31+ min ago (829+ words) Despite the rarified air he is currently occupying, Morgan Geekie is not a player to demand his "flowers." We are now past Thanksgiving and Geekie " a player who just three summers was not even qualified by his former team, the Seattle Kraken " remains in a neck-and-neck race for the Rocket Richard Trophy with the most explosive player this side of Connor McDavid, Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon. Both have 20 goals after Saturday's games. And while MacKinnon has been the more complete offensive player " he's got 20-24-44 totals while Geekie is going for the Cy Young with 20-6-26 " Geekie's feat so far may be even more impressive than what the uber-gifted MacKinnon has done. The Avs are a juggernaut. The Bruins, simply put, are not. And there have been nights this season when, if Geekie isn't scoring for the B's, no one is. He's even…...

15+ hour, 25+ min ago (763+ words) The Bruins tried to give the game away on Saturday, but Jeremy Swayman refused to lose. After the B's coughed up two leads in the third period, Swayman stopped Lucas Raymond, Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat and Casey Mittelstadt scored the only goal in the shootout to lift the B's to a 3-2 shootout win over the Detroit Red Wings. Swayman stopped 24 of 26 shots in regulation and overtime and improved to 8-2 in November. The Bruins, outshot 13-4 in the third, could not preserve two one-goal leads in the third, with the second tying goal coming from Michael Rasmussen with 1:54 left in regulation with the extra skater on for Detroit . In OT, the B's had to kill off an Elias Lindholm penalty, their fifth PK of the game, and they did so. On the ensuing 4-on-4, the B's had a couple of decent…...

1+ day, 36+ min ago (686+ words) The Bruins were tied for the most games played (26) going into Saturday's divisional tilt against the Detroit Red Wings. That fact is showing up in the worst way possible. Already besieged by injuries, the B's added another body to the list with right shot defenseman Henri Jokiharju being moved to injured reserve with an unspecified injury and Michael Callahan was brought back up from Providence. Jokiharju joined the "unavailable" list that included David Pastrnak (unspecified), Charlie McAvoy (face), Viktor Arvidsson (lower body), Jordan Harris (ankle) and Matej Blumel (lower body). "It's a tricky injury. It could be days, could be'I don't know. So we have to manage that so Callahan will be back in," said coach Marco Sturm. Pavel Zacha, who missed Friday's game with an upper body injury, did take part in the optional morning skate and was termed…...

2+ day, 55+ min ago (802+ words) There were not many superlatives to be thrown around after the Bruins" 62 loss to the New York Rangers on Friday, but coach Marco Sturm made an exception for Casey Mittelstadt. The wing/center got better as the game went on and even scored one of the two Bruin goals in the loss. "I thought he was great," said Sturm. "I could tell already before the game that he would have a solid game because he wanted to play. And he didn"t care about anything else. I"m going to tell you this. A lot of guys would pull the chute, and he didn"t. So I give him a lot of credit." Mittelstadt played 17:14 and was very much a part of the B"s fleeting comeback attempt. He had started the game skating on a line with Marat Khusnutdinov and…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago (654+ words) With all the absences from their lineup, the Bruins needed to play about a perfect game to come out on top of the New York Rangers in the annual Black Friday matchup at the Garden. And the B's were far from perfect. The Bruins were already beset with injuries with Charlie McAvoy and Viktor Arvidsson out, but they also found out Friday morning that both David Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha were unavailable due to unspecified maladies. That forced Casey Mittelstadt, out since November 6, into the lineup without the benefit of a team practice and Georgii Merkulov was called up from Providence. Meanwhile, with Matej Blumel shifted to LTIR with a lower body injury he suffered on Wednesday, Riley Tufte was re-inserted into the lineup. The result in the first period was a predictably disjointed look. The Rangers took a 2-0 lead…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago (224+ words) The Bruins have been playing shorthanded for a long time now, but they head into the Black Friday matchup against the New York Rangers seriously depleted. Coach Marco Sturm told reporters that both David Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha are unavailable because unspecified "day-to-day" maladies. Because of that, Casey Mittelstadt, who has been out since October 30 with a knee injury, has been activated and, despite having not practiced with the team since that, is being pushed back into duty. Also Georgii Merkulov has been recalled. "I gave them a day off yesterday and it was something that came up today and so we have to wait till tomorrow," said Sturm. Sturm believes his team can overcome the losses. "It's very easy because we've done it before. I just told the group "I'm not worried at all,' because we've done it as…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago (612+ words) Much like the now-completed four-game road trip, the Bruins" game against the New York Islanders wasn"t perfect. But they got what they needed to enjoy their Thanksgiving " a victory. Jeremy Swayman made 39 saves " 18 in the third period " and the B"s got a pair of goals from Alex Steeves to sweep the season series with the Islanders with a 3-1 victory. The B"s managed just 14 shots, but three of them found the back of the net. And with Swayman doing his thing, that was more than enough. They didn"t even need a goal from Morgan Geekie. The B"s finished the trip at .500 with two wins and two losses. The night did not start off well for them. In a bid to goose more scoring out of his lineup, coach Marco Sturm made some tweaks. He inserted Matej…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago (687+ words) The good news for the Bruins is they have reaffirmed that they've got another goal-scoring threat beyond David Pastrnak in Morgan Geekie. The bad news? Right now, Geekie is the only player who is scoring goals regularly. As they try to break even in their four-game road trip on Wednesday against the Islanders, the Bruins have scored six goals in the first three games and Geekie has scored five of them. Mikey Eyssimont is the only play other than Geekie to score a goal on the trip, during which an overtime win in Los Angeles was sandwiched between losses in Anaheim and San Jose. The goal drought as even affected Pastrnak. While he's got five assists in his last five games "including a beauty on Geekie's goal in San Jose " and leads the team in scoring 11-18-27, he is without a…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago (595+ words) A parade to the penalty box put the Bruins in a hole out of which they could not climb and they dropped a 3-1 decision to the Sharks in San Jose on Sunday. The B's took six minors and it was Macklin Celebrini's power-play goal in the second period that stood up as the game-winner. The Bruins went into the third period down 2-0 but got back into the game with a goal from " who else? " Morgan Geekie. With the return of Elias Lindholm after nearly a month out, coach Marco Sturm tried some new line combinations with David Pastrnak on a unit with Pavel Zacha and Marat Khusnutdinov and Geekie with Elias Lindholm and Alex Steeves. But with the offense stagnant, he put Geekie and Pastrnak back together with Zacha in the third period and the line responded with a dominant…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago (116+ words) The Bruins appear to be getting some help up front. The B's activated Elias Lindholm from injured reserve prior to their game against the San Jose Sharks on Sunday (8 pm) and, to make room for him on the roster, placed defenseman Charlie McAvoy (facial injury) on the IR (retroactive to November 15). Lindholm's return would be a boost to a forward unit that has been down three top-six forwards (Viktor Arvidsson and Casey Mittelstadt remain out) as well as a fourth liner (Jeffrey Viel). Lindholm has been out of the lineup since suffering a knee injury against the Buffalo Sabres on October 30. Lindholm has 4-5-9 totals in 13 games....