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Bruins raise banner, lose opener
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October 8, 2011, Saturday
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The Boston Bruins hoisted the Stanley Cup champions banner to the rafters on Thursday but their National Hockey League season opener fell flat with a 1-2 defeat to the Philadelphia Flyers.
In other opening night games, the Vancouver Canucks, who lost to the Bruins in Game 7 of last season's Stanley Cup finals, went down 3-4 in a shootout to the Pittsburgh Penguins while the Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the Montreal Canadiens 2-0.
The Bruins savored the sight of the bright yellow banner being raised to the roof of the TD Center in Boston, where it will hang next to five others won by the Bruins.
"We've waited long enough. The wait is over. Let's get this damn thing up!" exclaimed team owner Jeremy Jacobs.
Boston kept the party going by drawing first blood on a first-period powerplay goal from Brad Marchand but the Flyers hit back with a pair of goals 47 seconds apart by Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek.
The contest then turned into a goaltending duel between Flyers prized free agent signing Ilya Bryzgalov and Bruins goalie Tim Thomas, who was coming off a season where he won the Vezina Trophy as top goalie and Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player in the playoffs.
Netminders were also in the spotlight in Toronto where James Reimer stopped 32 shots to notch the shutout as the Maple Leafs launched their season with a satisfying victory over their Original Six rivals from Montreal.
The Maple Leafs, wearing 1967 throwback jerseys to mark the last time they won a Stanley Cup, are under immense pressure to end a record playoff drought and are counting on Reimer to lead them back to the postseason for the first time since 2004.
After just 37 appearances, the Maple Leafs felt they had seen enough to tab Reimer as their starting netminder and signed him to a three-year US$5.8 million contract extension.
In other opening night games, the Vancouver Canucks, who lost to the Bruins in Game 7 of last season's Stanley Cup finals, went down 3-4 in a shootout to the Pittsburgh Penguins while the Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the Montreal Canadiens 2-0.
The Bruins savored the sight of the bright yellow banner being raised to the roof of the TD Center in Boston, where it will hang next to five others won by the Bruins.
"We've waited long enough. The wait is over. Let's get this damn thing up!" exclaimed team owner Jeremy Jacobs.
Boston kept the party going by drawing first blood on a first-period powerplay goal from Brad Marchand but the Flyers hit back with a pair of goals 47 seconds apart by Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek.
The contest then turned into a goaltending duel between Flyers prized free agent signing Ilya Bryzgalov and Bruins goalie Tim Thomas, who was coming off a season where he won the Vezina Trophy as top goalie and Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player in the playoffs.
Netminders were also in the spotlight in Toronto where James Reimer stopped 32 shots to notch the shutout as the Maple Leafs launched their season with a satisfying victory over their Original Six rivals from Montreal.
The Maple Leafs, wearing 1967 throwback jerseys to mark the last time they won a Stanley Cup, are under immense pressure to end a record playoff drought and are counting on Reimer to lead them back to the postseason for the first time since 2004.
After just 37 appearances, the Maple Leafs felt they had seen enough to tab Reimer as their starting netminder and signed him to a three-year US$5.8 million contract extension.
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