By Joe Haggerty
CSNNE.comOTTAWAThe road trip has nearly come to an end for the Boston Bruins as they sit 5-0-0 and inch toward a perfect six-game swing through Canada and Long Islanda pair of places that wont be confused for one another.Tuukka Rask started the first two games of the two-part trip, and won both games against the New York Islanders and Ottawa Senators. Now it appears that the 23-year-old will start the last two games of the road trip after capturing a narrow victory in Edmonton and being the first goaltender off the ice during morning skate at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa.Rask sits at 8-11-1 after a modest three-game winning streak, and will be getting consecutive starts for only the third time this season when he takes the ice against the Senators.Operation Tim Thomas gets a breather is in full deployment for the Black and Gold, and it looks like the perfect time to get Rask back to work. The Ottawa Senators are a team filled with hungry AHL players from the Binghamton Senators after a flurry of trade deadline moves by Ottawa GM Bryan Murray.So they may just be ripe for the picking, and ready to give Boston that perfect road trip theyve been yearning.On to the links:The Blackhawks are finally starting to resemble last years Stanley Cup squad after going through a long hangover period in the early months of the season.Rolling Stones web site has the exclusive new Dropkick Murphys video Going Out in Style that features Bobby Orr, Milan Lucic, Shawn Thornton and Kevin Youkilis among others. Cool stuff, and Thornton swears those were shots of diet coke he was throwing back.David Steckel really didnt expect to be traded to the New Jersey Devils, and Im not quite sure that deal makes Washington a better team.Sergei Samsonovs reaction to the Observer while suiting up at the RBC Center with the Florida Panthers to play the Hurricanes team that just dealt him? Weird, was the only way to describe it.Texas oil mogul Douglas Miller makes a bid to purchase the Dallas Stars, according to a report in The Hockey News. Somebody needs to take the team of Tom Hicks hands.Newsday writer Katie Strang gives everyone a peekbehind the scenes on NHL trade deadline day while keeping in contact with Zenon Konopka.Good look by Sporting News writer and FOH (Friend of Haggs) Craig Custance at the way Sidney Crosbys concussion might force the NHLs hand in creating more stringent rules about head shots.