Eastern Powers Clash – Bruins Host Penguins Monday Night
The marquee matchup on the NHL Monday night schedule takes place in Boston where the Pittsburgh Penguins return to Boston where they saw their playoff dreams end last year.
Two of the Best Do Battle Thursday Night – Bruins Host Blues
The Boston Bruins return home Thursday night to take on the #3 team in the overall standings, the St. Louis Blues. Both teams are certainly trending upward and have identical 7-2-1 record over their last 10 games and both consider themselves contenders as the season wears on.
The Houston Rockets will host the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night at the Toyota Center in search of their third consecutive win, while the Celtics will be looking to halt a three-game losing skid.
The Boston Celtics may have begun the year 0-4, but they’ve since gone 4-1, proving that they’re not the doormats they were once presumed to be. The Portland Trail Blazers have also been exceeding expectations, as they’ve gone 6-2 through their first eight contests.
Tampa Bay vs Boston NHL Line & Handicapping
A Monday morning match up features two of the best teams in the league. The Tampa Bay Lightning come in with the most points (24) in the Eastern Conference. While the Boston Bruins have 21 points which is good for 4th in the loaded Atlantic Division.
Forgetting how the final out was recorded the Red Sox did it again using one big blast to decide the game yesterday, in this case it was a three run homer off the bat of not even supposed to be in there Johnny Gomes – talk about building a legend.
The Boston Red Sox lost Game 3 under very controversial circumstances and now have to find a way to get momentum back on their side in a hurry with Game 4 on deck, and the St. Louis Cardinals ready to take a stranglehold on the Series.
The St. Louis Cardinals pumped some life back into their World Series hopes with a 4-2 comeback win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night, and now look to take a stranglehold on the series as it shifts to St. Louis for three straight games.
The Boston Celtics went just 41-40 last year, and they were dispatched of pretty quickly in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Danny Ainge decided in the offseason to speed up the rebuilding process and ship off a couple long-time Celtics stars. It wasn’t necessarily a popular move at first, but I think it ends up being a big boost to the Celtics hopes in the long run.
The Boston Red Sox will get their first look since 2008, at the Cardinals, when they host St. Louis in Game 1 of the 2013 World Series on Wednesday night at Fenway Park.
Things just keep getting worse for the Celtics, as they are not only coming off a shocking loss to the weak Charlotte Hornets, but they lost another guard in Leandro Barbosa, who was recently lost for the season with a knee injury.
The Grizzlies have turned around their franchise from also ran to making the playoffs but you have to wonder if this group can really expect to make the next step.
In what will be the first nationally televised broadcast of the 2012-13 season, the NBA is starting things off right with an Eastern Conference matchup between the rival Boston Celtics and Miami Heat.
About a month back it looked as if the Yankees had the AL East wrapped up, but they have not been playing great while the red-hot Orioles and Rays have played well. New York is now tied atop the division with Baltimore and Tampa Bay is only 2 games back.
Atlanta has been struggling lately but they won the last two games of their series against the Yankees and are in the thick of it in the NL East race.
The Boston Celtics had a chance to finish out this series at home in Game Six, but LeBron James and the Heat absolutely dismantled the Celtics from the opening tip.
