Way to go BRUINS !! GAME 7 OT 5-4 WIN Over Toronto !!

A Wounded Bear....

A Wounded Bear is a very, very dangerous animal....The Vancouver Canucks found that out tonight in Boston.... THE BOSTON BRUINS will work back to VICTORY one game at a time....Vancouver will learn that tangling with a Wounded Bear is not something any sane person would consider.

Sweet revenge: B's clobber Canucks 8-1
By: Mike Petraglia - WEEI.COM

The Bruins responded to a late, devastating late hit on Nathan Horton with a four-goal second-period explosion and manhandled the Canucks, 8-1, Monday night in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals. Game 4 is set for Wednesday night in Boston before the series returns to Vancouver for Game 5. Tim Thomas stopped 40-of-41 shots in another brillant playoff performance.

Just over five minutes into the game, Horton skated into the offensive zone on his second shift of the night and was leveled by a late hit from the blindside by Canucks defenseman Aaron Rome. The Bruins top-line forward was laid out on the ice for several minutes and examined by Bruins medical staff before a stretcher came on the ice to take him off. Horton was taken to Mass General and had movement in all extremities but is expected to stay there for further evaluation. Rome was given a game misconduct.

The two teams played a scoreless tie in the first, with the Bruins managing just six shots. But just 11 seconds into the second period, Andrew Ference fired a shot on Roberto Luongo from the left point and it found its way through a screen and past Luongo, who would give up all eight goals on the night. Four minutes later, Mark Recchi received credit for a goal that went off the stick of Ryan Kesler for Boston's second power play goal of the series and Recchi's fourth of the playoffs.

With Luongo shaken and the Canucks playing wrecklessly with the puck on the power play, Brad Marchand broke in alone and scored shorthanded as the Vancouver goalie dove forward and left the net open. David Krejci then added his NHL-leading 11th of the playoffs with 4:13 left in the period to cap the second period domination.

After the Horton injury, the Bruins won the physical battle, outhitting the Canucks, 40-31. Shawn Thornton, who drew the penalty that led to Recchi's power play goal, was inserted into the lineup to replace Tyler Seguin and provide a physical presence. He was tossed from the game with 12:02 left in the third on a misconduct. Later, Andrew Ference, Dennis Seidenberg and Milan Lucic were thrown out as were Alex Burrows, Daniel Sedin and Ryan Kesler.

The Bruins lost their shutout when Jannik Hansen scored on the doorstep with 6:07 left.

IN THOMAS WE TRUST - A SALUTE OF SUPPORT TO THE BOSTON BRUINS FROM THE 26TH YANKEE DIVISION

The enclosed picture is located at FOB PHOENIX near Kabul Afghanistan. This is where the 26th YD YANKEE DIVISION, 181ST INFANTRY is located.

The 26th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. As a major formation of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, it was based in Boston, Massachusetts for most of its history. Today, the division's heritage is carried on by the 26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade.

The 26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade ("Yankee"[1]) is a Combat support brigade of the United States Army. Its headquarters is maintained by the Massachusetts Army National Guard. It is the modern incarnation of the 26th Infantry Division.

These men(and ladies) don't know the meaning of the word " QUIT" and they are steadfast in their support for the BOSTON BRUINS.....

We maybe down 2 games - 0 BUT we can fight on just like the 26th YD has done and will continue to do !

To the BOSTON BRUINS from AFGHANISTAN - FIGHT ON !! WE ARE PULLING FOR YOU !

The BOSTON BRUINS head out to Vancouver in the QUEST FOR THE STANLEY CUP

Those of us who are older than a certain age,(and I'm not telling you what age that is), can remember the days of "The Big Bad Bruins". Boston was a huge hockey town and playing "pond hockey" with your friends was the sport of choice in the winter. We would get dressed up, my Mom would hand us a bag lunch and we would head out to the local pond in the woods for an all-day hockey fest. Each of us would want to be Bobby Orr or Phil Espisito...These were our Heroes and Hockey was huge...Every kid wanted to find new hockey skates & a new hockey stick under the Christmas Tree.

As time went forward, Hockey lost some of the luster after the Bruins became regular cellar dwellars...we had the 1980's USA Olympic Team which had many hometown players from the Boston area. The Bruins teams we had in the late 1980s and early 1990s had some of the best players we had seen in Cam Neely, Ray Borque and Andy Moog. Those were good days but still no Stanley Cup while the other teams in Boston,(Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics) all made efforts to once again stand on the top of the mountain....Only the Bruins lagged behind.

NOW, we will see if the 2011 BOSTON BRUINS can recapture the magic and the title of the BIG BAD BRUINS....THIS will be good.

‘It’s unbelievable!’
Fans fired up as B’s skate into finals
By Ira Kantor
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - The Boston Herald

Hundreds of devoted fans clamoring for a long-sought Stanley Cup triumph sent their hometown heroes off with cheers at TD Garden yesterday, as the Bruins [team stats] headed for Vancouver and a brutal battle with the Canucks.

“It’s the first time they’ve advanced to the finals since I’ve been alive,” said Colleen Donovan, 21, of Lynn. “It’s long overdue. We don’t have any passengers on this team. Everyone’s up front.”

Season-ticket holder Danny Fortunato, 54, of Beverly brought along his son, Michael, 18, who was not only wearing a Bruins jersey coated in autographs but also was draped in a Bruins flag. The die-hard fans have a Bruins “shrine” in their home full of team paraphernalia.

“The players are really into the fans and vice versa. You can just feel it throughout Boston — it’s like a family atmosphere,” said Danny Fortunato, a social worker. “You don’t see it every day like this. You got to take it all in. We’ll be following them the whole way.”

“I will not move,” added Michael Fortunato, “I don’t want to a miss a second of it.”

Fans proudly draped in black and gold stood behind a yellow barricade in the Garden’s parking lot chanting, “We want the Cup!” and, “Let’s go, Bruins!” as star players, including defenseman Johnny Boychuk and center Tyler Seguin emerged from inside to slap high-fives and sign autographs.

“It’s unbelievable,” Boychuk told the Herald. “Everybody’s dream is right now. We just got to make sure we fulfill that dream.”

Seguin called the fan support “phenomenal.”

“Everyone wants the Cup back here in Boston,” Seguin, 19, told the Herald. “If hockey wasn’t in Boston the last few years, it definitely is right now.”

Game 1 of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals takes place tomorrow night in Vancouver. The Bruins have not won a Stanley Cup since 1972.

“It’s such an awesome feeling,” said Julie Happel, 45, of South Weymouth, who came to the Garden with her husband, Fred, and sons Michael, 9, and Sean, 4. “It’s true hockey at its best.”

Jay Dellisola of Lynnfield said he encouraged his two sons Alex, 14, and Jack, 7, to stay up late on school nights to watch the Bruins’ nail-biting playoff games.

“I was 7 when [Bobby] Orr won us the Cup, now (Jack’s) 7. It’s a sign,” said Dellisola, who predicted the Bruins would win in six games. “I don’t think they’ll let this chance fly by. It’ll be a great two weeks.”