Well, they still got further than every other team in the NHL, save one.
Bruins
Fred Somers has a ringside seat for the Pru tonight as the Bruins try to stay alive.
Lindsay Tower introduces us to Lou, one of the doormen at the Lenox Hotel on Boylston Street.
Mark Miller notices that John Singleton Copley is ready for tonight's game.
Nathan, 5, of Oxford, woke up with some serious Bruins head this morning. Sarah snapped his photo yesterday.
On the one hand, the Globe of the Midwest runs a sweet story about how Chicagoans and Bostonians are really more family members than people who have an innate hatred for each other - we're both have guys in tuxedos starting our hockey games, we both have waterfronts, we both have lots of rich people who give money to charity (really). The story features quotes from Bostonians living in Chicago and a professor who teaches classes at both BU and the University of Chicago.
Own is posting phone numbers of Bostonians who have called bars in Pittsburgh asking for him.
Transit Police report arresting a man from a Pittsburgh suburb at the Sullivan Square Orange Line stop last night before he could get the tar beaten out of him strangle a local following the end of the Penguins' O-4 series.
According to police, officers arrived at a disturbance around 11:30 p.m. at the station to find Ryan Baessler, 29, of Carnegie, PA, with his hands around another man's throat and screaming insults at him:
Don't be knuckleheads, Ed Davis tells fans getting ready to throng the Garden tonight.
I ask that you celebrate a win or loss with the pride and class that our team and our city deserves.
Davis has a special word for any college students left in town: Act up, and your school will have a word with you.
Noah watched this houseboat glide past Long Wharf yesterday evening. He notes that blue thing by the flags is a slide.
Meanwhile, injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue will wave the flag at tonight's Bruins game.
If you're at work, put your ear buds in first before watching this call from Presidents Rock Club in Quincy.
Also: JetBlue pilot asks if crying baby is Sidney Crosby during flight to Boston.
CBS Sports reports.
If only there were a Pittsburgh beer anybody in Boston drinks that we could counter-boycott. Prairie Rose Clayton suggests boycotting Iron City, but Matt O'Connor is not sure Iron City really qualifies as beer.
Faneuil Hall Marketplace notes somebody made sure Red Auerbach was ready for today's opening Bruins/Rangers playoff game.
Seems a group of Leafs fans got jumped after Saturday's game at the Garden - and one of them was punched into unconsciousness.
"I had a cat scan done, I got three staples in the back of my head, swollen cheek, cut the inside my mouth, and concussed. I don't remember the end of the game because of it."
Via Stephanie.
Boston Police report the Big Apple Circus performance for tonight has also been postponed.