Matt Vautour

1 week ago | masslive.com | Matt Vautour

BOSTON — Maura Bagley was skeptical at the start of the phone call and nervous at the end of it. Bagley, who has been a season ticket holder since the early days of the Fleet Center, picked up the phone to a representative from the Bruins telling her that Cam Neely wanted to talk to her. Naturally she wasn’t sure what this was about. Was it really Cam Neely? And if so, why was the former Boston star-turned team president calling her?

1 week ago | masslive.com | Matt Vautour

BOSTON — The Bruins season is over, but they’ll have to scoreboard-watch before knowing their pre-lottery draft position. Boston could have sewn up the No. 4 spot with a regulation loss, but the overtime loss allowed Philadelphia, which lost to at least temporarily move into the No. 4 spot. Both the Bruins and Flyers have 76 points. If they stay tied Boston would be fifth and Philly fourth because the Bruins have more regulation wins. Philadelphia is at Buffalo on Thursday.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Matt Vautour

BOSTON — Roughly half of Bruins fans wanted a win. The rest wanted a regulation loss to lock up their best possible position heading into the NHL Draft Lottery. As it has all year, the 2024-25 season served up one last dose of frustration for all of them as they lost 5-4 to the Devis in overtime. Sixty minutes wasn’t enough to close out the regular season for the Bruins.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Matt Vautour

BOSTON — If Team USA calls, and Jeremy Swayman would be glad if they did, the Bruins goalie would like to continue playing as he tries to get his game back to the level it was a year ago. The IIHF World Championships will take place next month in Denmark and Sweden. The event annually features NHL players whose teams didn’t make or have been eliminated from the playoffs. Several Bruins will be candidates to suit up for their home countries.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Matt Vautour

It took Charlie Coyle a while to get going with the Colorado Avalanche, but the former Bruins forward is heading into the playoffs on a hot streak. After registering a goal and two assists on Sunday night against Anaheim, Coyle is on a six-game point streak and has 11 points — two goals and nine assists — in those six games. Coyle, who was traded at the deadline as part of the Bruins’ large-scale sell-off, had just two assists in his first 13 games with Colorado before heading up.