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Thursday, 09 June 2011 02:02

Written by Seth Rorabaugh

Penguins

-Welcome back Bill Guerin (above).

Playoff Stuff

Canucks - Bruins

-Tim Thomas made 38 saves for the Bruins in a 4-0 shutout of the Canucks in Game 4. Rich Peverly scored two goals for Boston while teammate David Krejci recorded two assists. The series is tied, 2-2.

-Check out Peverly's first goal:

-Things got a little nasty between Thomas and Vancouver's Alex Burrows late in the game:

-A good look at the battle:

-“They’ve been getting the butt end of my stick. They’d been getting it a couple times on the power play in the first period. I don’t know exactly who it was. That was the third time he’d hit my butt end on that power play. I thought I’d give him a little love tap and let him know, ‘I know what you’re doing. I’m not going to let you do it forever.’ " - Thomas on the skrimish.

-Hit of the Night: Boston's Dennis Seidenberg on Vancouver's Daniel Sedin:

-Happy times for Boston's Brad Marchand:

-Marchand got the drop here on Vancouver's Daniel Sedin:

-Marchand had issues with Vancouver's Keith Ballard:

-Bright times for Thomas:

-The body language of Vancouver's Raffi Torres pretty much described everything here:

-Flexible times for Vancouver's Cory Schneider:

-After the game, injured Bruins forward Nathan Horton (concussion) presented Peverly with the team's "player-of-the-game" award, an ugly, weathered, tacky Bruins jacket.

-Peverly replaced Horton on the Bruins' top line.

-“I’d heard that he was O.K., but I didn’t know if O.K. meant he was going to live.” - Thomas on Horton.

-Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo was pulled early in the third period after surrendering Boston's fourth goal.

-The Canucks' once-vaunted power play is 1-for-22 in the series.

-Marchand is not particularly found of Vancouver's "Green Men."

-Hockey Night In Canada's pregame Montage from Game 4:

-This is a few days old, but here's Hockey Night in Canada's pregame montage for Game 3:

-Meh.

Non-Playoff Stuff

Atlantic Division

-"Philadelphia is a great city, a great organization, and a great team with a rich history. I am looking forward to meeting with Paul Holmgren to discuss the possibility of us working together for many years to come." - Former Coyotes goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov on having his signing rights traded to the Flyers.

-"...Unfortunately there appears to be a very big gap between the publishing media in Philadelphia today and the days of Benjamin Franklin. There doesn’t seem to be as much interest in being accurate as they were back then. We’ll never negotiate through the press. It’s not something I do and it’s not something fans much appreciate. The fact is there will be no disclosure by the Bryzgalov camp. Anybody that guesses at this point will be proven only to be one thing: a guesser and misrepresenting things to the public." - Ritch Winter, the agent for Bryzgalov.

Southeast Division

-"I definitely enjoyed Atlanta a lot. There are fans there and there were good crowds. It was fun to play there and I enjoyed it, the city and everything. But just the way the organization was run, it wasn’t up to standards that’s for sure. That’s all that needs to be said on that." - Defenseman Dustin Byfuglien (right) of the Thrashers franchise on the team's time in Atlanta.

Northwest Division

-Today is the 10th anniversary of the Avalanche's second's Stanley Cup title.

Adams Division

-Former Blackhawks forward Igor Radulov joined Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the KHL.

-The Chicago Cubs drafted Trevor Gretzky, a first baseman at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, Calif. and the son of you-know-who, in the 10th round of Major League Baseball's draft. No word yet if they plan on drafting Mark Messier's kid to do all the heavy lifting.

(Photos: Guerin-Peter Diana/Post-Gazette; Canucks/Bruins-Elise Amendola/Associated Press, Bruce Bennett/Getty Images, Harry How/Getty Images, Jim Rogash/Getty Images and Elsa/Getty Images; Byfuglien-Claus Andersen/Getty Images)

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