It's going to be a good fall and winter!

This was a good weekend to be a Boston sports fan; the Bruins had a great 4-1 win on Saturday over the New Jersey Devils and the Patriots had an awesome come from behind victory in OT against the Baltimore Ravens earlier today.

On Saturday the Bruins faced off against Kovalchuk and the Devils.  Tim Thomas got the start for the second game in a row and couldn’t have played better; a huge save came on a dangerous shot by Kovalchuk during a penalty kill at the beginning of the 2^nd to keep it tied at 0 (p.s. – I love Jack Edwards, especially when he says stupid things).  Other notables were Jordan Caron getting his first career NHL goal, and Shawn Thornton and Michael Ryder got their first goals of the season with Lucic tallying another goal making it 2 for the year.  Tyler Seguin picked up his first career NHL assist but the most important part of this was that if you squinted your eyes it looks just like Mark Savard, which is a huge loss to this team right now so it is important that someone can step up.

(Total Savard pass, can't tell you how Seguin saw Ryder but somehow gave a perfect pass for Ryder to snap it over Brodeur's glove)

The Patriots looked to even up the score with the Ravens after the shellacking the Ravens gave us in the postseason last year (which came on my 21^st birthday but it was just another excuse to drink a lot).  With it being our first game without Randy Moss and Deion Branch’s first game back it was tough to tell how we were going to do.  All in all it was a great game, we struggled mostly on offense through 3 quarters and our defense was pretty solid (minus all the penalties Meriweather racked up, one might lead to a fine).  Even with all the bad there is plenty of good to come out of this game.  In Branch’s first game back he recorded 9 catches for 98 yards and a touchdown being the only Patriot to score a touchdown in his second stint after being gone for 4 years.  Another notable was Zoltan Mesko’s 65 yard punt in overtime; it set the Ravens back on their 19-yard line which was huge (every time New England needs to punt, everyone must do this!).  Another great game for Danny Woodhead, nothing that jumps off the page but he did have some great runs for first downs, two of them came on back to back plays that set up the 5-yard touchdown to Branch; I am still seeing little bits of Kevin Faulk whenever I watch him play, he has even got really good at picking up the blitz.  There were a few streaks that we kept alive after this week: Tom Brady’s 23^rd straight win at Gillette in the regular season putting him 2 behind Brett Favre, Wes Welker has had 68 straight regular-season games with at least one catch (that includes all 54 games he has played for us), the Patriots are the only NFL team to begin each of the last five seasons with a record of 3-1 or better through their first 4 games.  Like I said, there is a lot to feel good about but there is a lot that the Patriots need to work on before they play San Diego next week, which the way the Chargers are playing shouldn’t be too bad but we can’t underestimate our opponent.