Let's face it. The Bruins only showed up for the third period last night. Not sure what was said in the locker room, but it lit a fire under their ass. They tired the game only to lose anyways. They deserved to lose; they played like crap.

Good news is they were able to do in 10 minutes what it took the Caps to do in 40.

But poor Tuukka Rask. Kid gets tossed in a spiraling game when the team is down three goals. Bs tie. He gives up one goal and gets hit with the loss. While Thomas still has a perfect record.

Life isn't fair. C'est la vie! as Bergeron would say.

Not that Thomas was to blame either. Giving up a 3-on-1 while you're on the power play is Bush League

We know the media were getting a boner at the idea of a Thomas vs. Halak (early-Vezina candidates) match-up, but Two-Us-Two-Ks-Two-points should get the start tonight. We expect Rask to come out solid. Last night was a nice warm up; let him brush off the rust.

If you're near the Boston area, be sure to hit up the Boston Sports Blogapolooza II over at the Baseball Tavern by Kenmore Sq. Days of Y'Orr's own Jon Fucile will be in attendance to talk hockey during the Bruins/hockey panel discussion.

After the jump... some interesting stats, projected line up and game day links/video...

The Bruins showed up too late and lost too many faceoffs as they fell to the Crapitals. Games like this are frustrating. If the Bruins had showed up for even 10 minutes in the first two periods they would've won. And then to add insult to injury the Caps were diving left and right. How do they even look themselves in the mirror every day?

Thomas finally got to know how Rask feels. No help at all. Game should've been like 8-0 after the second but Thomas said no. Caps where laying down on the ice more than Thomas. Caps were diving so deep they saw fish.

After the jump... a recap brought to you by the Russian Olympic Diving team....

Remember, remember, the fifth of November; the gunpowder treason and plot...

Yea, it has nothing to do with hockey. We're just history dorks over here at DOY HQ.

Bruins take on the Washington Crapitals once again. Last time we saw the Crapitals, the Bruins defeated them in the home-and-home games, including what should've been a home opener shutout for Mr. Tim Thomas who decided he felt bad for Washington and gave them a free goal -- boost their morale or something.

Thomas continues to defy expectations and physics with his play of late. He's hot, like real hot, and the Bruins are enjoying every minute of it.

Bruins are responsible for half of Washington's losses so far this season.

Not much else to say to preview the game. We're wondering how long it'll be before Oviechicken slew foots someone in the corner out of pure frustration.

Lucic talked about the team growing mustaches for Movember.

Haggs is reporting Looch is going with the Burt Reynolds 'stache. Surprisingly, it looks good on him.

We're really excited about it. It's like a mini playoff beard. And anything that continues to unite the team is a bonus.

After the jump... projected line-up, fun game day links and more hockey video for your viewing pleasure... not ribbed, though... sorry...

If you'an NHL fan, you've read (or at least heard) that Anaheim Duck bruiser George Parros has shaved off his beloved and infamous mustache in honor of Movember, a mustache growing charity event to raise money and awareness for men's health (specifically their balls).

Not only has Parros lost the source of his power by shaving off his lip caterpillar, but he's also started a movement among NHL players. Several Bruins are also...err.. riding the mustache (bandwagon) by growing some lip fur of their own, including Horton, Thornton and Lucic.

Rumor has it that Lucic is considering several types of mustaches to grow for Movember, and since the Days of Y'Orr staff are big fans of mustaches, we did a little "digging" to find out what Looch would look like in different 'stach-styles.

After the jump, we look at the many mustaches of Milan Lucic...like you didn't know this was coming...

All you need to know is that Thomas let up two goals this game.  Obviously his time has passed, trade him now.

Oh wait:

Yeah, we couldn't agree more twitter, if Thomas keeps this up, he's heading for his second Vezina in 3 years.  But enough of praising the current top goalie in the NHL...

After the jump, a look at what we liked and didn't like.

Our dear Bruins return to action tonight coming off two straight divisional wins and shutouts on the back of Tank Thomas.

The last time the Bruins saw the Sabres they were celebrating before the playoffs abruptly ended for no reason at all. Wacky NHL and their quirky scheduling... yeah.... that's it.

The Sabres are hurting. They've struggled mightily this year and now Ryan Miller is hurt. So easy victory right? We'll have to agree with Matt Kalman on this one:

Bruins are 6-2-0. That doesn't mean they can relax. Two points still up for grabs tonight. Bruins need to treat the Sabres like Ike treated Tina. Do it.

After the jump some game day links, our preview and a fun old time video....

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If you didn't see it, Chris Neil decided to pull a Scott Walker and sucker punch Seidenberg at the end of the third period.

Here's the video:

Lame sauce. Neil somehow got off with only fighting major and a roughing minor. No instigator. Not sure if the refs even know what an instigator is anymore. We sure as hell don't. It's one of those penalties that appear when a ref hasn't been laid in a while.

Bruins extra spare-part and former teammate of Chris Neil, Brian McGratten did not take lightly to Neil's scuffing. Per Boston.com:

"I heard about it. That's typical Chris Neil. I had to protect that guy for three years when I was there. He'd do that and I'd have to fight all his battles for him the next time we'd play a team after he'd do something stupid like that. It doesn't surprise me.

That's the way he does it. He'll do something where he knows he'll get kicked out of the game and won't have to come back and fight anybody. I've been around him long enough to know he does that. Then I'm the one who usually has to fight his battles the next time. It's typical."

Tough words from a guy hasn't seen a regular season NHL game this year. Not sure if he's hoping Julien will toss him in the line-up so he can enact some ice justice, but it can't hurt his chances. We wouldn't mind seeing that bout either.

Neil has quite the fan club.

Murph had this tweet:

And, of course, there's always Lucic.

Either way. Mark your calendars and get your tix, 'cause Nov 13th is gonna be wild.

Big thanks to everyone who voted for us in the 2010 Bloguin Awards. We won Best Banner, to which we can only take partial credit for. We came up with the basic concept, but the actual creation was done by Stephen S. of the PensBlog. He does fantastic work and our banner wouldn't be as awesome if it weren't for him.

Back in May we were using WordPress for our blog. This was the banner we had back then.

Then in July we got picked up by Bloguin to be the network' second Bruins blog. Stephen S. made our new banner. This is what we sent him:

A tough looking Bear flying in the air Bobby Orr-style with the old Bruins logo in background http://cdn.nhl.com/bruins/images/upload/2007/06/logo_history.jpg (the '24-'25 chest logo). The words "Days of Y'Orr" in a Bruins-esque font

Here's what he made:

Huge win. Hundreds of times better than what we had. So big thanks to Stephen for his talent and hard work here at Bloguin. It's much appreciated.

And congrats to all the other blogs that won this year. Dear readers, if you haven't yet, you should check out the other fine sports blogs on Bloguin.

Sorry about the lack of a recap today, but all you really need to know is Thomas is a beast and now has 3 shutouts in 6 games.

We got a Halloween card from Patrice Purrgeron.  Not quite sure what he's doing with those women in that haunted house, and we really don't want to know:

From all of us at Days of Y'Orr, have a happy Halloween!

Second straight Adams Northeast Division rivalry game for the Bruins tonight as the take on Ottawa.  While this may be our least favorite of the interdivisional match ups, still should be a good one to watch; even if the Senators logo looks like an albino Spartan.

But yeah, to level with you this will probably be a shorter preview than usual.  This is the weekend of All Hallows Eve and everyone seems to be in the spirit already.  We already told you how some of the Bruins are dressing up, and the DOY crew has their own way of celebrating.  Believe me, there is nothing we like more than candy, booze, and scantily clad women.

So we're kinda like Charlie Sheen...without the awful sitcom.

After the jump.  Videos, Lines, and Links.