Boston Bruins win their second in a row in what may have been one of the quickest games of the whole season.  Thomas was as solid as ever (despite letting up two goals), Seguin played what could be the best game of his young NHL career thus far, and even without Krejci the top line continues to product.

The game wasn't all lollipops and rainbows though.  For starters we're sad to say that the whispers of Boychuk returning tonight turned out to be untrue.

Also, if you watched the game, you may have noticed that the Bruins' effort was off and on for the entire game.  Kinda hard to be too hard on them for winning, but that type of play has become a little too typical lately.

After the jump: The good, the bad, and a new movie poster!

Good news, everyone!

We woke up to see this tweet:

To which we replied with:

Needless to say, Murph is somewhere right now trying to scrub that image out of his brain with a brillo pad. Here's the link to his story, by the way. It's the least we can do after that tweet.

We make no attempt at hiding our man love for The Boychuk, so to say that we're excited that he may return to tonight's line-up is nothing close to how we really feel. The entire Days of Y'Orr staff are wearing their Super Boychuk t-shirts today in honor of His Greatness.

We were hoping to have some fantastic Boychuk photoshops for you for this preview but we have days jobs with out Photoshop. You'll have to wait for recap for 'em.

Of course, some MSM reporters aren't quite ready to jump on the Boychuk's Back Tonight! wagon, since JC and PC have him listed DTD (he's been out since Oct 23). As of this post Bish is reporting that JC is saying Boychuck is "game time decision." So, if we're getting you're hopes up and he's not in the line-up tonight just know we'll be as disappointed as the rest of you.

But how awesome would it be for Boychuk to return to face the team that injured him and enact some on-ice revenge on Durbinsky?

After the jump... the Vote for Thornton movement picks up steam, projected line-up, game day links and a classic Tim Thomas/Sean Avery video...

Normally we don't even take on this grade of stupid but we're on our lunch break and we haven't hated on anyone in a while.

Today is that day.

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , asshat extraordinaire for BusinessInsider.com, had a short post this morning claiming the Boston Bruins circumvented the salary cap with Tyler Seguin by having Dunkin Donuts pick him up as their new spokesperson.

Here's what he wrote:

Tyler Seguin, the second overall pick of the 2010 NHL Draft has signed an endorsement deal with Dunkin' Donuts — a company that just happens to be one of his team's biggest sponsors.

The Bruins have significant salary cap issues this season, leading some to speculate that teams are using these deals with trusted corporate partners to funnel extra money to players "under the table."

Matthew Coller of BizofHockey.com has also jumped on the short bus this morning. And all because some dude Terry Frei was told to see "how long it took NHL executives to figure out new ways how to not necessarily circumvent or violate the cap, but to at least find imaginative ways to 'massage' it."

Be careful, Baumer is behind the wheel...

Two things:

1) Seguin's making the rookie max in the league. The Bruins can't pay him any more by NHL rules. So right there it's not cap circumvention.

In fact, here's the rule from NHL-FUCKING-DOT-COM (stress ours):

How much can Entry Level players make?

Entry Level players will be subject to a maximum annual salary (plus signing and games played bonuses) of $850,000 for 2005 and 2006 draftees; $875,000 for 2007 and 2008 draftees; $900,000 for 2009 and 2010; and $925,000 for 2011 draftees.

Seguin's making $900K. He's capped out.

2) The Bruins are still in cap trouble. If the Dunkin Donuts deal was to help the Bruins cap issues... ugh... well... it failed. They're still in trouble when Sturmface and Savard come back. #NHLCapCircumventionFail

3) How is being signed by a sponsor cap circumvention? To think that a team is persuasive enough to get another company to drop bombshells of cash on a player is a bit of a stretch of the imagination, although not entirely out of the realm of possibility.

But it's not like Bruins fans came out in mass swarms to see Seguin play at the Boston Garden during rookie games this fall or are buying his t-shirts by the truckload... Oh wait... they are...

Really. This is just some lazy reporter trying to stir up some trouble and get easy hits for his website. We've provided the link so you can read what shithead wrote, but don't. Don't give him the benefit of the hits; plus, we "excerpted" his entire post in those two graphs anyways. A little more "digging" and he would've noticed the Bruins have maxed out what they can give the rookie.

If Baumer and Co. wants to start a Cap Circumvention Witch Hunt, they'll have to start in another city.