Jaromir Jagr is in the longest postseason scoring drought of his career. The Bruins forward hasn’t scored in the last 17 postseason games, which dates all the way back to his time with the Flyers.

Despite not scoring in eight playoff games so far with the Bruins, Jagr is still finding a way to impact the score sheet. Jagr has had four assists this postseason, and head coach Claude Julien said Jager has been a good addition to the team.

To see what else Julien had to say, check out the video above or check it out on NESN’s YouTube channel

The Bruins have been doing fine without Dennis Seidenberg and Andrew Ference, but that’s not to say Boston’s luck will continue.

Dougie Hamilton, Matt Bartkowski and Torey Krug‘s play has been “astonishing,” according to DJ Bean of WEEI.com, but getting Seidenberg and Ference back would be a boost for the Bruins if they hope to best the Rangers. At this point, Bean thinks that Bartkowski should be playing over Wade Redden even if the vet is able to come back.

Watch the video above to hear Bean and NESN’s Naoko Funayama preview Game 2 of the Bruins-Rangers series or check it out on NESN’s YouTube channel.

Now, B’s coach Claude Julien has some decisions to make. There is a chance that all three of the usual defensemen may be healthy enough to suit up for Game 2 on Sunday, which may send Dougie Hamilton, Matt Bartkowski and Torey Krug back to the land of the healthy scratches.

But even if the team is back to full strength, do the young guns deserve another chance to suit up? All three played well on Thursday, with Krug scoring his first NHL goal, Hamilton added an assist and Bartkowski clocked a career-high 26:42 of ice time.

Assuming everyone is healthy, which of the rookies has made the best case to start over a veteran in Game 2? Voice your opinion in the poll below.

Torey Krug, Dougie Hamilton and Matt Bartkowski stepped into the lineup against the Rangers in the Eastern Conference semifinals due to injuries to Wade Redden, Andrew Ference and Dennis Seidenberg. The three not only held their own, but were a big part of the B’s overtime victory.

Krug buried the B’s tying goal in the third period. Hamilton assisted on Krug’s goal and had five shots. Bartkowski led the three with over 26 minutes of ice time. For their efforts, however, one, two or all three may be sitting out Sunday’s Game 2, according to CBS Boston, as the vets may be good to go.

“A little early to say,” head coach Claude Julien said Friday morning at TD Garden. “Again, it is two days, and two days in the playoffs makes a big difference as far as getting guys back. There’s a possibility, that much I can say. Whether they will or not is too early to say right now.

“There’s no doubt that gave us a real good transition game, [Thursday night],” Julien said of the rookies. “Whether some of those guys come back or not, we’ve got to keep doing the same thing.”

According to the uploader of the below YouTube video, he’s just a Maple Leafs fan who owns a GoPro camera and wanted to capture some memorable playoff moments. However, what he ended up getting was visual evidence of a memory that will probably stick in his sports-fan brain for the rest of his life.

In any case, this Leafs fan mounted his GoPro to the top of his TV, planning to record him and his friends while they watched the deciding Game 7 between Toronto and Boston in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Of course, we all know how the game ended, and this fan apparently had enough of a sense of humor to clip together a range of reactions and post it online. There’s the elation when Phil Kessel scores to put the Leafs up 3-1, and the utter heartbreak caused by Patrice Bergeron.

Check out some Maple Leafs fans going through the entire gamut of emotions in the video below.

The three rookie defensemen stepped up in Game 1 against the Rangers at TD Garden with veterans Wade Redden, Andrew Ference and Dennis Seidenberg out with injury. While many B’s fans assumed that dressing a trio of rooks would be a cause for concern, the three proved to be anything but, playing stout defense and stepping up on offense.

Which rookie defenseman stepped up and impressed you the most in Game 1? Vote below.

Bergie has come a long way since his rookie year, earning many individual awards, hoisting a Stanley Cup and being named the team’s alternate captain.

Back when he first joined the B’s, Bergeron and then-teammate goalie Andrew Raycroft starred in a memorable NESN promo, which can be seen below. The commercial was called “Zamboni on the Lenny,” and it even scored NESN an Emmy Award.

John Tortorella

The Rangers coach gave a short, accurate answer when asked after Thursday night’s game what went wrong for New York in its 3-2 overtime loss to the Bruins.

“We got spanked in overtime,” Tortorella told reporters.

The teams were neck-and-neck late in the game, with the Rangers erasing the Bruins’ 1-0 edge in the second period and going up 2-1 before Torey Krug evened the score in the third. In overtime, however, Boston had a noticeable edge, drumming up more of the fast-paced, pressing offense that had marked pockets of the game for both sides earlier in the contest.

“We never regrouped,” Tortorella said.

Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who had an otherwise strong game in net, was eventually overcome in overtime by a Brad Marchand goal. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 16-5 in overtime after notching just two more shots than the visitors in regulation.

“Sooner or later when you face a lot of chances like that, you’re going to make a mistake,” Lundqvist said. “It’s not a mistake I’m going to sleep less over. I thought we played a solid game, but we just came up short here, in overtime, again.”

Lundqvist had 45 saves on the night, but his record in overtime playoff games fell to 3-11.

Spanked, indeed.

It was nothing, assured Bruins coach Claude Julien, and sure enough, Marchand was out there for Game 1 against the New York Rangers just a few hours later.

The next time Marchand left the Garden ice, however, his departure was met with exultation.

Marchand played the role of hero in Game 1 of the Bruins’ second-round series with the New York Rangers. The pesky forward scored the game-winning goal 15:40 into overtime, allowing the Bruins to skate off winners in the series opener.

“There was nothing there,” Julien said of the apparent injury. “It was very minor. It might have looked major to you guys, but that’s why I said he’d be fine tonight. Maybe that’s what he needed to do, to get off the ice a little early to score that winning goal. Whatever works is good for us.”

Marchand could likely get behind that plan.

“I’m serious. I wanted to get off the ice,” Marchand joked in the dressing room after the game. “Claude knows I hate morning skates. He used to yell at me when we won the [Stanley] Cup there because I wouldn’t even take a stride. I just wanted to get off early.”

The game-winner was certainly a big goal for Marchand, who was coming off a first-round series that was short on production and big on frustration for both Marchand and his linemates. Julien eventually decided that it was time to change things up. He did so by pairing Marchand and Patrice Bergeron with Jaromir Jagr in Game 7 of the Toronto series. It showed signs of working in that game, and the success carried over into Game 1 against New York, Marchand’s best game of the playoffs so far.

The fresh look, both with a new linemate and starting a new series against a new team, seemed to jump-start Marchand. He was much more active, skating hard and making a difference in all three zones.

“Yeah, it’s a whole new series, and we’re happy to play the Rangers,” Marchand said after breaking through with his first goal of the playoffs, and his first goal overall since April 21. “They’re a very good team and a very good battle. It’s nice to finally get one there and get the monkey off the back, and hopefully they keep coming.”

The Boston forward, who led the Bruins in goals this season, also got a little bit of encouragement from a former teammate. Mark Recchi, who won a Stanley Cup with Marchand in 2011, texted his former teammate to offer a little advice.

“He just texted me and told me to play my game and not to worry about anything else,” Marchand said. “The goals and stuff will come. It’s nice to hear from him. He’s obviously a guy that I went through a lot when I played with him, and it was good to hear from him again.”

Marchand certainly took the advice to heart, and he showed it with his play in Game 1.

Marchand played 22:17, scoring the game-winner, adding an assist and putting three shots on net while even blocking three in the defensive end. It was a much more complete effort for Marchand, something that Julien has been searching high and low for.

“I thought Brad, personally, that was one of his better games so far in the playoffs,” Julien said. “He skated well, made some great plays, took pucks to the net, and that’s the Brad Marchand we know. It was nice to see him really bring his A-game to the table tonight.”

Most great goals are triggered by equally great, but often overlooked defensive plays.

That was certainly the case Thursday night, when a textbook poke check by Zdeno Chara near the Bruins’ blue line in overtime led directly to Brad Marchand‘s game-winning goal. Marchand beating Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist five-hole will be what shows up in the highlight package, but his goal never happens without Chara’s heads-up play in his own zone.

Check out Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley‘s breakdown of the entire sequence in the video above.

That’s because the Bruins captain had just played an astounding 38 minutes and two seconds of hockey in Boston’s 3-2 overtime win over the New York Rangers in Game 1 of their second-round series. But there Chara was, taking what seemed like just a leisurely stroll into the press conference room to field questions from the waiting media, like it was just another day.

He did so wearing the custom-made Army Rangers jacket that the club hands out among themselves to the player of the game following each win. Chara certainly earned it in Game 1. The 36-year-old buoyed a makeshift defensive corps for the Bruins that had a trio of young defensemen, including two players who were in Providence last week and a rookie who can barely vote, let alone drink.

Chara’s Herculean effort is even more impressive when you consider he was doing so just 72 hours after logging 35:46 of ice time in a Game 7 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“I’m just trying to help the team as much as I can,” Chara flatly stated. “Whatever [head coach Claude Julien] feels comfortable putting me out there, I’m fine with that.”

Chara obviously did that and more in Game 1, but most importantly, he was a stabilizing influence on the Bruins’ back end. Those minutes are obviously huge, but they’re even bigger when Chara is logging them for a defensive corps featuring the likes of Torey Krug, Dougie Hamilton and Matt Bartkowski instead of battled-tested veterans like Dennis Seidenberg, Andrew Ference and Wade Redden.

It’s no surprise that on a night that Chara played so well and so much that the aforementioned trio of rookies also stepped their game up a bit.

“Any time you have young players put in a role like this, it’s not easy,” Chara said. “They handled it pretty good. They tried to play a simple game and it’s working. I’m sure it’s going to be more challenging, but we just gotta help them out as much as we can.”

Helping those rookies along isn’t necessarily something Chara has to do, but then again, it does kind of come with the territory as the team’s captain and a perennial Norris Trophy contender.

“You try to talk to them on the ice as much as you can,” Chara said of trying to help the youngsters along. “The coaches do their part also. Also, you’ve gotta let them play. The way they naturally like to play, so that’s the biggest thing. Like I said, it’s something that’s never easy for any player to come in and be put in a spot like this. We’ve gotta make sure as a unit of five that we all play a certain way to make it easier on certain situations.”

No doubt that impact is felt by Chara’s young apprentices.

“It’s huge,” Bartkowski said of Chara’s impact. “If we didn’t have a guy who could log all those minutes — I’m dead tired and I can’t imagine what he feels like. That’s huge, and he performs every shift. It’s not like he’s just out there taking up space. It’s huge for the team.”

Of course, Chara’s Game 1 wasn’t just logging big minutes, shutting down New York’s top forwards and doing some on-ice mentoring. Chara logged big, heavy minutes, but they were good minutes. He scored the team’s first goal, added an assist, put a game-high nine shots on goal, had six hits and was a plus-2. He also made a crucial poke check that led to Brad Marchand‘s game-winner in overtime.

It’s another ho-hum effort for one of the game’s best defenseman, another effort that won’t ever be overlooked by anyone in the Bruins’ dressing room or coaching staff.

“Zdeno does those things over and over and that’s why I said to people that even though he hasn’t been nominated for a Norris [lately], he’s our Norris Trophy winner every year by the amount he’s played and the way he’s played,” Julien said. “The players he plays against, and he continues to do that. We appreciate that kind of play from him a lot. This is the kind of thing you get from Zdeno and [Thursday] wasn’t any different. “

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The Bruins’ blue line looked much greener than usual Thursday night.

After being struck by injury late in last week’s first-round series, Boston started three rookie defensemen — Dougie Hamilton, Matt Bartkowski and Torey Krug — for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Rangers.

It was the first time since 1985 that the B’s played three first-year blueliners in a playoff game, but the young guns held their own. Hamilton and Krug both found their way onto the scoresheet, with Hamilton logging an assist and Krug beating Henrik Lundqvist for his first NHL goal as the Bruins claimed a 3-2 overtime win.

Captain Zdeno Chara spoke about the performance of his fellow defensemen after the game. Check out what he had to say in the video above.

Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good. The Bruins kept getting unlucky against the Rangers in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinals, so in the end, they decided to just be better.

The B’s dominated the overtime period before eventually emerging with a 3-2 win over New York, thanks to Brad Marchand‘s game-winner. However, without the play of a couple of rookies, he likely wouldn’t have gotten the chance.

Without Andrew Ference, Wade Redden or Dennis Seidenberg in the lineup, youngsters Torey Krug and Dougie Hamilton were pulled into the line of fire — and they proved themselves worthy. The two teamed up to give the Boston power play a boost and also provided strong support at the blue line all night. So, NESN Nation’s Dan Duquette is awarding them our “The Kids Are All Right” player of the game award.

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The Bruins came through with another white-knuckle victory on Thursday, getting an overtime goal by Brad Marchand to propel them to a 3-2 win in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Marchand’s tip-in, assisted by Patrice Bergeron, capped off an effort in which the switch was absolutely flipped into the “on” position.

Zdeno Chara recorded the second assist on Marchand’s game-winner and also scored the first goal of the game. That goal was assisted by David Krejci and Nathan Horton, who have been strong in the playoffs with nine assists and four assists, respectively. Defenseman Torey Krug, playing in his first career NHL playoff game, came through with a power-play goal.

Check out the best photos from Game 1 >>

With 4:20 remaining in the first overtime, Brad Marchand took a feed from Patrice Bergeron and slid it through Henrik Lundqvist‘s legs, giving the B’s a 3-2 win and a 1-0 lead in the teams’ Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Check out Marchand’s game-winner in the video below.

Final, Bruins 3-2: 

The forward went straight to the net on a rush, Patrice Bergeron hit him with a beautiful pass and the B’s win.

Overtime, 10:51, 2-2: Johnny Boychuk has twice had the chance to win this game, and both times he hit the post.

Boychuk almost ended it in overtime, but the puck caught the post to Henrik Lundqvist’s right and we play on.

The Bruins are outshooting New York in overtime 11-2 so far.

Overtime, 5:00, 2-2: The Bruins got a ton of chances, but they didn’t score on the power play. That was two minutes of domination.

Overtime, 2:20, 2-2: Here’s something rare. An overtime penalty.

The B’s go on the power play after Derek Dorsett is called for interference.

Overtime, 0:01, 0:00: For the second time this week, overtime has begun.

End third period, 2-2: Whoa.

The Bruins really brought it in the final moments of the third period, and they did everything but score on the power play. The B’s got a couple of really good chances, but one of those was slowed by a fearless Dan Girardi just throwing himself around the ice blocking shots.

Johnny Boychuk had a chance of his own at the buzzer, but the defenseman hit the post with an absolute blast from the right point.

Third period, 17:51, 2-2: With 25 seconds left in the power play, the man-advantage ends for New York, and not with a goal.

John Moore was just called for interference, and that ends the power play, and it will give the B’s 1:35 of a power play once 4-on-4 play ends.

Third period, 16:16, 2-2: The Bruins will have to kill off yet another penalty.

This time it’s because Patrice Bergeron was just called for hooking.

Third period, 14:32, 2-2: Tuukka Rask gave up that goal early in the period, but he’s been rock solid since. He just made a nice blocker save on Steve Eminger as the New York defenseman jumped on a puck in the Boston zone and put it on net.

Matt Bartkowski continues to have a nice night. After breaking a stick in the neutral zone, Bartkowski just did the only thing he could do to slow the rush — deck Rick Nash with a body check in open ice. Good stuff so far from the Boston rookie.

Third period, 8:38, 2-2: The Bruins are turning it on here in the third period, and the pace of play is certainly picking up.

David Krejci just had a brilliant chance as he stickhandled through the slot and then put a shot toward the net that beat Henrik Lundqvist, but the puck hit the crossbar. The Bruins are certainly buzzing right now, and they’re getting chances.

Third period, 2:55, 2-2: Scoring. So much scoring.

Torey Krug makes the Rangers pay for the penalty, as he just scored his first career playoff goal. He beat Henrik Lundqivst with a shot from just above the left circle.

Third period, 1:09, Rangers 2-1: The Bruins will get a chance to tie it up on the power play.

Steve Eminger was called for holding.

Third period, 0:14, Rangers 2-1: That didn’t take long.

Derek Stepan just scored to give the Rangers a 2-1 lead. We talked about potential momentum, and apparently it did carry over, with the second Rangers goal in 15.3 seconds of game time.

Second period reaction: That’s not the way the Bruins wanted to end the period, not one bit. That could prove to be an absolutely crippling goal, especially if the Rangers are able to sustain momentum through the intermission and into the third period.

Both teams were able to get on the board there in the second period, and both teams did it with kind of fluky goals. Again, expect that to continue to throughout the entire series. These teams are just too good on the blue line to fall apart defensively. On that now, however, it was bizarre to see Henrik Lundqvist give up a relatively soft goal. He should have had Zdeno Chara’s shot from the point, but he just couldn’t control it, and the puck squeezed through.

At the other end, it was defensive breakdowns, poor puck management and an inability to clear the zone that led to Ryan McDonagh’s goal. Tyler Seguin, who hasn’t been anything spectacular through two periods, coughed it up, and it cost the B’s dearly.

Second period, 19:58, 1-1: The Bruins couldn’t clear their own zone in the final seconds of the period, and it cost them.

Ryan McDonagh beat Tuukka Rask from the left point up over the goalie’s left shoulder with just 1.3 seconds to play in the period.

We’ll go to the intermission tied 1-1.

Second period, 16:13, Bruins 1-0: The Bruins were able to kill off the penalty with relative ease.

Second period, 13:52, Bruins 1-0: Shortly after the goal, the Bruins have to go back on the penalty kill.

Adam McQuaid was just called for interference, and the PK is back out on the ice.

Second period, 12:23, Bruins 1-0: Henrik Lundqvist may be one of the best in the game, but even he makes mistakes. That’s the case here, and the Bruins lead 1-0 because of it.

Lundqvist couldn’t quite close the pads on a Zdeno Chara slap shot form the point, and the puck eventually trickles through. Nathan Horton definitely helped it along.

Second period, 11:56, 0-0: The Bruins did a good job of coming out of that TV timeout and reversing the momentum some.

They just got a couple of good shifts, and that led to arguably the club’s best chance of the second period. Zdeno Chara put a shot toward the net from the point that looked to be tipped in the high slot by Nathan Horton. Either way, Henrik Lundqvist made the save.

The Bruins also just got another solid shift out of the Patrice Bergeron line, but blocked shots slowed that down.

Second period, 9:39, 0-0: The Bruins killed off the penalty, and we finally get a TV timeout a few minutes later after whistle-less play.

The Rangers are starting to pressure the B’s a little bit both with the power play and the few minutes that followed. They’re getting in the forecheck, and they’re also making it pretty difficult for the Bruins to get the puck through the neutral zone.

Second period, 4:38, 0-0: Zdeno Chara was just called for hooking, which means the Rangers will get a power play of their own now.

Second period, 4:26, 0-0: As far as Bruins power plays go, that was one of the better ones that didn’t end with a goal.

The B’s got a couple of good chances including shots from the right wing from both Tyler Seguin and David Krejci, but one hit the side of the net and the other was stopped.

Second period, 2:22, 0-0: The Bruins get the first power play of the night, but it might have come out at a price.

Tyler Pyatt is going off for boarding after planting Johnny Boychuk in the corner. Boychuk was definitely shaken up, but it looks like he’ll stay on the bench for now.

The Bruins have a chance to grab the lead on the power play now.

Second period, 0:01, 0-0: The second period is underway, and Michael Del Zotto is back for the Rangers. He took a puck up near the head after blocking a Patrice Bergeron shot in the first and he left the ice. He’s good to go now apparently.

First period reaction: Did you miss the first period? If so, you didn’t miss much at all.

The Bruins and Rangers are scoreless through one, which really isn’t that much of a surprise given the way these two teams play. It’s really all about defense, which may make these head coaches happy, but it doesn’t make for the most entertaining hockey.

With it being scoreless, it must mean that the Bruins’ young D-men are doing at least a decent job, right? Yeah, pretty much. They’ve all been good enough, and I’ve been especially impressed with Matt Bartkowski. He’s already seen 8:17 of ice time, which is second only to Zdeno Chara on either team through 20 minutes. Torey Krug has been decent, and he showed a willingness to get a little nasty when he dumped the much bigger Brian Boyle into the Boston cage after a whistle.

The Rangers have been just as good, if not better defensively. Henrik Lundqvist is still one of the best goalies on the planet, and he extended his shutout streak to 140:00 with a scoreless first. The Rangers helped that along by blocking 10 shots in the first, but the Bruins do lead in shots 11-8 through one.

End first period, 0-0: The first period just came to an end with a flurry of activity at the New York net. It was the Patrice Bergeron line that put some pucks near the net, but they just couldn’t break through  to really get anything on net. Get used to that in this series.

First period, 13:09, 0-0: The Bruins should maybe be trailing 1-0 right now, but Tuukka Rask just got some help from the crossbar.

Michael Del Zotto beat the Bruins goalie with a wrist shot from the left point that beat Rask gloveside, but the puck found iron instead of the back of the net.

The Rangers got another chance shortly thereafter when Zdeno Chara coughed up the puck in his own zone. He and Dougie Hamilton have struggled to get the puck out of their own end so far, and it almost cost them there.

The Bruins have just five shots on goal through the first 13 minutes or so.

First period, 6:29, 0-0: Goals are expected to be at a premium in this series, and so far, that’s been the case, albeit just a few minutes in.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Bruins’ defensemen — especially the younger guys — and they’ve done a good job so far. Matt Bartkowski looks like he’s getting confidence with every shift in these playoffs.

Meanwhile, the Boston fourth line is doing its job in the early going, getting in there with good, hard forechecks, and they’ve created the best chance for either team so far.

First period, 0:01, 0-0: The game is on.

7:13 p.m.: The Bruins are going to go with the same lines as they did in Game 7, per warmups, as are the Rangers.

Here are the Bruins’ defensive pairings.

Zdeno Chara — Dougie Hamilton
Matt Bartkowski — Johnny Boychuk
Adam McQuaid — Torey Krug

7 p.m.: The Bruins just took the ice for pregame warmups. Unsurprisingly, they’re without Andrew Ference, Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden.

Brad Marchand is out there as well.

6:45 p.m.: Welcome to TD Garden where it is really cold up here on Level 9, which is press level. That makes sense, given that it’s about 85 degrees outside, so it’s pretty important to keep things cold in here to preserve the integrity of the ice. Say what you want about the new Garden, but at least we’re pretty sure the warm temperatures won’t lead to something like this happening again.

We’re about 15 minutes from pregame skate, so we’ll give an update once that begins when we should at the very least confirm our suspicions about the Game 1 lineup.

4:45 p.m.: The Rangers are going to block a ton of shots in this series. There’s no other way around it. That’s what they do under head coach John Tortorella, and don’t expect it to stop any time soon. They blocked 161 shots in the first round, which was 20 more than the next team, which was coincidentally the Maple Leafs.

“Got to find ways to get pucks to the net,” Claude Julien said after morning skate.  ”Just got to keep your head up when you’re shooting. They’re going to block shots no matter what. We just got to do the best we can do get them on net. When they don’t, well, they can block them and what can I do?

“As a team, you’re going to get some shots blocked because they like doing it. We’re just going to do our best to get them through and make sure they get to the net, and hopefully get some net-front traffic. That’s going to make things a little tougher for their goaltender, that’s not a secret.”

2:30 p.m.: The Rangers haven’t gotten any real good news in terms of some pretty rough injuries. Forwards Ryane Clowe and Darroll Powe are still out with suspected concussions, as is defenseman Marc Staal who remains out with his eye injury.

Here are the lines the Rangers used at practice Wednesday and again at morning skate on Thursday, per NorthJersey.com.

Carl Hagelin — Derek Stepan — Ryan Callahan
Rick Nash — Derick Brassard — Mats Zuccarello
Taylor Pyatt — Brian Boyle — Derek Dorsett
Chris Kreider — Brad Richards — Arron Asham

Ryan McDonagh — Anton Stralman
Dan Girardi — Michael Del Zotto
John Moore — Steve Eminger

2:11 p.m.: The Bruins, as discussed a little earlier, had to make some changes because of their injuries on the blue line. They showed those off at morning skate.

The B’s also used the same lines Thursday morning that they did Wednesday at practice. Here are the lines and D-pairs.

Milan Lucic — David Krejci — Nathan Horton
Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron — Jaromir Jagr
Rich Peverley — Chris Kelly — Tyler Seguin
Daniel Paille — Gregory Campbell — Shawn Thornton

Zdeno Chara — Dougie Hamilton
Matt Bartkowski — Johnny Boychuk
Torey Krug — Adam McQuaid

12:17 p.m.: While Marchand is likely playing on Thursday night, the availability of the trio of injured D-men (Seidenberg, Ference, Redden) “doesn’t look good,” according to Julien. -JB

12 p.m.: Brad Marchand will be playing on Thursday night, says head coach Claude Julien, despite the winger leaving morning skate early. Marchand left the ice just 20 minutes in, “wincing in pain,” in what appeared to be an injury. -JB

9 a.m. ET: Believe it or not, the Bruins did not win the Stanley Cup with their Game 7 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night at TD Garden. Far from it, actually.

While the comeback and thrilling OT win was something no one will soon forget, all it really did was get the Bruins through one round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. They’ll get a pretty stern reminder of that Thursday night when the B’s open their second-round series with the No. 6 seeded New York Rangers.

The B’s and Blueshirts are no strangers to each other. They met three times this season, with the Rangers winning twice. Those two wins, however, came in overtime, so the two teams actually both got four points out of the three meetings. After struggling in the season’s first couple of months, the Rangers turned it on late in the season, going 9-2-1 after the trade deadline to make the playoffs. They got a tough test in the first round as well where they had to go seven games to dispatch the No. 3 Washington Capitals. New York used shutouts in Games 6 and 7 from Henrik Lundqvist to win the series.

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Puck drop from TD Garden is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

There might not be many goals in this Bruins-Rangers playoff series, but the ones that come will certainly count. With both defensive-minded teams being as careful as possible in their own ends, offense is coming at a premium in Game 1. That’s not anything that’s likely to change as the play continues, but one thing is for sure: there will be more goals.

There have to be, after all. It’s the playoffs. There’s no shootout waiting if a stalemate isn’t ended after five minutes of overtime. They will play as long as they have to — and with these two teams, it might be a while.

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The early returns on the Bruins-Rangers playoff series didn’t quite compare to those from the B’s-Maple Leafs bout. Then again, what could?

With an immortal Game 7 still fresh in the memory banks for Boston fans, Game 1 of the Bruins’ Eastern Conference semifinals was understandably a little underwhelming. That comes with the territory of adjusting to a new team for a new series — and especially when the opponent is such a defensive-minded one.

NESN Nation’s Dan Duquette is trying to make sense of how the first 20 minutes could shape the rest of the games. See what he came up with in the above video.

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The Bruins came dangerously close to a very disappointing first-round exit earlier this week, needing a historic comeback to prevent the Maple Leafs from taking the series after trailing three games to one.

B’s head coach Claude Julien said that near-collapse is nowhere near his players’ minds as the team prepares to take on the New York Rangers, though, and that his team is instead looking at Game 7 only as a positive.

Bruins great Cam Neely joined NESN’s Jack Edwards prior to Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Thursday to take one more look back at Monday’s monumental win and preview what can be expected from the Rangers.

Check it out in the video above.