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How Boston’s Top Line Exploits ‘Soft Space’

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By: Leon Lifshutz | Follow Me On Twitter @BruinsBreakdown

It’s well established that the Boston Bruins possess one of the best first-lines in the game of hockey. In addition to being extremely skilled, Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand, and David Pastrnak also have elite hockey brains. They’ve shown those smarts off on more than one goal-scoring sequence in their current series versus the Islanders.

One particular … Keep Reading

Boston Bruins Regular Season Report Card Final Grades

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

By the time you read this, the Boston Bruins will have already completed their first playoff game against the Washington Capitals. The playoffs are indeed a new campaign where regular-season individual performances are often rendered moot. Stars sometimes go missing and bit players can step up to be the hero. Nonetheless, we’ve made it to this … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: Boston Squanders Lead Before Losing In OT

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

Boston concluded their eight-game season series with New Jersey with an overtime loss. On the season, the Bruins managed a 3-3-2 record against a pesky, speedy, and opportunistic Jersey squad. The game highlighted a number of Boston’s strengths of late dominating possession and making plays off the rush. It also showcased some of their deficiencies such … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: Boston Nears Playoff Berth After Buffalo Bump

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

The Bruins concluded their season series against the Sabres with an emphatic win. After struggling through a horrid stretch mid-season, racking up points against lowly Buffalo was exactly what was needed to catch up to all the teams who were doing exactly that while Boston swooned. With the most recent win, number seven of eight against … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: The Win Streak Comes To An End

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

All good things must come to an end, according to the saying, and it is now a fact for the Bruins’ most recent winning streak. The Buffalo Sabres had the livelier legs and played pressure-free hockey, consistently using their speed to back off the Boston defenders. The Bruins pushed back late but were in too deep … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: Boston Beats Buffalo In The Skills Competition

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

How the Bruins perform against the Sabres in the coming weeks could dictate their season. While Boston was swooning at the mid-point of the campaign their contemporaries racked up points while taking advantage of a Buffalo team enduring an epic losing streak. Buffalo has been playing better of late but that was before the trade deadline … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: Team Effort Secures The Victory

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

Don’t look now but the Bruins are 6-2-2 in their last ten games following their 4-2 victory of the Washington Capitals. In a pretty even game, Boston was the more opportunistic of the two teams finishing their chances on four occasions on a less than sharp Ilya Samsonov. This game featured quality performances from all over … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: Battle For Playoffs Heats Up

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

The Boston Bruins sit in unfamiliar territory at the moment. They are fighting to stay above the playoff cut line in the group of death East division. With the Flyers’ victory in overtime, the margin is now just three points with two more contests between the two adversaries in less than a week. With 21 games … Keep Reading

Bruins Report Cards: What Scoring Issues?

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

The Bruins managed a seven to five victory in a game reminiscent of the 1980s. The theme was completed with several dog piles in this latter half of a back-to-back. Both teams played with a sense of urgency with Boston trying to solidify its spot in the top-four of the division and Pittsburgh needing the points … Keep Reading

Boston Bruins Grades At The Halfway Mark

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By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown

The Boston Bruins struggled through much of the second quarter and the individual player grades followed suit. On average, players drop a third of a grade in the second segment of the season versus the first. Below is an aggregate of the grades for each player in each quarter in addition to their mark for the … Keep Reading

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