David Pastrnak

Bruins-Ducks Game Preview With Projected Lines

Bruins Benders Podcast Bruins Game Day Preview Game 7: Anaheim Ducks (2-4-0) at Boston Bruins (7-0-0) Date: Thursday, October 26 Time: 7:00 pm TV: NESN Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines: Anaheim +1.5 Boston -1.5 O/U 6 Boston Bruins Notes: Bruins are off to their best start in 86 years. The 1937-38 […]

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Bruins-Blackhawks Game Preview With Projected Lines

Bruins Benders Podcast Bruins Game Day Preview Game 6: Boston Bruins (5-0-0) at Chicago (2-4-0) Date: Tuesday, October 24 Time: 8:30 pm EST TV: ESPN Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines: Chicago +1.5 Boston -1.5 O/U 6 Boston Bruins Notes: Bruins are off to their best start in 86 years. The 1937-38 […]

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Bruins-Ducks Game Preview With Projected Lines

Bruins Benders Podcast Bruins Game Day Preview Game 4: Boston Bruins (4-0-0) at Anaheim (1-3-0) Date: Sunday, October 22 Time: 8:30 pm EST TV: NESN Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines: Anaheim +1.5 Boston -1.5 O/U 6 Boston Bruins Notes: The Bruins have started the season 4-0-0 for the first time since […]

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Bruins Shuffle Lines Ahead of Thursday’s Game

Boston Bruins Head Coach Jim Montgomery is not against switching up his lines as last season, the first-year Bruins coach would often do, including in-game. Coming into this season, Montgomery wasn’t so sure he would tinker with the lines much due to several new players. However, citing “not much 5-on-5 offensive generation”, Montgomery rolled out […]

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3 Takeaways From the Bruins 3-2 Win Over Nashville

The Boston Bruins won 65 games last season, setting an NHL record in the process. To start this centennial season, the Bruins are off to a good start again after a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators at TD Garden on Saturday night. James van Riemsdyk scored his first two goals with the Bruins, both […]

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Bruins-Predators Game Preview With Projected Lines

Bruins Benders Podcast Bruins Game Day Preview Game 2: Nashville Predators (1-1) at Boston Bruins (1-0) Date: Saturday, October 14 Time: 7:00 pm EST TV: NESN Radio: 98.5 The Sports Hub DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines: Nashville +1.5 Boston -1.5 O/U 5.5 Nashville Predators Notes: Predators won their home opener 3-0 over the Seattle Kraken on […]

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Picking a Captain for Every NHL Team Without One

Heading into the 2023-24 NHL season, ten teams currently do not have an official captain. That number could change before the season starts, but most of those teams likely will not have a captain this year. NHL teams are not required to name a captain, but what if they were? Who would be the best […]

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Boston Bruins' Jeremy Swayman (1), Charlie McAvoy (73), Hampus Lindholm (27) and Brandon Carlo (25) celebrate after defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets during an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston Bruins 2023-24, a Positive Perspective

Never has a rollercoaster derailed quite like the Boston Bruins’ 2022-23 season. Blessed with extraordinary goaltending, an embarrassment of riches offensively, and a rock-solid defensive core, all of which was blown to smithereens by a 92 point Florida Panthers team that eked their way into the playoffs due, in large part, by a Pittsburgh Penguins […]

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Boston Bruins: Hall’s Money Well Spent

After sending Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno to Chicago last week, many fans had hoped that Tyler Bertuzzi signing in Boston would be the end result. I had my doubts that I also wrote about, and ultimately, Bertuzzi ends up in Toronto. Many fans have been up in arms about that, desperate for a Bertuzzi-like […]

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Opinion: Signing Tyler Bertuzzi Means Moving Brad Marchand

About 360 days ago if you said that Bruce Cassidy would be a Stanley Cup champion in 2023 fans would be celebrating down Causeway. So long as you didn’t mention he would be coaching the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Well, that wasn’t how it was supposed to go now was it? Back in New England […]

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