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Spooner, Bruins veto Senators
After losing six games straight to open the door for other teams to get back in the playoff race, the Bruins (34-22-10) have won three straight and six of eight. Loui Eriksson added the other Bruins goal. Matt Puempel scored for Ottawa (30-24-11) as Craig Anderson faced 22 shots in his second straight start after […]
Hockey: Bruins ground Red Wings
BOSTON (AP) — Boston coach Claude Julien believes his team showed what it can do when it’s pushed into a tough spot. That added desire helped them come through a two-day test with consecutive victories. Daniel Paille scored twice, including once short-handed, and Brad Marchand also had a short-handed goal to lift the Bruins to […]
Vermont shakes off Maine in overtime, 3-2
Junior center Jonathan Turk’s goal with 3:55 remaining in the first overtime gave the University of Vermont a 3-2 victory over the University of Maine on Sunday night at Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vt., sending the Catamounts to the Hockey East quarterfinals. Seventh seed Vermont is now 20-13-4, while the 10th seeded Black Bears wound […]
B’s, Marchand pick off Flyers
BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s Brad Marchand worked harder during the offseason to be stronger late in games. The Bruins were sure glad he was out there Saturday. Marchand scored the tying goal and the game-winner in a 3-2 overtime victory against the Philadelphia Flyers, helping the Bruins in their fight for the Eastern Conference’s eighth […]
Hockey playoffs: Maine slips past Vermont
The University of Maine’s men’s hockey team extended its Hockey East first-round series to a third and deciding game as the Black Bears received a pair of goals from senior left wing Connor Leen to beat Vermont 4-2 Saturday night at the Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vermont. Vermont won Friday night’s game 4-2. Game three […]
The Hot Corner: Hockey’s perfect punctuation for high school winter sports
The Maine Principals’ Association and the high school sports establishment preserve the best for last, every year. Ten winters ago, when the sanctioning body restructured the basketball tournament due to changing needs and moved the Class A showcase from the first two weeks of March to February vacation, hockey took over as the terminus of […]
Bruins experience flame-out in shootout
BOSTON (AP) — Sean Monahan scored Calgary’s first goal at Boston in more than eight years, and the Flames earned their first road win against the Bruins since 2003 with a 4-3 shootout victory on Thursday night. David Schlemko ended the shootout in the eighth round with a series of fakes on Boston goalie Tuukka […]
College hockey playoffs: Maine stumbles in first game
The University of Vermont Catamounts erased a pair of one-goal deficits and used Brendan Bradley’s goal with 2:07 left in the game to snap a 2-2 tie and post a 4-2 victory over the University of Maine in the first game of their best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series Friday night at the Gutterson Fieldhouse in […]
The Hot Corner: Saints … Devils … playoffs … as it should be
LEWISTON — Whaddya say, St. Dom’s and Lewiston hockey loyalists? Same time, same place, next year? Few administrative decisions in high school athletics elicit more hand-wringing, objection and outright bellyaching than Maine Principals’ Association class structure and assignment of schools. Even Tuesday, as hockey’s Class A final four prepared to lace it up at Androscoggin Bank […]