Bruins injury update

The latest Bruin to get injured is defenseman Mark Stuart. Stuart suffered a broken sternum earlier this week and is expected to be out more than a month. That's not good news for the Bruins defense, hence why they recalled defensemen Adam McQuaid and Andy Wozniewski. Stuart's iron man streak will end at 196 consecutive regular season games (214 straight including playoffs) and has not missed a game since breaking into the NHL on a full-time basis in 2007-08.

Milan Lucic is expected to miss at least another week with the high ankle sprain. It looks like he may be back for the Winter Classic game at Fenway Park.

Dennis Wideman is expected to miss tonight's game vs the Chicago Blackhawks for undisclosed reasons, while Derek Morris is still listed as day-to-day.

Bruins injury update

In Monday's Bruins practice, defensemen Derek Morris and Dennis Wideman were missing as they had minor injuries in the last game vs Toronto. Also it is reported that Zdeno Chara has a minor injury from the Toronto game as well. Hopefully all three are back in the lineup on Thursday against Toronto.

Milan Lucic is making good progress with his recovery from a high left ankle sprain. Lucic talked about his injury:

"It's an injury where you can never really tell how fast or how long it's going to be just because it's got to be pain free before you get back," he said yesterday. "If you reaggravate it, you set yourself back and have to start all over again. That's why you have to be real careful with this high ankle sprain."
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I also saw an article on Stanley Cup of Chowder where Phil Kessel was trying to get Marc Savard to not re-sign with the Bruins. I thought this was hilarious. Why would Savard want to sign with Toronto which is obviously what Kessel was hinting at. Toronto is rebuilding and will be for the next few years and I don't think Savard wants to go through that.

Marc Savard was on Dale & Holley on WEEI this past Thursday. During the interview, Marc Savard mentioned that he stays in touch with Phil Kessel and Phil told him not to re-sign with the Bruins.

"Yeah, I have. We text a lot. He was obviously one of the guys telling me to wait and to not sign."

- Marc Savard when asked if he stayed in touch with Phil Kessel
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Bruins start slow this season

The Bruins haven't looked good this year, minus the second game vs the Carolina Hurricanes where they looked like last year's team. To me they seem not into games with the slow starts. The hitting has really not been there in the first two periods in most of the games. The Bruins have their first road trip this season starting on Friday where they take on the Dallas Stars. It's only a 2-game road trip though. They'll take on the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday. Hopefully things turn around on this road trip for the Bruins.

The Bruins are currently 2-3-0 through five games with four points and tied for third place with the Montreal Canadiens in the Northeast division. They have a total of sixteen goals scored and nineteen goals scored against them.

A few interesting stats: defenseman Derek Morris is a -4; David Krejci and Milan Lucic have 0 goals. Mark Stuart is playing well with a +4 rating (leading the Bruins in that stat).

Tim Thomas is 1-2-0 with a 4.00 GAA and a 86.8% save percentage. Tuukka Rask is 1-1-0 with a 3.39 GAA and a 88.3% save percentage.

Bruins sign Derek Morris

TSN.ca is reporting that the Bruins have signed defenseman Derek Morris to a one-year contract for $3.3 million. So with this signing the Aaron Ward trade makes a little more sense. But still I think $3.3 million for Morris is a bit high but I'm hoping he can play the way he use to back in his Calgary Flames days. Morris brings more offense to the game than Ward did, but I think Ward was better defensively. I'm thinking Morris will be paired with Zdeno Chara and that should be an interesting pair. Also Morris is known for getting injuries so hopefully that doesn't happen this coming season for him. Now we just got to wait and see what happens with Phil Kessel as with this signing I'm not sure how much room in the cap there is for him.

This will be the fifth NHL stop for the Edmonton native who also patrolled the blue line for the Rangers, Coyotes, Avalanche and Flames during his 10-year career.

In 75 games last season split between New York and Phoenix, the 30-year old Morris had five goals and 15 assists.

Morris was originally a first round pick, 13th overall by the Calgary Flames in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft.
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