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I spent considerable time the last few days watching and listening to hockey games emanating from Boston.

The University of Maine Black Bears were quite inspiring in their pursuit of a Hockey East championship, first with their semifinal win over Boston University and then by battling Boston College into overtime of their championship match.

But ultimately the best team won, with BC securing the Hockey East crown and the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division I tournament.

As for Maine, second place in the tournament wasn't good enough. While New Hampshire and Vermont earned at-large bids to the NCAAs, Maine came up empty - a victim of its inconsistency throughout the winter.

Yet their play in Boston over the weekend seemingly deserved a better reward - which may come next season.

Then there are the Boston Bruins, who would earn the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff berth if the NHL postseason began today.

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But you wouldn't know it by their effort in one of their most anticipated games of the regular season against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

That game was 11 days removed from their previous meeting, when Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke blindsided Boston's Marc Savard with a shoulder to the head that gave the Bruins standout a concussion that will sideline him for the rest of the season.

The Bruins did not retaliate during that game, so expectations were great that they would come up with an inspired performance in honor of their fallen star the next time these teams met.

Sure enough, five seconds into Cooke's first shift of the rematch, Boston's Shawn Thornton found him and punched him to the TD Garden ice surface.

That was about the last sign of life from the Bruins in Replica Accutron Watches a thoroughly lackluster 3-0 home-ice loss.

After the match the Bruins had the excuses ready, that several players had flu-like symptoms, and that once Thornton had extracted revenge much of the night's emotion vanished.

Neither excuse was good enough, particularly for a team many believed at the start of the season could contend for the Stanley Cup.

Maybe the Bruins should watch a few University of Maine tapes.

- Ernie Clark

Patriots will not let issues linger for long

Another offseason, another Super Bowl victory party being planned by overzealous fans of the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets...

Yes, the green-and-white delusions of grandeur were inflamed before the offseason even began after New England lost big in a lackluster and listless effort against Baltimore and a New York Jets victory in the first round of the playoffs.

The easily excitable Jets fanatics had their irrational division title dreams further sparked by the signing of talented-but- troubled cornerback Antonio Cromartie and fading star tailback LaDainian Tomlinson.

Meanwhile, Patriots fans had to content themselves with less flashier re-signings of regulars like Vince Wilfork, albeit one of the best defensive tackles in the game, linebacker Tully Banta- Cain, corner Leigh Bodden, offensive lineman Stephen Neal, and all- purpose back Kevin Faulk.

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