I've been putting of writing a eulogy, if you will, for obvious reasons. Since the Flyers put an end to the Bruins season I've had every single emotion possible about the team, the season and the playoffs. I was able to enjoy the Stanley Cup Finals, but it still stung.

But with two weeks until the draft it's time to regroup and look ahead to the 2010-2011 season.

Marc Savard is back, and he's back big.

Less than two full months after getting his brain scrambled by Matt Cooke, Savard put a Hollywood finish on game 1 against the Flyers, scoring the overtime winner and nearly blowing the roof off of the Garden in the process.

Before the GWG it was a mostly uneventful 15 minutes for Savard. He had just one shot on goal, and other than a couple of solid passes was rarely noticed on the ice.

It's official -- Peter Chiarelli has lost his mind.

The Bruins announced today that oft-injured defenseman Andrew Ference to a 3-year extension worth $2.25mil per year. In three full seasons with Boston, Ference has yet to crack the 60 games played mark, playing 59 games in 2007-2008 and 47 games last season. Should he play in every game for the remainder of this season, Ference will have played exactly 60 games.

Over those three years, Ference has a total of 2 goals and 37 assists to go along with a -14 rating.

Tonight marks the first meeting between the Bruins and Penguins since the Marc Savard injury on March 7. Savard is still doing poorly according to Claude Julien, and some people are starting to compare his situation to that of Patrice Bergeron after his devastating hit in 2007.

You will be hard-pressed to find a Bruins fan that does not want some sort of rather extreme measure of revenge taken on Matt Cooke and even some other members of the Penguins. Just earlier this afternoon, a friend of mine said to me, "They should gun for Crosby and Malkin all game.