December 22, 2012

Opening Faceoff: Saturday, Dec. 22

Bruins teammates Patrice Bergeron and Tyler Seguin will be suiting up for Team Canada at the Spengler Cup in Switzerland. (Photo by Felix A. Eicher)

Good reads

Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli said he thinks there “still will be a deal” and that we’ll see NHL hockey in 2013.
Meanwhile, the players’ association moved one step closer to dissolving. Whee!
Patrice Bergeron and Tyler Seguin will be teaming up next week for … (dramatic pause) … Team Canada in the Spengler Cup. Womp, womp, womp.

Quick hits

In AHL action last night, Kris Newbury had two goals and an assist to lead the Whale to a 5-2 win over the Monarchs. For Connecticut, it’s just their third victory in the last 10 games.
In Providence, the B’s and Sharks combined for seven goals in the third period. Worcester had the last laugh, tying things up on a John McCarthy (Andover, Mass.) goal with 6:48 to go before Jon Matsumoto buried the game-winner with 11 seconds remaining in regulation, giving the Sharks a 5-4 victory.

History lesson

On this day in 2007, the Bruins lost by a score of 4-1 to the Blues. Rookie Milan Lucic dazing Barret Jackman in a fight was the lone highlight.

Entirely off-topic

Up until about three and a half minutes ago, I had no idea what Snapchat was. But now I have some sort of clue, and I also know that the always moral folks at Facebook are ripping it off with the Poke (tee-hee, poke!) app in an attempt to obviously dominate the disappearing dirty photos market. What a world we live in.

Jesse Connolly can be reached at jconnolly@hockeyjournal.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JesseNEHJ.