Bruins
11:30 a.m.: The majority of the Boston Bruins are real close to getting a little two-week, in-season break. Before they get there, however, they have some business to take care of.
The B's will close out their pre-Olympic break schedule on Saturday afternoon when they host the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden. It is the final game before the league breaks for the Winter Olympics with players across the league heading to Sochi to participate in the hockey tournament.
Before that happens, though, the Bruins will look to head into the break on a winning note. They have already done a nice job leading up to the break, as they enter Saturday's game on a 7-1-2 run in their last 10 games. The Bruins will be looking to bounce back after an overtime loss Thursday to the St. Louis Blues, a game that the B's scratched and clawed for a point despite trailing 2-0 in the third period.
'I think our guys have done a really nice job,' Bruins coach Claude Julien said after practice Friday. 'We're 7-1-2 I think at this point. Even [Thursday], to me, we should be at eight wins. We really played well and I thought we had as good of an opportunity to win that game as any. There was a tremendous amount of effort and focus.'
That's been even more impressive given the fact that the Bruins continue to play with a banged-up defensive corps. The B's were even more shorthanded Thursday and will be on Saturday as well with captain Zdeno Chara already in Russia where he was Slovakia's flag bearer for the opening ceremonies.
'From the back end, we're missing a lot of key elements there and it didn't seem to matter. I'm hoping to see the same thing tomorrow. The same kind of effort from everybody and if we can finish with that type of a game, there's a pretty good chance we're going to win. It's a good opportunity for us to leave on a positive note. I always find those things are important to leave on a positive note and feel good about ourselves. No matter what, if we can get that kind of effort [Saturday], it will have been a successful segment.'
The Bruins will have to deal with a Senators team that comes into Saturday's game having won its last two games. The Sens have collected at least a point in seven of their last 10 games, and they're still very much alive in the hunt for a playoff spot. Ottawa sits just one point out of the second wild card spot entering play on Saturday.
Puck drop from the Garden is scheduled for 3 p.m.
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