Patrice Bergeron News

Last September, Patrice Bergeron was well on his way to recovering from his Grade 3 concussion and preparing himself for 2008-09. Jeff LoVecchio was not.

The Boston Bruins have a lot of tough decisions to make prior to the 2009-2010 NHL season.

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.

Mark Recchi wanted to play another season in the NHL, and he wanted it to be in Boston.

Yet when each was acquired by the Bruins [ team stats ] , he became an immediate fan favorite at the old Garden.

As NHL revenues went up and up, so did teams' willingness to lavish obscene contracts on unrestricted free agents with very good timing.

ESPN.com is reporting that the Philadelphia Flyers will battle the Boston Bruins at Fenway Park for the January 1st 2010 NHL Winter Classic.

Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said yesterday that he'd like to move up a slot or two in the first round of the NHL draft Friday night in Montreal.

Ah, the summertime blues. Yards filled with grass growing out of control, stifling humidity , coordinated mosquito attacks that would make Dracula blush, traffic jams, ... by Revo Boulanger 8 reads Opinion Ah, the summertime blues.

Maybe not. But the veteran Bruins [ team stats ] defenseman is certainly a fascinating fellow, who leads the sort of rich and varied life all us non-athletes fantasize we'd live in his shoes.

In three short seasons, GM Peter Chiarelli has infused the Boston Bruins' roster with so much talent youthful talent, to boot that this off-season, like last, will require him to make only a handful of moves to keep the B's humming along.

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

Season series: Montreal won all eight of their meetings against Boston. Outlook: This appears to be the biggest mismatch since the Vancouver Canucks played almost anybody else down the stretch.

Patrice Bergeron might be among the young hockey players, but experience is not something he lacks.

Neither the hip surgery David Krejci is schedule to have today nor the shoulder repair that Phil Kessel just had will change Peter Chiarelli's mind.

As Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli put it, he had been working on an extension for David Krejci for "a while." Yesterday, those negotiations paid off for both sides.

More compelling than their 53 wins and 116 points, the Boston Bruins gained reentry into the spiritual quadruplex sports world familiar to New Englanders before a 2008-09 regular season that flirted with franchise history books.

Former Titan forward Dany Masse was a key member of this year's Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champions, the Drummondville Voltigeurs.

Boston's defense played plus-18 hockey in the playoffs, which ranks second to Detroit among remaining teams.

It was rather appropriate when Stephane Yelle appeared in the Bruins' locker room for a game-day interview and strolled across the hockey lines on the carpet, stopping on a defensive-zone faceoff dot to face the music.