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SUNRISE, Fla. — The Bruins put a stranglehold on their first-round series with the Florida Panthers on Sunday, taking a 6-2 decision at Florida Live Arena and pushing their series lead to 3-1.

SUNRISE, Fla. — Brad Marchand arrived in the collective consciousness of the North American hockey-watching public a dozen years ago. In the Stanley Cup playoffs, he was an impactful player, notching 11-8-19 totals in 25 games. But it was in the highly contentious Final against the Vancouver Canucks that he…

BOSTON — The Bruins captured the first of what they hope will be 16 wins on the way to the Stanley Cup over the next two months on Monday at the Garden.

BOSTON — The Bruins won their 64th game of the season in their regular season Garden finale on Tuesday, but they did not escape their 5-2 victory over the Washington Capitals without a major concern.

If anyone thought the Bruins were going to mail it in for the final seven games since clinching the Presidents’ Trophy, they are sadly mistaken.

The Bruins simply cannot lose these days.

BOSTON — The Bruins haven’t exactly been playing like Stanley Cup favorites the last couple of games, but their goalies have been there to make sure they didn’t pay the consequences for it.

BOSTON — The Bruins held Connor McDavid in check all night, but the Edmonton Oilers found a way to climb out of a hole and beat the mighty Bruins without a major contribution from the best player in the world.

BOSTON — Maybe the star-studded New York Rangers will get it together between now and the end of the regular season. And, to be fair, they were undermanned on Saturday.

BOSTON — If most teams were put in the Bruins’ situation on Thursday at TD Garden, they would have checked in for a scheduled loss and moved on. But these Bruins are not most teams.

The new-look Bruins made an imperfect debut, but they were fortunate enough to have to Linus Ullmark — and not just to stop the puck.