Rangers herd a victory

After the extended break for The Great "Um... Anyone Seen Ryan?" Debacle of Summer 2006, the Boston Bruins took to the ice under the leadership of Interim General Manager gorn, filling in for regular General Manager Joshua Anderson, who was spending days on end driving on the one-way streets in Luxembourg, trying to find his damned hotel.

The Bruins sported a new look line-up under Gorn, who has won multiple championship trophies in several leagues and believed the task of keeping the Bruins in contention would be a cakewalk... until he viewed the roster. The exact quote overhead in discussions between the two GMs was "Dude, what the hell are you doing to me?"

The Bruins, frustrated by their recent slide, brought out their beating sticks early, getting whistled for a double minor misconduct less than two minutes into the period, as well two additional misconducts in the first. All told, the Bruins served almost half an hour in the penalty box for various infractions.

Matt Spiller spun the red light first, scoring only his fourth of the year at 10:20 of the first period. The score stayed 1-0 as blood was shed, but with only sixteen seconds left, Tim Connolly netted his twelfth of the year by catching a sleeping Mike Dunham in the shoulder, causing the puck to trickle in.

Somehow, the second period was clean in terms of penalty, though not play. The Rangers scored twice, as Radek Dvorak and Alexei Ponikarovsky put the home club up 3-1 with their period book-end goals.

Pavel Bure joined the action by coming to life in the third period. He was all the offense of the first half of the third, scoring twice to make the score 5-1 and chasing Andrew Raycroft from the crease. Sean Brown then managed the rare back-to-back penalties, whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct minor at 10:16, getting out at 12:16, the penalized for a highsticking double minor seven seconds later.

With the man advantage, JP Dumont scored a power play goal to close out the scoring for the hosts. However, ever gracious, they did allow Keith Tkachuk to add a garbage time score to cover the spread and make the final score 6-2.

The Bruins will return home to host the Tampa Bay Lightning, who light up the Bruins every time they visit, tomorrow.