BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — When Hampus Lindholm got the puck inside Boston’s blue line after teammate Fraser Minten broke up the Buffalo Sabres’ rush, and the Bruins defenseman knew immediately who to look for. Sure enough, there was David Pastrnak already heading toward Buffalo’s zone. Set ...
BOSTON (AP) — Joel Embiid was even better in his second game back. And that was good enough for the Philadelphia 76ers to avoid elimination in their first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics. Less than three weeks after an emergency appendectomy knocked Embiid out for the end of ...
TORONTO (AP) — Trey Yesavage pitched into the sixth inning in a sharp season debut, Kazuma Okamoto drove in two runs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 3-0 on Tuesday night. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added an RBI single as Toronto stopped Boston’s season-best winning streak at ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alex Cora had barely been out of a job after the World Series champion manager was fired by the Red Sox when his old boss offered him a professional lifeline. Dave Dombrowski, the Phillies’ president of baseball operations, wanted to know that if Rob Thomson was fired, ...
BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics took the 76ers’ best punches in the first three quarters of their Game 5 matchup with Philadelphia. Then everything fell apart for Boston. The Celtics carried an 86-85 lead into the final period before being outscored 28-11 over the final 12 minutes of their ...
Brad Stevens built a Boston roster that earned the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference last season, then had to part ways with four members of that roster to escape what could have been a massive luxury tax bill. The result? Boston was No. 2 in the East again — and remains a legitimate ...
