Block Party at TD Garden: Bruins Shut Down Avalanche Attack

Entering Saturday afternoon's rematch with the Colorado Avalanche, the Boston Bruins were looking to snap a six-game losing streak. One week earlier, the Black and Gold dropped a 4-1 decision in Denver.

Colorado entered the game as one of two teams in the league that had yet to suffer a regulation loss. Boston entered one of the losing streaks where it seemed like they were inventing new ways each game to lose. It was getting to the point where you couldn't make up the way they were heartbreakingly dropping games.

Snapping a losing streak against one of the top teams wasn't going to be easy. After losing 7-5 to the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night after allowing four third-period goals. Frustration was boiling over in the locker room following the game, and with coach Marco Sturm. How were they going to fix things against the Avs? Well, they went back to the formula that worked in the first three games of the season.

Bruins have a block party in win over Avalanche

After struggling through the first 14 minutes of the game, where somehow they only gave up one goal, the Bruins struck for two goals 39 seconds apart by Viktor Arvidsson and Mikey Eyssimont for a 2-1 lead. The Black and Gold grinded out a 3-2 win.

Jeremy Swayman stopped 31 shots in goal for the Bruins to pick up the win, and he made some big saves throughout the game to keep his team in the lead and give them a chance to win. While he was doing his part, his teammates did theirs. Boston finished the game with 34 blocked shots to help out their netminder.

“The best thing ever. It’s a momentum shifter, I think, in a game. Guys selling out, not getting out of position, but sacrificing their body for the greater good of the team. That’s important for us,”

Swayman said. “Really thankful to have these guys in front of me.”

Thirty-four shot blocks in a game is truly sacrificing the body. However, when you are on a six-game losing streak, you're going to do whatever you need to do to win a game. Colorado, you knew, was going to be relentless in getting shots attempted, but the Bruins helped out their goalie and picked up a desperately needed win.

Detroit Lions Cornerback Admits 'Partying' Too Much With Raiders

Detroit Lions cornerback Amik Robertson revealed during a recent podcast interview why he had struggles during his stint with the Las Vegas Raiders.

Appearing on the "St. Brown Bros." podcast, the talented defender expressed his switch to nickel cornerback came with struggles, which he felt changed how he was perceived by the coaching staff.

To deal with the growing stress, Robertson admitted he frequented casinos on a regular basis and partied often.

“I don’t really gamble,” Robertson explained, when discussing the early portion of his career in Las Vegas. "Before, I was partying, I’m going to be honest. I was doing that my first two years. I was doing that a lot. But, it’s the reason why I was doing that, too. I don’t want to go in too deep. Vegas was tough.”

After being asked to elaborate, Robertson shared the difficulties he experienced handling early career struggles.

“I come in, I get drafted. Everybody loves me. Then they move me to nickel. Never played that in my life. That s**t was like Chinese. They just threw me in the water to play nickel," said Robertson. "I didn’t even understand nickel. I didn’t perform the way. Now everybody like, they are turning their back on me. And it’s like, then we didn’t have OTAs. We didn’t have because of COVID, we didn’t have none of that.

“So, I had to learn from the iPad. It’s different when you’re looking rather than really doing it," Robertson added. "And when I got out there, them bullets was flying. I just couldn’t handle it, and two years straight, I was in an island, I was in a bad place and that’s what forced me to go out a lot.”

"I was in a bad place, bro, and that's what forced me to go out a lot."

Amik Robertson (@_YoungTruth7) opens up about his time with the Las Vegas Raiders, noting that he partied a lot during his first two years but those days are long behind him 🗣️
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The former Louisiana Tech defender admitted going out and feeling the support out in public helped to relieve the growing tension and stress he felt at the Raiders' facility.

“When you don’t feel accepted, when you just got high school, middle school, and college, and everybody loved you,” Robertson said. “But then, when you get to the league and they start to love you just a little bit, but people also start turning their backs on you.

“It’s like going to the clubs, around all these people, I feel love. So that’s why I was just going out every night. But eventually, I ended up finding myself again and realized, ‘No, that’s not me.’ I had to get back to my roots.”