End of Bruins veteran's scoring drought could give team a huge lift

Given the choice James van Riemsdyk would have made this trade. If he was given the option of going 21 straight games over two months without a goal so he could score one big one for the Bruins in the playoffs? “I'd like to think I was saving them for the playoffs,” he said smiling. Van Riemsdyk, who regularly scored 15-20 goals a year earlier in his career with Philadelphia and Toronto, didn't score in his last 20 regular season games for Boston, which included a stretch when he was weakened by illness.