{"id":474479,"date":"2026-02-27T05:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/474479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:41:17","slug":"bruins-top-blue-jackets-4-2-after-olympic-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/474479\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins top Blue Jackets 4-2 after Olympic break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBOSTON \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Bruins returned from their Olympic break Thursday, playing their first game back against the Columbus Blue Jackets. <\/p>\n<p>Before the game, the team celebrated defenseman Charlie McAvoy and goalie Jeremy Swayman, who helped the U.S. men&#8217;s hockey team win gold against Canada. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s starting to sink in now. The reaction that we&#8217;ve gotten from the people in the U.S. the second we landed down, and just the outreach of family, it&#8217;s a childhood dream come true,&#8221; Swayman said. &#8220;An unbelievable feeling, incredible feeling that we&#8217;ll cherish forever.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, it kind of feels like, I guess, in a way, like a Stanley Cup thing \u2014 like, almost like the year should be over now,&#8221; McAvoy said. &#8220;You had to dial back in and realize that, you know, what this team has done so far this year, this position that we&#8217;ve put ourselves in, like what we&#8217;ve done, you know, alone, has been really special too.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Seven other Bruins who attended the Olympics were also recognized, including General Manager Don Sweeney, who was part of Team Canada&#8217;s front office and won silver, as well as defenseman Henri Jokiharju and goalie Joonas Korpisalo, who won bronze with Team Finland.  <\/p>\n<p>In the first period, the Blue Jackets took a 1-0, but the Bruins tied the game before the first intermission. Boston went on to win 4-2.  <\/p>\n<p>The Bruins have 24 games left in less than two months of the regular season and currently hold the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.  <\/p>\n<p>The team will visit the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday at 3 p.m. The game can be watched live on WMUR-TV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The Boston Bruins returned from their Olympic break Thursday, playing their first game back against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,2154,230,593,2217,1754,5,156,1619,1805,4,2602,182,43,7957],"class_list":{"0":"post-474479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-charlie-mcavoy","13":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","14":"tag-don-sweeney","15":"tag-eastern-conference","16":"tag-henri-jokiharju","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-jeremy-swayman","19":"tag-joonas-korpisalo","20":"tag-massachusetts","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-olympics","23":"tag-playoffs","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-td-garden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116140997577602810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}