This is getting ridiculous...

After starting the preseason 0-2-0, with two flat out ugly losses involving more whistles than when Brady Quinn walks by a construction site, the Boston Bruins hosted their divisional foe and defending Adams Division champion, the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Finally, the upgrades made by the team paid off, as the hosts got off to a fast start. Boston took the lead at 04:51 when Andy McDonald and Martin Havlat combined to assist offseason addition Patrick Traverse on his first goal of the season, as the defenseman fired a one-timer ast J-S Aubin to make the red light get dizzy.

You know... because it was spinning around and around. Try and keep up.

The joy was extended six minutes later when Andrej Meszaros notched his first goal with the parent club at 10:58 off of a Lars Jonnson redirection. The Bruins had not only a lead, but a two goal lead!

And of course, that would not last. Seven minutes later, following a Scott Balan roughing call and subsequent penalty kill, Mikko Koivu played "top this" with Bruin Saku Koivu and scored at 17:59 off of a Patrik Elias feeder. Out of frustration and somewhat desperation, at 19:33, Bill Guerin found himself sitting for a goalie interference call.

The penalty would be costly as the Bruins had to came out to start the second period on the penalty kill. As has been a multi-season trend, they started slowly and gave up the early power play goal at 00:36 of the period to Miroslav Satan, knotting the game at two.

Despite outshooting the visitors, thirteen to eight, in the period, the Bruins would not mount a serious offensive attack. They failed to score, even with a two minute power play advantage after Stephen Webb's elbowing foul, and managed to give up a third goal at 11:45 to Sergei Zubov.

Even worse, Tim Connolly had to leave the game midway through the period following a non-call injury. His condition was unknown at press time.

To put the game away, Satan added a second goal in the third period to make the final 4-2. The Bruins appeared winded in the third, being outshot by a nearly three-to-one margin, though the defense suffered when Lars Jonnson was ejected at 02:36 for a highsticking incident involving John Madden, who also left the game.

Elias, Satan, and Zubov swept the game stars category for the visitors as, in typical Bruins fashion, 17,565 fans went home sad. The Bruins will try - again - to break into the win column when they host the Columbus Blue Jackets.