to erase a three-goal deficit and win, 4-3, in a ...

After the utter bungling of their personnel strategy before and after the 2004-05 NHL lockout, the Bruins were a team without an identity, provided you don't count the reputation as one of the softest and most disorganized clubs in the league.