Play-by-play voice of the Boston Bruins on NESN. Passionate, a little crazy, a chance-taker, an avid pursuer of happiness and the open exchange of ideas.
GAME 7 IS ON NESN.
DO NOT BELIEVE YOUR AUTOMATIC CHANNEL GUIDES.
DO NOT BELIEVE ANY PROPAGANDA OR DISINFORMATION.
GAME 7 IS ON NESN TUESDAY AT 7, WITH THE PREGAME AT 6.
BE.
THERE!
Happy Holidays! Contrary to misinformation (imagine that!), I am fit & healthy. I will not be in the booth for 2 more games: the Ottawa/Philly roady in January.
I look forward to calling years of Bruins games. I am enjoying a holiday week family vacation. First time in 17 years.
What NBC hasn’t shown yet, regarding the unfortunate injury to Svechnikov: the Carolina wing playing hobby-horse, riding Chara on the back apron of the goal. You poke the bear, you take your chances. No one wanted to see Svechnikov hurt, but he bit off more than he could chew.
ONCE AGAIN, FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION (INCLUDING THE LEAGUE'S OFFICIAL RELEASE ON THE START TIMES OF TOMORROW'S GAMES):
NESN WILL CARRY THE PLAY-BY-PLAY OF GAME 7, WITH PREGAME COVERAGE STARTING AT 6 AND THE GAME TO FOLLOW AT 7PM.
THAT'S NESN.
The Trump ad with the Fauci quote about “couldn’t imagine anyone doing more” running on TV currently is a lie. Fauci was talking about health workers, not Trump. Lying to the American public. The GOP sycophants’ position is silence.
Remember their names. Vote them out.
So let me get this straight: NHL Player Safety calls McAvoy onto the carpet. But Kukan’s elbow on Backes? Hornqvist’s targeting McAvoy’s head during the ‘18 season? Benning’s upward shoulder into Backes last fall? Nothing to see there.
Consistent inconsistency from NHL DPOS.
Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Lightning, heading to the Conference Final for the second time in 3 years. The better team won.
Deeper scoring, healthier and deeper D corps, better goaltending.
When it all calms down, Bs fans will realize the great run Boston had in 2018.
Don't go whining about free speech, Alex Jones. Just swallow your sewage and pay up. Couldn't happen to a more rotten scoundrel who chose to make himself rich by making innocent families more miserable after unspeakable tragedy.
Happy 420, everyone. Join us, not high above the ice, but in the NESN studio as we call the first of 3 away games in a row against Buffalo tonight.
6:30 START! Why? I don't know.
BUT IT'S A 6:30 FACEOFF ON NESN PLUS! Don't space it out.
Optional alternate audio feeds offering regional broadcasters to call the games for their fans would be a service to the faithful who have followed their teams, as their regional broadcasters have, game-in, game-out, all season long.
What does the NHL have to lose by doing that?
Yeah, “takes a lot of courage” to jump Chara from behind. Either that or Kane was wearing his IQ on his sweater (9). For those who have not been paying attention:
DON’T POKE THE BEAR.
Safe predictions:
1) This clip will live forever.
2) The will to win that drives this kid will earn him an extra letter on the front of his sweater some day.
Observation:
If it's Marchand on the intentional shoulder to pick the head at the beginning of this clip, he gets 3 games.
Time for the NHL to re-evaluate its list of Hub cities. The Vegas thing looks like a horrible idea now, given the virus trend in Nevada. How about reconsidering Boston, where a pay-attention populace HAS flattened the curve?
The Republican Party has failed. The concentric sycophantic circles expanding from a delusional madman, enabling his hateful regime, are culpable for today’s terror attack on our Capitol.
The President is a criminal. GOP’s failure to function with a backbone made this possible.
Last comment on the "offside" that called the goal: a player is allowed to enter the zone before the puck if he is in possession and control of the puck. If playing the puck with one's skate and traveling with the puck BETWEEN one's skates is not possession and control, what is?
Must be GameDay.
Even the youngest of Bruins knows that Mama wants them home by the SPECIAL START TIME of faceoff at 6:30, pregame at 5:30...
Game 3 Bruins vs Caps TONIGHT on NESN!
Zoomed in blurry off angle with the blue paint no longer a razor sharp line and THEY CALL THAT BACK. As if it mattered in the course of the play. Not conclusive and unimportant in the spirit of the game. This is what happens when replay gets inserted into the game. BS.
Thank you, Bruins fans, for being the most loyal and passionate people in all of hockey, reversing a trend in TV sports. The Bs on NESN rated higher this season than any time in 7 years.
NESN will have every first-round game after Saturday. Times are for 1-hour pregame coverage.
6:58 a.m. and a sign that the Bruins are back in circulation. Sorry my phone focused on the screen; I think this guy weighed about 255, but sure wasn’t 6’9”.
As a team of broadcasters who have been with the Bruins every day since they opened camp in September, we look forward to bringing you the coverage that only we can, starting with
@DaleEArnold
and the pregame crew Thursday night.
ONLY on NESN, not your 12-times-a-year network.
Congratulations to Barry Trotz and the Washington Capitals. They played the right way, a great combination of physicality, defensive layers, and thrilling skill. The best team won.
Even if you're not a hard core Bruins fan, you oughtta check out tonight's game at Colorado. Pregame at 8, Faceoff at 9 on NESN & streaming on the NESN app. The Avs are loaded, and the Bs are off to their first 3-0 start since the 2002 season. Pats fans, see ya during the ads.
How about this team?!!
Bruins have a chance to close it out Saturday in Boston.
There has not been a lead change in any game in this series. The team that has scored first never has trailed.
Postgame now on NESN.
Heeeeeeere we go!
We've only been thinking about Game 7 EVERY MINUTE SINCE WE ALL WOKE UP THIS MORNING, RIGHT?
Pregame warmup is underway. Rask and Andersen.
The play-by-play is on NESN at 7.
BEEEEE
THERRRRRE!
Time to focus. Eyes on the prize. Ignore the polls. Run up the score. Do what's right for America and vote the liars and sycophants out of office. Bring lunch, dinner, and plenty of protective clothing.
Vote as if your life and your children's quality of life depends on it.
Deslauriers was the guy Miller beat up that night in Buffalo, only to slip off balance and blow up his shoulder a few years ago.
Too bad the game isn’t on NESN. Our producer Brian Zechello and our replay room would have had that old bout ready to roll.
Normal? Not yet, but inching closer. Bruins and Flyers at TD Garden TONIGHT on NESN at 7. Wish you all could be there but at least Brick & I will be. You are what makes TD Garden rock... we know how lucky we are to be able to man our posts. Can’t wait ‘til you fill the seats.
Dougie Hamilton wears Whalers
#19
in a display of either complete ignorance or just a complete disconnect from the culture that makes hockey so great. The HFD/CAR franchise retired that number long ago. RIP, John "Pie" McKenzie. This is incredibly disrespectful to Pie's memory.
Opening faceoff shortly after 9pm on NESN & the NESN360 app... as the Bruins play back to back, having pulled one out at Edmonton... now they face Calgary.
BEEEE
THERRRRE!
btw... Thank you for all your love and support. Back atcha.
My Charts:
Good win.
Bergeron, Pastrnak, Hall, Krejci, Lindholm all score as the B’s begin their season 5-2 v the Caps.
Home opener v Arizona on Saturday at 7 on NESN, pregame at 6.
Beeee therrrre.
Early.
GAME ONE OF THE 2019 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS.
BRUINS AND MAPLE LEAFS.
TUUKKA RASK AND FREDERIK ANDERSEN.
NESN.
7PM.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
THERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fastest team to 50 wins in NHL History.
The Bruins spot Detroit a 2-0 lead and come back to win 3-2.
Tomorrow afternoon’s game is on NESN in New England.
See you from Detroit!
Well, THIS is a sign that the Bruins are looking for garbage goals (which makes Bruce happy).
Was awakened by the BOOM of the can getting knocked over and they laid siege to our yard (the Sabres’ zone tonight?) for 45 minutes!
Looking for 60 from the Bruins tonight!
7PM on NESN!
Whether or not it ends tonight, the people controlling the fake crowd noise in Edmonton should go for realism and play the sounds of a crowd booing when Bettman gives away the Cup.
And Gary should laugh. Job well done by the NHL and especially events maestro Steve Mayer.
All right, I usually don’t like it when NBC takes a game from us. But since I would be deadhead in Vegas for 3 days, I’m going skiing at Alta, Utah. Greatest Snow on Earth. I’ll keep ya posted.
No longer can I stand it, I can't stand it no more.
From the horse's mouth.
Mar-shond.
This is a pretty good source for the pronunciation of the man's name.
The Bruins retire Willie O'Ree's
#22
. What the man went through to play the game he loved, few of us understand. A fitting honor to a man of immense integrity and steadfast courage who broke hockey's color line.
Equal equals EQUAL. We're not there yet, but Willie got us closer.
Players can win games, Coaches can lose games, Replay can ruin games.
Bruins get a couple of days off to hit the reset button and they’ll try to get another win streak going at Detroit Friday night on NESN. Seeya then.
THAT was more like it. With the exception of one faulty third period backcheck, the Bruins played 60 full with intensity and selflessness. Playing to their standard, protecting the house, taking care of the puck.
Final in their final trip to MSG: 4-1.
They've turned up the A/C at TD Garden... getting chilly in here before it gets HOT tonight for Game 1.
See you at 7!
Pregame coverage begins at 6.
We live for this.
You cannot keep this Bruins team down.
Outstanding game from Rask.
Rick Nash cashes in twice.
Bergeron is Bergeron.
And the Bruins Tribe begins to hit it hard with the sun still high in the sky.
Keep it safe -- Game 2 on Monday night. Tweet ya then.
Have to laugh at those who argue that taking their AR-15s away is tyranny.
Years from now, will their grandchildren demand that the government not infringe upon their perceived right to keep hydrogen bombs in their garages?
"A well regulated militia." Time to regulate it better.
Well, the bone's not showing, so Chara is out there.
NESN with a 1-hour preview of Game 5 tonight live from the FanFest on Canal Street at 7pm.
BEEEEE
THERRRRRRE!
OK, back to supernatural reality.
@NHLTradeRumors
sends this pic taken over Saskatoon.
The sticks on doorsteps in hockey communities all over the world in honor of
#HumboldtStrong
... and... this in the heavens.
Speechless.
Chris Rooney and Gord Dwyer are the referees for game 4.
Puck in the net (missed, somehow, even though the most important thing in the game is the puck. Bergeron saw it.)
Backes goes to the quiet room for at least 15, taking an elbow to the head. Kukan gets a 2-minute minor.
I really love my job, and I wish we could call all 82. But tonight? This is misery just to watch.
Look for a significant correction tomorrow. Bruins at Buffalo at 7 on NESN.
ELIAS LINDHOLM WINS IT IN OT FOR CAROLINA....
SO IF THE BRUINS WIN IN ANY FASHION TOMORROW NIGHT THEY WILL TAKE FIRST IN THE ATLANTIC AND AND EAST.
6:30 PRE, 7:30 GAME ON NESN.
Ryan Donato will wear
#17
for the Bruins.
It's more than just a couple of digits sewn into a sweater.
Columbus brings a 7-game winning streak into town to face the Bs tonight at 7pm on NESN.
10-1.
We’ll Seeya Saturday as the Bruins try to go 4-0 on their first significant road trip.
B’s at Toronto on NESN. 6pm pregame, 7pm game time.
BE
THERE!
Bruins / Leafs Game 4 on NESN tonight at 7 after pregame starts at 6 from Toronto.
Buy lozenges, clean your shoes (or pre-emptively take them off) in case you are prone to using your couch as a trampoline.
Seeya tonight.
ALERT, PATRIOTS' FANS! We know you are dedicated to your favorite team, but the Bruins are playing the Buffalo Sabres at 5PM on NESN. Tune in during the ads! Tuukka Rask and Linus Ullmark are the starting goalies.
BEEEEE THERRRRRE! (At least for one set of downs, eh?)
The U.S. audience is not getting the SuperBowl in real time. My wife is overseas and is watching the world feed. She is 45 seconds ahead of us.
How does that affect in-game bets, Roger Goodell?
(I do not bet)
Three hours of sleep in Vegas; caught a flight to Salt Lake City; driving up toward Little Cottonwood Canyon. For pagans who pray for snow, this is a pilgrimage. It’s been 25 years since I have skied Alta. The mountain always wins, but every skier grins.
Heading to the hill.