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Five. Five goallar. Five goallar Bruins gaaaaaaaaaaaaame. Suck it Rangers. Suck it Ryan Callahan. Suck it Henrik Softqvist. Suck it Rick Nash. Suck it Linda Cohn. Suck it Stan Fischler. Rask was a beast. Hey buddy, we already forgot. How many goals did your team score on Lundqvist while you were playing A LOT better than him again? If we forgot you and you're a Rangers fan, suck it. BUT THE RANGERS CAME BACK FROM BEING DOWN 0-2 AGAINST THE CAPITALS. Yeah. But Tuukka Rask isn't a freaking sieve. Chara has more talent in his nose hair than the entire Washington defensive corps combined. Ovechkin is a terrible leader with no heart. Basically, the Bruins are the opposite of the Crapitals. Lick our collective buttholes. - Bruins defensive scoring goals everywhere up in here. Bruins defenseman are scoring more goals than Rick Nash. - So ummm... that move by Krug to collect the puck and then score was absolutely ridiculous. We'd get more excited about Krug, but the names Kampfer and Hunwick jumped into our heads. Please be better than them Krug. He's been awesome. But so wasn't Hunwick and Kampfer for a while. We'd like to see Krug keep this up over a longer period of time. Still though, another great game by Krug. - Boychuk has been a shot blocking beast. He certainly understands it takes some pain to win. In his case a lot of pain. What a bad ass. - Chara blocking the middle of the ice and just letting Rask take on Nash on that 2 on 1 early in the second. Chara just blocked the passing lane and let Rask get a good look. Perfect play. - Boychuk deserved that awesome goal. Oh boy did he. He hit roughly 30 posts last game and has been playing his balls off. If you hate Boychuk, Jon hates you and your stupid ugly face. - Glad to see Pierre McGuire is back in the dating game with Ryan Callahan. Took Pierre forever to get over Mike Richards. - Shawn Thornton is TERRIFYING! - Campbell and Paille. Campbell scores. Paille messes you up with Campbell on the PK. Do something Rangers. Do something. - Bruins PK in general mother uckas. - The Bergeron-Marchand Connection. Again. - Rask made some perty saves. - Lucic certainly working hard to put all that regular season Whocic stuff behind him. He's finally throwing hits again and grabbed a goal. - King Who? - Milbury GM University is accepting new students. Only those with an IQ less than 10 will be accepted. - Hamilton and Marchand, what in the blue hell were you doing on the Rangers' first goal? - Games on NBC. - Pretty much any time Mike Milbury talks. At all. - Dorsett is the Colton Orr of this series. Bruins fans are pumped such a shitty player is getting way more ice time than he should. - Chara got buuuuuuuurned bad on that Nash goal in the second. Shit happens. Calm down Jimmy Murphy, no need to trade Chara because of that play. - Can Nicklas Backstrom of the Washington Capitals score 15 goals in 15 seconds? No, because the Captials blow and he's golfing. - Bruins power play is almost as ugly as Pierre McGuire. Almost. - Bruins were outplayed BADLY in the second. They got lucky the game wasn't like 10-2 Rangers going into the third. - Seguin couldn't be more invisible if he was Phaneuf. - Callahan, if you're going to come at Destroychuk with a late hit your face is going to get punched. Get the sand out of your vagina. - People who call assists "apples." Jon hates you. Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much. - Rangers fans saying being down 0-2 isn't a big deal because they came back agains the Capitals. The Captials couldn't win a series even if the other team didn't show up. Shudda you faces. - How the hell does Nash not get called for trying to cut Paille's hand off? Nash is just pissed th

New Bruins Hero Torey Krug opened it up today with a goal at 5:28 of the first period. Who's got more goals in the playoffs than noted superstar Rick Nash? Krug does. Awesome. The Rangers answered, but the Bruins pulled ahead yet again early in the second when Gregory Campbell put one in, assisted by Krug and Adam McQuaid. Krug: playing his way into the NHL since 5/17/13. Rick Nash got his second of the playoffs less than a minute after Campbell's goal -- but at 12:08 of the third, Johnny Boychuk's bomb made it 3-2. A fun note on that goal - with Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron on the assists, that was an entirely Providence Bruins home grown goal. Awesome. The Rangers wouldn't score again, but the Bruins weren't done, oh hell no. Milan Lucic and Brad Marchand added onto the goal pile -- and with their goals in the third, the Bruins officially scored more goals on Lundqvist than they ever had before (their high was three, ever.) WOW. It was also the first time Lundqvist had allowed more than four goals in 151 games. Amazing. Extra pluses: + Krug probably isn't going back to Providence. Sorry, Providence. But -- could he be the future PMD this team has been looking for all this time? + Rask looked pretty great today. The Rangers did have a few very good, solid chances -- and put 37 shots on goal. + Tortorella yelling at the refs was pretty great imo + Dan Girardi was on the ice for every Bruins goal, haha. + Gregory Campbell fought Derek Dorsett in the third period for no reason at all. Never really had an opinion on Dorsett but I'm liking him less and less as this series goes on. + 5QVIST BACK AT IT TUESDAY, WHO'S READY ALREADY? (I am)

Sorry there wasnt one of these in the second period! Bruins: 3 Rangers: 2 CAN THEY HANG ON???

Game two and then we head to New York. Whats on tap?

If the last two years were any indication, you would think the Bruins are the ones struggling on the power play in the playoffs. Instead, it’s the Rangers who are feeling the heat on the man advantage. Maybe it’s that the Bruins have a very good penalty-kill unit. Maybe it’s that Rick Nash hasn’t gotten going yet. Maybe it’s just that sometimes, power-play struggles in the playoffs happen when the Bruins are involved. NESN Nation’s Dan Duquette has more in the above video. Join NESN Nation: In-game home page | Twitter | Facebook

It seems like nothing can shake Zdeno Chara. The Bruins’ captain has been playing exceptionally well despite lining up next to some fresh faces. With Andrew Ference, Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden out due to injuries, Dougie Hamilton, Torrey Krug and Matt Bartkowski have been filling in — and Chara hasn’t skipped a beat. Chara has two goals and eight assists this postseason with 30:02 average time on ice. Chara’s general manager said the defenseman has been “a monster” this postseason. Check out the video above or go to NESN’s YouTube channel to hear Jack Edwards talk to Peter Chiarelli about Chara and how the Bruins’ postseason experience may help them late in games.

The Bruins’ fourth line has no shortage of fans around the Boston area, thanks to the unit’s energetic play that seems to come through just when the B’s need it the most. That line could also be a difference-maker during the team’s Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Rangers. According to NESN’s Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley, the Boston forwards could end up playing a key role in this series because the Rangers just don’t have the depth up front to match up with the B’s. On defense, however, the two tell a different tale. See what Jack and Brick have to say in the the video above or on NESN’s YouTube channel.

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Good afternoon from TD Garden, where the Bruins will look to swipe a 2-0 series lead over the Rangers.

The Bruins have won both Game 1′s of their first two playoff series. Hopefully, their follow-up performance in Game 2 will go a little better the second time around. After dominating the Maple Leafs two weeks ago to open the series, the Bruins stumbled their next time out and allowed the Leafs to even up the series. Doing that against a much tougher New York Rangers squad is not advisable. NESN Nation’s Dan Duquette has more in the above video. Join NESN Nation: In-game home page | Twitter | Facebook