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#1 Have Vision and Then Break It Down Into Manageable Chunks
Great goals begin with a great vision. As Steven Covey put it, you must begin with the end in mind. What is your long-term vision of success for yourself? Where would you like to be in 5 to 10 years? Envision your ideal future and make the experience as real as possible. Then, make these goals. Once you have the long-term goals established, ask yourself what do you need to do this year to be able to achieve those long-term goals, and then it becomes easier to figure out what you need to do this month, this week, and today to turn those goals into a reality.
I'm not taking credit for this cool acronym that stands for making your goals Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-specific. Sometimes we get really vague with our goals and that gets us nowhere, you've got to make them incredibly concrete and things that you can actually measure—preferably with numbers. We may be feeling especially motivated and set pie-in-the-sky kind of goals that are simply unrealistic. When we don't achieve them or even come close, we just give up. Also, your goals need to be things that you have control over. For instance, I don't make goals of how many articles I want to publish, rather, I make goals of how many articles I want to submit for publication. Make your goals relevant to what is most important to you, the areas in which you have some drive. Finally, make sure that your goals have a specific time deadline.
#3 Accountability: Research Goals Groups
I think that lacking real accountability is the reason why most people's goals don't make it past January. Boice (1989) conducted a study in which he compared three groups: one which wrote in large blocks of time, another that kept daily records of their writing, and a third that kept daily records and reported this to others. You'll be surprised by the results! The group that wrote in large chunks of time had only written or revised 17 pages at the end of the year, the group who kept records wrote 64 pages, and the group that kept records and reported to others wrote 157 pages!!! Quite a contrast, eh? What a difference some accountability can make. So here are my specific recommendations as outlined in Publish and Prosper (pp.21-22):
During the first week, I recommend having everyone begin by writing their long-term, five-year goals. Knowing the big picture of where you want to end up will get you motivated to make the smaller goals along the way. I would then list out some of the one-year goals and challenge the group to make the goals quantifiable so you can clearly discern whether or not the goal has been achieved.
After that, you can all make goals for the week (with the end purpose of taking the steps necessary to reach your longer-term goals). Again, the key for these weekly goals is to make them very concrete and quantifiable so it will be very clear whether the goal has been achieved. The deadline for achieving the goals will be by the next meeting (preferably the following week at the same set time, though meeting every other week could also work).
During the meeting, one person should write down (or type out) all of the weekly goals as set by each group member. This is important as it provides a public record of the goals so individuals can't modify their goals midweek to fit their achievement. During subsequent meetings, each person reports how they did in achieving their goals and then describes his goals for the upcoming week. (For more suggestions on making this work well, see Publish and Prosper.)
Group Goals
Adhering to these four ideas will not only give you focus, but will add a sense of urgency to your research. This will motivate you to reach new heights of achievement that you have never experienced previously. For some helpful exercises to help you implement these strategies, visit www.pepstrategies.com. Until next time, happy writing!


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 2:19 PM
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a resident of Waverly Park
on Nov 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm
"in northwestern Mountain View"
Shouldn't the area east of Shoreline be northeastern MV?
a resident of North Whisman
on Nov 27, 2012 at 3:48 pm
I agree with you, Jim, that the area described sould be northeastern Mountain View.
I also noticed that groundwater sampling is being conducted this week on Devonshire Ave near the Superfund sites.
Perhaps The Voice staff can find out if this is related to any EPA studies, since I have not seen any announcements from the City about this.
a resident of North Whisman
on Nov 27, 2012 at 10:45 pm
NW Resident--all of the homes in the groundwater sampling area got an EPA flier describing the purpose of the tests. They are checking concentrations of TCE in the groundwater. Here's a scan of the flier I got:
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a resident of North Whisman
on Nov 28, 2012 at 8:50 am
Tony - thanks for the link to the EPA notice. It provides a good overview of the sampling locations and background on this activity.
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In short: My first half marathon and it was brilliant. The atmosphere made up for rather dull city suburb scenery.Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Awesome, I'm Still SmilingIn full: I still struggle to believe I beat my PB (by 47 secs) with some of the hills on the course. The scenery is inspiring, the organisation is better than many 'bigger' events, the people are friendlier, and even the muddy field at the end made me smile! This will remain on my race calender for years to come.Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Excellent Race and great organisationDate of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Needed the distance markers and water station! Also a bit dull in terms of sceneryDate of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Good race, as always and enjoyable eventIn full: Good value race and the rain held off - justNice wide track therefore plenty of room for overtaking or being overtaken, just like F1Well done Silsoe joggers & MKACDate of review: May 4, 2005
In short: As always, a thoroughly enjoyable race.In full: When God sets out his annual weather plan, does he look up the date of the Silverstone 10K on the RW website and think to himself, "right, that'll be wind and rain on May 3rd then." I mean, a glorious weekend and the wind and wet descend on Northants almost as if predestined. But seriously, terrific race and one absolutely made for beginners, I think. Like Arnie, I'll be back...Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Great 'local' feelIn full: Terrific crowd in the villages, and even the sheep in the fields seemed to take interest. Kirkbymoorisdie brass band added to the atmosphere at the start. Very well organised from car parking through to drinks stations. More enjpyable in many ways than some of the big 'set piece' town races. Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Chilled Bank Holiday RunIn full: I enjoyed this. It was close to home, it was a lovely day (the sun did smack me a little on the second lap - but hey - I'm not complaining about that). As we ran out of the stadium I realised that we'd be doing the Church Road hill twice - which was frightening - but we managed. I enjoyed the route.I would do this one again, purely for the fact that I can walk home, it's a course with hills and flats, at this time of year parts of it are lovely.Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: The scenerey more than made up for the poor (ish) organisation.In full: Quite scary dodging the cars and caravans through grange and back down borrowdale. Took my mind off how sore my legs where though. Great fun trying to get the car off the field at the end. Marshalling was terrible, water stations were great, finish on field was rubbish, atmosphere was suberb. All in all made for an intersting and memorable day. I'll be back next year.Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Fantastic experience. Water at halfway would've been goodIn full: You have to run round this circuit at least once.The organisation was good, but water at 5K would've been necessary had it been warmer.Great experience, and will definately be back next yearDate of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Fairly flat, wonderful surface, good atmosphereDate of review: May 4, 2005
In short: If the crush leaving the stadium could be averted this would be a great raceIn full: Crush at the start aside another pb for the year means there can not be much wrong with the course.Date of review: May 4, 2005
In short: enjoyable runDate of review: May 4, 2005
In short: Well organised with encouraging marshals. A memento would have been good.Date of review: May 3, 2005
In short: A great race for all F1 fans!!!In full: This is the second time I have done this race, and is a nice course for a fast time weather permitting (last year during the first lap we had an Hale storm!!!). Can feel like a training run with lack of spectators.Date of review: May 3, 2005
In short: Challenging first marathon for me, a beginner.In full: More toilets please - I had to dash into my sister-in-laws house at M4. I was surprised at the number of walkers who pushed their way to the front at the start and then blocked everyone behind them while they walked. Some bits of the scenary were lovely, but others quite industrial. They ran out of lucazade for those of us who finished at 5 hours, which was not great. The extra mile due to the bomb scare caused me lots of problems mentally in assumed lost time - but at least I can say I ran an ultra at 27.1 miles. I was stopped for a truck in the industrial section, which broke my rhythm. The drunks in the Army Barracks at M22 hurtling abuse were also less than encouraging. Overall I expected better. Northern Ireland has so much to offer - it could/should be a great marathon that attracts many more entries.Date of review: May 3, 2005
In short: A Challenge - not a race - one to find the route - the other to finishIn full: Organisers need some help from the runners.could not believe how long it took to get my number on the day.If the entry form says route will be marked - then IT HAS TO BE MARKED - whether or not a map is handed out.If the event is to grow - just needs a few tweaks - in any case a great challenge !Date of review: May 3, 2005
In short: A nice course, a few hills but seemed to be more downhill than uphill overall, even though the start and finish were close to each other! Will be back.Date of review: May 3, 2005
In short: tough course but fun . very enjoyableIn full: took a while to find it could do with a few more signs however once there everything ran like clockwork be back next yearDate of review: May 3, 2005
In short: Fast but boring routeIn full: Fastest time for 13 years says something. Excellent toilet facilitiesDate of review: May 3, 2005
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text: Ok, this is the first time I've ever been a little confused on the whole "switching calls" process. When you're on the line and someone else calls you and you pick up, how do you disconnect the other line? Do you have to hit "switch calls" to get back to the original call and then hang up? Seems like when I hung up this second call, both calls finally terminated.. No biggie, just curious. Thanks for any response.


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|Thoughts from the pre-Habs morning skate
|01.13.09 at 12:38 pm ET
There's always a bit more life in the catacombs of the Old Garden when the Montreal Canadiens are in town for a Northeast Division showdown, and that's again the case this morning on Causeway Street. The Habs are looking for revenge after a pair of beat downs in their last two epic games against each other, and the B's are beginning to really deal with some roster and depth issues as the injury/illness bug continues to creep up and crawl through the team.
–Center Patrice Bergeron again skated before practice this morning — along with Andrew Ference and Milan Lucic — and that makes three consecutive days that the 23-year-old has laced up the skates and got the heart rate up and the blood pumping without any evidence of headache or setback.
This is music to ears of the Bruins' fan base and, more importantly, to Bergeron himself.
"It's great to be back out on the ice. I'm very happy," said Bergeron, who pumped his heart rate up to 155-160 on the bike before he was cleared to get back on skates. "When I talked to you guys the other day
I didn't know it was going to be that quick. It's just skating for now and taking some shots and we'll see further on. It's just good to be back and a relief that I have a chance to skate again.
"I don't want to have any setbacks, so we're taking it slowly and surely," added Bergeron. "If I feel good, then I feel good.
–Bruins coach Claude Julien had Martin St. Pierre and Milan Lucic both alternating turns with Chuck Kobasew and Marc Savard on the B's top line during the morning skate and it really appears to be a mix-and-match game for Claude Julien with Phil Kessel removed from the lineup for the near-future. Lucic is a game-time decision with his undisclosed injury after sailing through the morning skate, but — either way — there won't be a much-anticipated bought between Looch and Big George Laraque with the Habs' enforcer out of the lineup tonight.
Facing the loss of 21-year-old star forward Phil Kessel to mononucleosis for a minimum of 2-4 weeks while also balancing significant injuries to Marco Sturm and Patrice Bergeron, Bruins coach Claude Julien said that the Bruins will do what they've always done best: survive.
"He's no different than any of the guys that we've lost [to injury] so far," said B's coach Claude Julien, whose team will face a highly motivated Montreal Canadiens squad tonight at the TD Banknorth Garden. "Every time you lose key players like that it's a big loss. But we've had a lot of practice with it, especially last year. We survived it, and we'll survive it again.
"We have to rely on the guys at our disposal to play solidly and to play well."
–The search for Manny's name plate ended at the Garden this morning as it stood there firmly in place along with his mask and all of the rest of his equipment in the Boston dressing room. Julien said that Fernandez is dealing with, as GM Peter Chiarelli confirmed yesterday, "general soreness" and something "very minor" that has the veteran puckstopper currently on day-to-day status.
No word on the whereabouts of his much-discussed Ristuccia Arena name plate, but there appears to be a burgeoning request by the Bruins Faithful to have it appear on EBay – and available to the tip-top bidder — after a wee little piece of laminated paper with the goalie's name on it sparked an avalanche of message board trade rumors on the great HFBoards yesterday afternoon.
"Hopefully we'll see him on the ice tomorrow. That really is the situation with Manny," said Julien, attempting to close the case of the 'tender name plate.
|Lucic and Wheeler invited to All-Star Weekend
|01.09.09 at 11:16 am ET
A bit of good news/bad news here for the Bruins as — according to media relations guru Matt Chmura — second-year winger Milan Lucic and rookie forward Blake Wheeler were the only fresh-faced Bruins players asked to take part in the NHL All-Star Game's newly adopted Rookies vs. Sophomores Game. The game will take place on Saturday's All-Star Skills Competition along with traditional fare like the NHL's hardest shot competition — a test of shooting strength that towering blueliner Zdeno Chara has turned into his own personal playground over the last few years.
In the Bad News Dept.: Somehow both second-year center David Krejci and rookie blueliner Matt Hunwick were bypassed for the game despite Krejci's place among the NHL's top 20 scorers this season and Hunwick's place among rookie defenseman. Hunwick is perhaps understandable in that he's not a household name, but Krejci has easily been among the best players in the entire NHL this season, and should have merited more consideration for the main event game at the Bell Centre on Sunday — never mind a showcase event for the NHL's Young Guns one day prior.
–B's General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced that Bruins winger Marco Sturm will undergo surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee and may also potentially be facing ACL surgery during the same procedure. If Sturm's ACL is torn — a notion that Chiarelli said appears to be be likely but won't be certain until the doctors look at the injury during surgery — then the German forward will be lost for the duration of the 2008-09 season.
–Boston Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli also announced today that the Bruins have assigned forwards Martin St. Pierre and Vladimir Sobotka to the Providence Bruins (American Hockey League). Chiarelli also informed the assembled media that the B's would call up two forwards from Providence to take their place on the roster — as Milan Lucic will be out of the lineup with the undisclosed injury again Saturday afternoon — for tomorrow's matinee against the Carolina Hurricanes.
St. Pierre has seen action in nine games for Boston this year and recorded 1-2=3 totals. In 30 games with the P-Bruins this season, he registered a 10-25=35 line.
The 25-year-old St. Pierre has appeared in 30 NHL games in his career – 21 with Chicago, 9 with Boston – and has tallied two goals and five assists. Signed as a free agent by the Blackhawks on November 12, 2005, St. Pierre was acquired by the Bruins on July 24, 2008 in exchange for Pascal Pelletier.
Sobotka has played in 15 games for Boston during the 2008-2009 season and recorded 1-1=2 totals. In 17 games with the P-Bruins this year, Sobotka tallied 10 goals and 11 assists.
He split the 2007-2008 season between Boston and Providence. With Boston, he saw action in 48 regular season games and contributed one goal and six assists and added two goals in six postseason games. With Providence last year, he had 10-10=20 totals in 18 regular season games and added four assists over six postseason games. Sobotka was originally drafted by the Bruins in the 4th round (106th overall) in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
The Bruins play the fifth game of a six-game homestand on Saturday, January 10 when they host the Carolina Hurricanes at 1:00 p.m. ET.
|A blueprint to beat the Bruins?
|01.06.09 at 8:50 pm ET
"I think for every team, every game, we talk about [scoring first] and getting an early lead and taking control of the game. I think that's an area that we will hopefully get better at tonight, starting tonight."
Those were the words of Bruins bench boss Claude Julien prior to last night's 1-0 snoozer of a loss at the hands of the trap-happy Minnesota Wild, and they didn't turn out to be prescient in any way, shape or form. Instead the Bruins managed to squeeze off only six shots during an uneventful first period, took three penalties in the second period that culminated in a power play strike for the Wild and then watched as Minnesota morphed into full trap mode in front of show-stopping goalie Niklas Backstrom.
"Personally I wouldn't pay to watch a game like that," said goalie Manny Fernandez, who suffered his first home loss of the season in the dulled down hockey game.
After watching the B's suffer from a distinct lack of bounces and battle through difficulties breaking the puck into the offensive zone once both the Wild and Sabres fastened the trap clamps on the hockey game, it almost appears as if a blueprint to beat the B's is beginning to form.
A dastardly plan that will frustrate and eventually defeat the high-powered Bruins attack, and leave their scoring machine in the shop for repairs. Granted, not every team has the talent or discipline or chutzpah to implement Operation Beat the Bruins but teams with enough scoring skills — or grit — to get a lead and a good enough goaltender could do it.
In other words squads like the Buffalo Sabres and the Wild. It's not something that's always going to be possible given Boston's ability to jump on the scoreboard fast and furiously, but teams may be finding a way to escape the hostile Boston Garden with a win tucked neatly under their arms. Play a checking game during five-on-five to frustrate and fluster the Bruins skaters and then try to do your offensive damage on the power play. Then hold on tight for dear hockey life.
The Bruins were certainly a frustrated and blocked up bunch after the game. Scorers like David Krejci and Blake Wheeler have been lighting the lamp with reckless abandon over the first 39 games of the season, but suddenly looked altogether human in Boston's first zero goal effort of the season. Even Wheeler looked a bit out of sorts in a game against his boyhood team as he dangled and attempted to dazzle with one-on-one moves but couldn't register a single shot in 18:15 of ice time.
"We were trying; we were battling, but they were just sitting back and basically chipping pucks out and shooting anything else. It was tough after that," said B's defenseman Zdeno Chara. "They don't need much and then when they do get a goal or two, they start to play really kind of defensive trap and it's really hard to get through. But, that's not an excuse for us. We created some chances like I said, but we couldn't score."
Krejci and Michael Ryder both threw up three shots on net with Backstrom robbing Krejci in the second period when the crafty center seemingly had a wide open net to pick from. The Wild netminder athletically leaped across the crease to fill up the open real estate and smother the shot. Ryder smacked the left pipe with ringing authority on a perfect curl-and-drag set up coming off the left boards, and added to the B's puck luck going south of the border just as the opposition's defensive intensity strengthened.
Julien predictably isn't buying any of the blueprint or formula for beating the Bruins talk, and is instead focused on what his team isn't doing at this point: play with focus, creativity, passion and the two-way defensive responsibility that became a hallmark of their puck success.
"Our game just isn't quite there. Then you get some good momentum at the end of the second period when you get the [shot off the] post by [Michael] Ryder, the unbelievable save on [David] Krejci, the goaltender [Niklas Backstrom] I don't know how he saw that one. He made some really good saves at key moments," said Julien. "All we needed was one shot to tie the hockey game, so it's not the end of the world.
"Again, talking about our team, we're just not in sync right now and it has nothing to do with the other team, more than it has to do with us. We see things from our team that definitely have slipped, and not as good as things are than when they were going well."
So what do Julien and his staff do with a team that's running low on confidence and a bit short of their ideal depth with Marco Sturm and Patrice Bergeron nowhere near returning from injury and Andrew Ference and Aaron Ward still working their way back into the mix?
"First of all you don't panic. Like I said, I don't think anybody thought we were going to be flying away, flying away for eighty two games without going through some bumps and bruises," said Julien. "It's a combination of a lot of things. [Andrew] Ference, [Aaron] Ward, [Patrice] Bergeron, [Marco] Sturm: I think those are four pretty important players missing out of our lineup.
"Eventually things catch up as well in different areas. We've got four real quality guys out of the lineup, you've got some top players that probably aren't at the top of their game, so it doesn't take much to slip a little bit. You just have to work your way through it. I think that's all we're going to be doing here: address the situation; we're going to show the guys where we've slipped or what needs to get better. We're going to work at and work our way out of it; that's all you can do."
Time to end the experiment
Claude Julien's tactic of plugging lovable Swede P.J. Axelsson on the first line with Marc Savard and Phil Kessel — along with placing him on the first PP unit — was excellent for the initial spark that it provided his club, but the time has come to insert a grittier player back up on the front line with the two skilled craftsman. It was the reason that Julien inserted Chuck Kobasew onto the first line in the waning minutes of Saturday afternoon's loss to the Buffalo Sabres and it's presumably why Shawn Thornton took at least one shift on the top line during the third period of last night's limp showing.
Meanwhile, Milan Lucic is on the third line continuing to be the B's leading body checker night in and night out, and he seems a bit miscast skating on the third line. Particularly so when he could be once again clearing much-needed space for Savard and Kessel on the top unit. It seems to only make too much sense when you begin watching a team search for an offensive spark over the last two games when they were awash in goal-scoring glory over the first 38 games.
There wasn't a doubt in my mind that it was a temporary move to place Axelsson in the B's offensive catbird seat, but there's a reason the longest-tenured Bruins has only two goals on the season — and only one of them has come with an actual goaltender between the pipes. It might be take to shake things up again, or it might just be time to put things back the way they used to be.
|Sounds of the game… Sabres 4, Bruins 2
|01.03.09 at 3:05 pm ET
For the first time since Dec. 10, the Bruins tasted defeat on Saturday, snapping a remarkable 10-game run of success. And for the first time since Oct. 23, they lost at home, a 14-game string of victory. How long ago was that? The Red Sox had just lost Game 7 of the ALCS to Tampa Bay four days earlier. Afterward, every Bruin to a man talked about facing adversity and how they plan to learn from this loss. Perhaps Milan Lucic said it best when he said that "good teams don't lose two in a row and we have to be hungry come our next game." That will be the focus when they continue their six-game homestand against Minnesota on Tuesday night. But for now, we look back on a game with the help of coach Claude Julien, who introduced a new term into the lexicon of the Boston sports fan. "We needed some JAM and this was one of those games where you need a little bit more JAM." JAM is apparently hockey-talk for juice, energy and desire.
Julien said Saturday wasn't Boston's best effort.
Julien said Buffalo earned the win.
Milan Lucic said the Bruins will be hungry to start a new streak.
Marc Savard on the winning streaks coming to an end.
|The B's will be rockin' on Sunday
|01.02.09 at 4:46 pm ET
WIth the Annual Boston Bruins wives carnival coming up this weekend, here's an interview with Bruins defenseman Aaron Ward and his wife Kelly on Fox 25 News this morning. Ward and the rest of his teammates will be manning different event stations at the carnival, and a quintet of B's including Blake Wheeler and Milan Luci will be playing in Rock Band 2 duels on the Wii against lucky fans.
Personally I'm more of a fan of Guitar Hero for the XBOX 360, but sounds like it should be a rockin' good time for all with B's — and the best part is that it's also for a great cause. My best advice: let the Looch win whenever he wants before he decides to lose his temper and do the rock star guitar-smashing thing on his axe at center stage.
Here's the release from the Bruins: On Sunday, Zdeno Chara, Phil Kessel, Milan Lucic, Marc Savard, Tim Thomas, Blake Wheeler and the entire Boston Bruins 2008-09 roster will be participating in the 19th Annual Boston Bruins' Wives Charity Carnival, presented by Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. The carnival is broken down in to three sessions from 11:00 – 12:00, 12:00 – 2:00 and 3:00 – 5:00. All sessions are open to the media and the players will be available for interviews throughout the day.
During each session fans will have the opportunity to get autographs and take photos with their favorite Bruins players, as well as play a variety of games which include P.J. Axelsson in ping-pong, David Krejci and Michael Ryder in knock hockey, Dennis Wideman in Nintendo Wii tennis, Andrew Ference in Xbox games. They can also join head coach Claude Julien for a tour of the team's locker room.
In addition, during the General Admission Session of the Carnival from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. is a special Rock Band 2 video game competition. Throughout the session, fans will play head-to-head with Blake Wheeler while special guest judges from Harmonix – the creators of Rock Band – evaluate the participants based on technical ability (accuracy) and performance (enthusiasm). The best players will be selected to move on to compete against the Bruins Band in the Rock Band 2 finale at 5:00 p.m. on stage at center ice.
The Bruins Band consists of Mark Stuart on vocals, Blake Wheeler on drums, Milan Lucic on lead guitar and Matt Lashoff on bass. The Bruins Band is expected to perform Pearl Jam's hit song "Alive."
The Bruins and Harmonix will be giving away a special prize to the top performer of the competition: a full Rock Band 2 retail bundle for the Nintendo Wii system autographed by the Bruins players.
This year's carnival proceeds will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the leading organization in the United States devoted to Cystic Fibrosis.
WHO: Entire Boston Bruins 2008 -09 Roster
Boston Bruins Coaching Staff
Boston Bruins Alumni Cam Neely, Ray Bourque, Terry O'Reilly,
Gerry Cheevers and Johnny Bucyk
Boston Bruins Wives
Boston Bruins Ice Girls
Blades the Boston Bruins Mascot
WHAT: 19th Annual Boston Bruins' Wives Charity Carnival
WHEN: Sunday, January 4, 2009
VIP Session: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Early Bird Session: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
General Admission Session: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: TD Banknorth Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston, MA, 02114
About the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Since 1955, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been the driving force behind the pursuit of a cure. The mission of the Foundation, a nonprofit donor-supported organization, is to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease. Thanks to the dedication and financial backing of our supporters- patients, families and friends, clinicians,
researchers, volunteers, individual donors, corporations and staff, we are making a difference.
About Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
Floating Hospital for Children is the full-service children's hospital of Tufts Medical Center and the principal teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine. Floating Hospital offers a comprehensive range of services from prevention and primary care to the most sophisticated treatment of rare and unusual conditions. Our focus and mission every day is to improve the lives of children and their families. We treat every child as if they are our own.
About the Boston Bruins Foundation
The Boston Bruins Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation whose mission is to assist charitable organizations that demonstrate a strong commitment to enhancing the quality of life for children throughout New England. Since its inception in July 2003 by the Jacobs Family, it has raised more than $2 million dollars through a series of fundraising events. The Foundation, which provides grants to organizations that meet the standards of its mission, concentrates on athletics, academics, health, and community outreach programs that assist in helping enrich the lives of children throughout New England.
|Sounds of the game… Bruins 4, Penguins 2
|at 8:25 am ET
In team sports, when you hear something hasn't been done since 1929, one of two things has happened. Either a team is on a historically bad run and is about to get its coach fired. Or a team is blowing away its competition. Well of course, this is Boston, home of the 19-game winning streak in basketball and now the Boston Bruins are trying to equal their Garden co-tenants. And so far, they're doing a pretty good job of it. Thursday night, the Bruins opened the New Year by turning away Sidney Crosby and the defending Eastern Conference champion Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-2, on Causeway Street.
Some nuggets about these men of Black and Gold… The Bruins extended their home win streak to 14 games, their longest since a 16-game run from Jan. 10-Mar. 25, 1976. It's the longest in the NHL this season and the fifth-longest behind streaks of 20, 19, 16 and 15 games. '¦ The Bruins 10-game winning streak is the longest since a 10-game streak in the 1972-73 season. '¦ The Bruins drew a crowd of 17,565, their eighth sellout of the season, fourth straight and sixth in seven home games. Boston sports fans always could spot a winner. Let's hear from them.
Coach Claude Julien said the team is doing a good job with its game-to-game focus.
Julien explains putting Milan Lucic on the third line, producing two goals in his last two games.
Julien said Thursday was just another good, solid win.
Marc Savard said the team isn't looking at chasing records or its own NHL-best 62 points.
Milan Lucic said winning 10 straight has been no accident.
Lucic said the Bruins are not taking the winning for granted.
Captain Zdeno Chara said the winning makes playing fun right now.
|Bruins back to basics for 10th straight win
|01.01.09 at 9:55 pm ET
If the Boston Bruins aren't too careful they're going to start entering exalted hockey territory here in the city of Boston. With their tenth win in row last night, by a 4-2 score over the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Boston Bruins have matched the 1971 Bobby Orr-led, Stanley Cup Champion-era B's in terms of a regular season win streak. For nearly everyone involved with the team, it's the most impressive regular season that they've enjoyed in the NHL and something they're not at all taking for granted.
"I'd have to go all the way back to my last year of junior hockey, I think," said B's defenseman Dennis Wideman, when asked the last time he's been on a team that won 10 games in a row. "I think I've been on some [NHL] teams that have lost 10 in a row, and this definitely feels a lot better."
With the home-and-home sweep of the still-dangerous Pens, the Bruins have seized sole ownership of the point lead in the NHL while continuing to put distance between themselves and the wild packs of Rangers, Capitals and Canadiens roaming in the Eastern Conference.
Almost as amazing is the fact that the current 10-game stretch has A) taken place while the B's were admittedly not playing as well as they have through much of the season B) transpired largely during a long road swing sandwiched around the holiday break and C) overshadowed a simultaneous 14-game home winning streak before burgeoning crowds at the Garden.
Dressing room leader Aaron Ward said that the B's have realized the error of their ways during the tough stretches of the streaks, and corrected things to again get to the type of Bruins hockey that put them in first place to begin with.
"[We] preach in this locker room that the whole season is a marathon. You can play one month and you understand if you are going to lead long enough that there will be some highs and some lows; capitalize on your highs," said Ward. "We started to fall off, the minute we step into this locker room we knew in the last five or six games that the effort wasn't there. We were going into games and you start to get complacent and you figure that well your skill will just take care or it or it will just work itself out.
"The National Hockey League doesn't work itself out. You got to match your opponents' level of effort with level of emotions and we lacked both. Sometimes both, sometimes one, you just can't have your nights off we had creeping into our game.
The B's crowds traditionally become livelier and more plentiful after Jan. 1, and the Patriots' rare regular season exit insures that the Garden will be rockin' straight through the rest of the season. The love affair between the sellout crowds and the gritty, hard-hitting hockey team should only continue as Black and Gold skaters like vladimir Sobotka put third period exclamation points like this one last night.
With that mid-ice big boom in mind, here' s a few things that stuck out from last night's impressive victory over a motivated Penguins team:
Big Z in shutdown mode
One of the biggest observations/factors during the back-to-back wins over the Penguins was the outstanding defensive shutdown work executed by Zdeno Chara and Aaron Ward on Pittsburgh center Evgeni Malkin's line over the course of two games. In the home-and-home matchup, the jumbo-sized and ridiculously-skilled Malkin was held to a -2 and managed only a single assist in last night's loss after coach Claude Julien sicked a frothy Chara on the Penguins' scorer as much as possible.
"I think [Chara] actually loves it," said Julien. "He's taken a lot of pride in doing it and I think he is being recognized, more and more, for being able to do those things. Not every team, and not too many teams, have those kind of defensemen and can match them against top players and be capable of shutting them down night after night."
Chara has always prided himself on being the tall, tough, intimidating defensive stopper at the blue line and — after a slow first month — seems to have again reached that elite level of defenseman play that few can match around the NHL.
As impressive as Big Z was, however, perhaps Ward was even more so in his first two games back from an ankle injury that hampered him throughout December. Ward managed to keep himself in some semblance of shape while healing up and came up big last night with his specialty — a cringe-inducing, surely painful blocked shot in the waning minutes of the third period on Pittsburgh's final power play — to help secure the big victory for the Bruins.
It was exactly the kind of thing that the B's have missed while he was out, despite the best efforts of guys like Dennis Wideman and Matt Hunwick to step up.
"You have to give credit to Aaron Ward, who nobody talks about, he did a good job with Z back there and near the end there he made a big block, blocked a big shot," said Julien. "Those kind of things can kind of go unnoticed."
Extra bonus points to the aforementioned pairing of Hunwick and Wideman, who likewise managed to clamp down the defensive vice grips on Sidney Crosby's line as well. Sid the Kid managed a single measly assist in Tuesday night's loss at the Igloo, and was a -3 in the two-game sweep. There were many moments during last night's win when the purported best hockey player in the world was invisible. Credit the Bruins' defense for pulling off the nearly impossible NHL magic trick: making the two-man gang of both Crosby and Malkin disappear into the thin wintry air.
Back in the Scoresheet Saddle
It might be time for Bruins Nation to get used to the current line pairings that have P.J. Axelsson spending time on the first power play unit because Julien has liked what he's seen over the last two games. Axelsson has helped spark the first line and scored his first non-empty net goal of the season — along with an assist –in last night's win and totaled a pair of helpers in Tuesday night's win in Pittsburgh.
"I was looking for a response from lines," said Julien. "I know people keep asking about Lucic, well, yeah Lucic and Savard and Kessel, I thought weren't playing as well as they could and neither was the Yelle, Axelsson and Kobasew line. And I was kind of talking about all six of those guys, three of them on units."
"I didn't think they were generating much, so with Looch, with that hard-working line, I think it certainly helped him find his identity again, as far as being a grinder and being a grinder doesn't stop you from scoring as you could see tonight," added Julien. "[Lucic and Axelsson] have brought something different to both those lines that, not just made them successful [as individuals], but also made those lines better, as well."
Julien believes that Axelsson has added a certain Je Ne Cest Q'uoi to the games of both Marc Savard (2 goals, 3 assists and a +2 in two games) and Phil Kessel (1 goal and 13 shots on net in two games) while Milan Lucic has blended right in with the hard-working, lunch pail games of third liners Chuck Kobasew and Stephane Yelle. Looch has also potted a pair of goals since the much-publicized move down to the third line. Julien said that the swap wasn't designed to simply get Lucic and Axelsson going as much as it was supposed to breath life in both lines.
Mission accomplished.
"I think obviously things weren't going my way," said Lucic. "I just want to get back to doing simple things and it paid off today with the goal. Like I said we just have to keep getting better.
"I think everyone is comfortable playing with anyone. We are just going out there and focusing on what we have to do, sticking to the game plan," added Lucic. "It is not by accident that we have won ten straight. The little things that we do we got away from a little bit. I think this home and home against the Penguins was good for us to get back to working hard and doing the simple things."
So don't expect any big line shake-ups in the near future with things again appearing to gel in Coach Julien's neighborhood. Count me among the people that scratched their heads when Axelsson was moved to the top scoring line and the number one power play unit, but the B's bench boss has once again proven he knows a lot more about the frozen puck game than yours truly.
The Beat Goes On
With all of the success that the Bruins have enjoyed thus far this season, there has been plenty of streaking that hasn't involved Frank the Tank in the least. While the biggest slice of the attention pie is given to the current team winning streak or the 14-straight wins on the Garden's frozen sheet, magic man center David Krejci is also riding a 10-game point streak after potting a goal in the first period of last night's win.
Perhaps Krejci is a big Christmas fan because he's gone supersonic with the puck over the last month, notching 7 goals and 15 assists in 14 games during the merry, merry month. While Julien has reconfigured each of the other two lines, the veteran coach has smartly left the trio of Krejci, Blake Wheeler and Michael Ryder together as they continue to produce offense and responsible defense on a nightly basis.
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