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Public Skate: Bruins vs. Rangers

Welcome to the weekend, folks! The Bruins will host the New York Rangers at TD Garden in an early afternoon game, making it one of those times where a standalone preview doesn’t make a ton of sense. Instead, you get: the Public Preview! Preview Skate? Either way, it’s a two-for-one deal. The Rangers come into […]

about 5 hours ago | 0 reads

Morning Skate: Heat

Happy Friday, folks! Here’s to hoping you have a good day heading into a good weekend. The Bruins did their part to boost your mood last night, beating the Calgary Flames 4-1 at TD Garden. The B’s got goals from four different players: Mason Lohrei, Sean Kuraly, Elias Lindholm, and Casey Mittelstadt. Joonas Korpisalo played […]

1 day ago | 0 reads

Public Skate: Bruins vs. Flames

Welcome to Thursday Night Hockey! Catch the fever — it’s another game between…oh no, the Bruins and the Flames?!?! NOT AGAIN! Anyways, here’s to hoping we see more entertainment and less slop than we saw in Calgary. One can dream, right? Bruins! Flames! Discuss.

2 days ago | 0 reads

Bruins RECAP: Bruins receive another painful lesson in 7-4 LOSS

Well hey, guess what. We’re the easy target now. First Period Things didn’t start ideal with a penalty kill, and it became a 5-on-3, and it especially didn’t go great with Jordan Eberle getting oodles of time and space to score a goal with the man advantage. 1-0 Kraken. Mercifully, David Pastrnak is still here! […]

3 days ago | 0 reads

Bruins Preview: Boston takes on Seattle to end road trip

Just the Facts Game Preview So those Kraken, a team a lot of people sort of wrote off as directionless with too many albatross contracts and too few high-end scoring talents…appear to be third in the division and have one of the best records in the Pacific over the last ten games. This season’s theme […]

4 days ago | 0 reads

WJC 2026 Wrap-up: Sweden finally goes Golden!

10,000 years of IIHF hockey, man. This tournament rules. Bronze Medal: Canada finally ends the medal drought in a 6-3 drubbing of Finland! Now that’s a medal win. Game Notes Gold Medal: Sweden at long last tastes gold in 4-2 dissection of the Czechs I get the feeling Sweden didn’t want history repeating itself in […]

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4 days ago | 1 read

WJC Medal Round PRIMER: Breaking Curses or Making History

What. A. Tournament. How we got here Relegation Game: Germany finally gets going in a rout of Denmark See ya in a couple of years, Denmark. Quarterfinal Matchup 1: Sweden strikes Latvia down in 6-3 slugfest I still believe in you, Latvia. Quarterfinal Matchup 2: Czechia cruises to easy 6-2 Victory over Switzerland I think […]

5 days ago | 0 reads

Morning Skate: Stateside

Welcome to a new week, folks! If you’re a boring, 9-5 office worker like me, this is the week when the “eh, I’ll get to it after the holidays” rent comes due, so good luck to all of you out there. The Bruins completed the Canadian portion of their road trip over the weekend, beating […]

5 days ago | 0 reads

Public Skate: Bruins vs. Canucks

Welcome to Saturday night, folks! We’ve got our first Bruins game of the calendar year. Time to start fresh and all of that good stuff…except maybe not, as it’d be nice to see the B’s replicate their last performance of 2025. The Canucks are not a good hockey team, so this game should be there […]

7 days ago | 3 reads

WJC 2026 Quarterfinals PRIMER: When it Counts

Welcome back! The World Juniors this year was, in a lot of ways, kind of like the NHL season so far; we know exactly one team is good. The rest? Shown flashes but ultimately extremely flawed. Which has made naturally, for an extremely fun tournament. Very few games have felt noncompetitive and that’s only because […]

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8 days ago | 0 reads

Morning Skate: Milano

Happy New Year, folks! Hopefully you had yourselves a decent stretch of “what year is it” days, as we now find ourselves in another one of those limbo Fridays before the real world returns (for many) on Monday. The Bruins, in surprising fashion, ended 2025 on a high note with a 6-2 win over the […]

8 days ago | 1 read

Public Skate: Bruins vs. Oilers

Welcome to the last Public Skate of 2025, folks! You’ve skated publicly 80-something times (or close, I estimated) this year, and we always appreciate your participation. Hopefully tonight’s game won’t inspire another round of searching the comments for ways to describe how bad the game was, but beggars can’t be choosers. Tonight looks like a […]

10 days ago | 1 read

2026 WJC Day 5 RECAP: Baltic Jubilation, Teutonic Humiliation

The middle-powers played today! Game 1: Switzerland blanks Germany 4-0 I think the Germans are in trouble. Game Notes Game 2: Latvia and Denmark have a boat race of a game, Latvia wins 6-3 Game Notes Games Today Game 1: Stoic Switzerland vs. See-Saw Slovakia Switzerland has played some low event, crushing games that has […]

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10 days ago | 0 reads

Morning Skate: Point

The bad news: the Bruins lost again. The good news: at least they got a point this time? The B’s dropped their sixth game in a row last night, losing to Calgary 2-1 in overtime. Connor Zary scored a PPG two minutes into OT to give Calgary the win, a goal that was some sort […]

11 days ago | 1 read

2026 WJC Day 3 & 4 RECAPVAGANZA: Stages Set

Hi! Sorry, I had an ear infection that wiped me out! Anyway, here’s day 3 and 4! 2026 WJC Day 3: Scandinavian Supremacy Game 1: Sweden pulls themselves together in time to win 4-2 Game Notes Game 2: Latvia explodes into blood in 8-0 blowout at the hands of Finland Can you chill, Finland!? Game […]

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11 days ago | 0 reads

Public Skate: Bruins vs. Flames

Welcome to Monday Night Hockey, folks! Fresh off of a sound defeat at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres, the Bruins begin their Western Canada swing with a stop in Calgary. These Western Canada road trips are usually good measuring sticks for East Coast teams, but the Bruins aren’t exactly firing on all cylinders at […]

12 days ago | 2 reads

Morning Skate: West

Welcome to a new week, folks! I find myself still firmly in that “what day is it?” post-Christmas haze, so I didn’t realize the Bruins were playing in Calgary tonight until this morning. We won’t have a full preview for you, but consider this a mini-preview and place to gather until the Public Skate. The […]

12 days ago | 2 reads

2026 WJC Day 2 RECAP: Closer than it should be

Some of the higher powers of this tournament decided they wanted to scare the living daylights out of their fanbases on Day 2. Game 1: Germany disappoints in 4-1 loss to Slovakia You got my hopes up for that? Game Notes Game 2: Canada is put into a position to survive Latvia again. This time […]

13 days ago | 0 reads

Bruins RECAP: Boston gets hard dose of reality in 4-1 Loss

That dose is that the skill drop off between Boston and Buffalo is a lot steeper in Buffalo’s favor than in Boston’s. 1st Period Things started okay for the Bruins! After a faceoff in the neutral zone went for Boston, the B’s recovered the puck and gave it to David Pastrnak, who put a bullet […]

14 days ago | 1 read

Public Skate: Bruins vs. Sabres

Welcome back from the brief Christmas break, folks! Hopefully you’ve had yourself a good few days as we wallow in the no-man’s-land portion of the calendar between Christmas and New Year’s. The Bruins will have no more time to wallow, as they jump back into the fray against the red-hot Buffalo Sabres. Bruins! Sabres! On […]

14 days ago | 1 read