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Lanny Lee Larson, better known by Tom Larson, whose sports broadcasting career spanned nearly four decades, died this week in Virginia, his family confirmed to the Boston Globe. Larson was 84. Larson had previously been diagnosed with cancer. The former longtime Boston Bruins and Boston Red Sox television host famously vowed to forgo shaving his beard until the city's NHL franchise won the Stanley Cup. Larson made the leap to Boston in the late 60s after spending time in Illinois and Lansing, Michigan. Larson's legendary career with the Bruins television crew started during the 1969-70 season. He hosted the pregame...

Goaltender Gilles Gilbert, who was in net for the Bruins for the infamous Guy Lafleur goal in Game 7 of the 1979 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Canadiens, passed away Sunday, according to reports. He was 74. Gilbert played for the Minnesota North Stars, Bruins, and Red Wings during a 14-season career from 1969-1983. Starting in 1973, he spent seven years with the Bruins, going 155-73-39 in 277 regular-season games, while teaming up with Gerry Cheevers from 1976-80. He was 17-14 for the Bruins in the playoffs, winning 10 times in the run to the 1974 Stanley Cup Final. He...

During a game between the Arizona Coyotes and Boston Bruins on Saturday, the fans took it upon themselves to engage in an all-out brawl to the tune of “Howlin’ for You” by The Black Keys blasting throughout Mullett Arena in Tempe. The slobber knocker included a Coyotes fan slapping a drink toward an oncoming Bruins fan just five seconds in. Unfortunately, the same Coyotes fan seemed to punch and daze a woman in a Rob Gronkowski T-shirt, who luckily got up quickly after. SNIP According to a report from KTAR News, one person was arrested for aggravated assault as a...

Peter McNab, the former NHL player and television color analyst for more than 25 years with the Colorado Avalanche, died on Sunday. He was 70. McNab, who was the color analyst for the Avalanche since their inception in 1995, was diagnosed with cancer last year. Peter McNab had a 14-year career that saw him finish with 363 goals and 818 points over 954 games with the Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks and New Jersey Devils. McNab's contributions as a player and broadcaster resulted in his induction in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 2021.

Former Bruins player and color commentator Johnny Peirson has died at age 95. Peirson played in two NHL All-Star games, hit the 20-goal plateau four times, and finished his career with 153 goals and 173 assists for 326 points in 545 games. He joined the WBZ radio broadcast booth in 1969 and called games alongside play-by-play announcer Fred Cusick. They then transitioned to television together, where they announced Bruins games for 18 years.

Stephanie Lavoie, 32, of Waterbury, Vt., is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court at a date to be announced on six counts of assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery on EMS personnel, disorderly conduct, assault and battery and resisting arrest. No charges were announced against her friend, but Boston police said they met with “violent resistance” from Lavoie, who they said “began screaming at officers, threw herself on the ground and refused to leave the premises. “The female became physically combative and kicked one of the officers,” police said. “The female was told she...

Bob Wilson, the longtime radio voice of the Boston Bruins, died earlier this week. He was 85. Wilson served as play-by-play announcer and color commentator at different times for the Bruins’ radio broadcasts for more than 20 years, including their Stanley Cup-winning campaign of 1971-72. He retired in 1995. “On behalf of the Boston Bruins organization, we are saddened to learn of the passing of Bob Wilson,” Bruins president Cam Neely said in a statement. “For a generation of New England hockey fans, Bob’s legendary voice was synonymous with the Bruins and he will always be a part of our...

BOSTON (CBS) — You’ve seen arenas pull stunts like “white outs,” where all the fans in attendance wear white shirts for big games, but the crowd for Game 3 between the Capitals and Bruins on Monday evening could debut the first ever “Obama out.” Russian Machine Never Breaks, a Capitals hockey blog, posted Sunday that the best way for Capitals fans to get into the head of Bruins goalie Tim Thomas will be to turn every fan in attendance into President Barack Obama. Thomas, of course, skipped the Bruins’ visit to the White House in January. The netminder later explained...

OTTAWA -- Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas, who has become something of a political lightning rod lately, weighed in Friday on his beliefs that the federal government is "out of control." Thomas, who's drawn criticism for choosing not to attend the White House ceremony Jan. 23 honoring the reigning Stanley Cup champion team, reiterated that he believes his decision has been blown out of proportion. "[The controversy] is all media-driven and it has been from the start. Everything that I said and did was as an individual. It was not as a representative of the Boston Bruins," Thomas said Friday...

...Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli confirmed that Thomas had told him months ago he would not attend the White House event due to his political and ideological differences with the Obama administration. Chiarelli said he had tried to convince Thomas to attend the event "over the last couple months" to no avail. "He chose not to come. The reasons behind it I think he'll make the media aware through his Facebook," said Chiarelli.

You might have been hard-pressed to find a hockey expert who thought the Bruins [team stats] were a more skilled team than Vancouver before these Stanley Cup finals began. But hockey is also a game of emotion and, boy, did the Canucks ever stir those emotions in the B’s during Game 3 last night at the Garden. After Canucks defenseman Aaron Rome knocked Nathan Horton out of the game with a blatant, scary shot to the head early in the first period, a shaken B’s team finally got off the mat and buried the Canucks with a second period full...

The Boston Bruins honored legendary radio personality Bob Wilson prior to Saturday’s game against the New York Rangers at the TD Garden. Bruins president Cam Neely introduced Wilson as the home radio booth was named in his honor. Wilson, 82, of Arlington, Mass., served as the voice of the Bruins for 25 years before retiring in 1995. Wilson received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 1987, which was presented by the Hockey Hall of Fame. The Bruins will also install a silver microphone encased in black and gold frame on level 9 at the Garden beneath the home radio booth....

Fred Cusick, the radio and television voice of the Boston Bruins for more than four decades, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 90. Cusick's son, Ted, said his father died at his Barnstable, Mass., home after suffering from cancer. Cusick's death came one day before he was scheduled to be inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Cusick began his career with radio broadcasts of the Bruins in 1952. He moved to television in 1971 and retired from calling games in 1997. Cusick called Boston's Stanley Cup championship in 1970, one of the city's most famous sports moments...

WENHAM — The bear doesn't look like a bear. It looks like a man in a bear suit. The bear doesn't say anything, and the actors around him don't say much either. But Bruins fans are hearing their message loud and clear. A new series of commercials teaching the rules for Boston Bruins fans has become a sensation, with half a million hits in the first week on YouTube. Mullen Advertising of Wenham created the spots using the talents of Jesse Blatz, 36, of Brighton and Greg Almeida, 31, of Peabody. "The Bruins as a client are great," Blatz says....