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The Boston Bruins assigned centre Yan Stastny to Providence of the American Hockey League on Thursday. The Bruins recalled Stastny on Wednesday, but he did not play in their 4-3 shootout win over Pittsburgh. Stastny, 24, is in his second season with the Bruins after being acquired along with Marty Reasoner and Milan Lucic for Sergei Samsonov on March 9, 2006. In 11 games with the Bruins this season, Stastny ...

The Boston Bruins recalled defenceman Mark Stuart from their AHL affiliate in Providence before playing the Florida Panthers on Monday. Stuart, the team's first-round pick in the 2003 draft, has been recovering from off-season knee surgery. He was assigned to Providence on Nov. 7 and had a goal and three assists in four games. Stuart had one goal and an assist in 17 games for the Bruins last year, and ...

Chris Drury scored two power-play goals and the Buffalo Sabres improved to 8-0 to match their franchise best start, beating the Boston Bruins 6-2 on Saturday night. Jason Pominville and Maxim Afinogenov scored 1:39 apart early in the second period to open a 4-1 lead for the Sabres, who matched the 1975 club record for consecutive victories to start a season. Buffalo has also won a franchise-record 13 straight in the regular season. Ales Kotalik also scored for ...

A trip home was all the Bruins needed to get back on track. Glen Murray scored two goals and Boston snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night. ``The difference between how we played on the road and how we played tonight is that we weren't scrambling as much,'' forward Brad Boyes said. ``Tonight we were all on the same page.'' The Bruins started the season with five straight road ...

Mike Dunham, filling in for an injured goalie Rick DiPietro, stopped 31 shots to help the New York Islanders beat the Boston Bruins in their home opener 4-1 on Saturday night. Jason Blake scored twice and made a gorgeous pass to assist on another goal for the Islanders. Mike Sillinger and Tom Poti, both making their Islander home debuts, also scored. Glen Murray had the only goal for Boston, as the Bruins ended their five-game road trip at ...

Lee Stempniak scored in regulation and then had the game-winning goal in the shootout to lift the St. Louis Blues to a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins in their home opener Thursday night. Bruins goalie Tim Thomas held the Blues scoreless for the first 56 minutes, but the Blues, who were shut out in their last game, scored twice in a 2:30 span late in the third period to ...

Kari Lehtonen got the record out of the way. Then he got started on another scoreless streak. Lehtonen set an Atlanta mark for shutout minutes before finally giving up a goal on a deflection, and the Thrashers won their third straight by defeating the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Wednesday night. After back-to-back shutouts, Lehtonen learned that he was closing on the record held by Michael Garnett. ``It was kind of weird to go to the game and ...

Patrice Bergeron scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period and Brad Boyes had a goal and an assist in the Boston Bruins' 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night. Bergeron gave the Bruins a 3-2 lead 1:39 into the third when he scored off a pass from Boyes after a Tampa Bay turnover. Wayne Primeau also scored for the Bruins, who lost 8-3 at Florida on Friday night in their season opener. ...

Todd Bertuzzi wasted little time making a good impression on the Florida Panthers. Bertuzzi had a goal and three assists _ his first four-point night since Feb. 25, 2003 _ in his Florida debut, and Joe Nieuwendyk had two goals and an assist as the Panthers opened the season with an 8-3 win over the Boston Bruins on Friday night. Alex Auld, who came to the Panthers with Bertuzzi in the off-season trade that sent all-star goalie ...

Six-foot-nine defenceman Zdeno Chara, the tallest player in the NHL, is the new captain of the Boston Bruins. Chara, 29, was a major off-season signing by the Bruins after he left Ottawa as a free agent. The only other Slovak-born players in league history to wear a C on their chests were Peter Stastny (Quebec Nordiques) and Stan Mikita (Chicago Blackhawks). ``Zdeno's leadership qualities have been apparent from the time ...

The Boston Bruins have selected Zdeno Chara to be the 18th captain in the club's 82-year history. Patrice Bergeron and Glen Murray were named assistant captains. Chara, 29, a key free-agent signing by the Bruins last summer, becomes the third Slovakian-born player to wear a captain's C for an NHL team. Peter Stastny was captain of the Quebec Nordiques from 1975 to 1980 and Stan Mikita was a co-captain of ...