With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

With the increasing difficulty of scheduling games at Boston Garden ( owned by the NHL rival Boston Bruins ), the owners decided to move the team to Hartford, Connecticut beginning with the 1974-75 season.

With the leadership of Brodeur, they defeated the Boston Bruins in the 1st round after shutting them out in three of their four wins.

With the NHL set to resume in 2005 – 06, Thornton became a restricted free agent in the summer of 2005 and was reportedly unhappy with the state of the Bruins franchise, as well as the criticism of his play in the Bruins ' early playoff exit in 2004.

With a month to go in the 1999 – 2000 season, the Rangers traded him to the Boston Bruins for Rob DiMaio.

With their rivals the Boston Bruins being eliminated by the Sabres in the division semifinals, as well as the two-time defending Cup champions Pittsburgh Penguins being eliminated by the Islanders in the division final, Montreal's path to their first final since became much easier.

With the departure of the major junior Bruins, a new Bruins team was founded in Estevan that same year, which has played in the SJHL ever since.

With the Bruins, MacKay also served as an assistant coach and manager.

With the club's acquisition of Barry Pederson, Gradin became expendable and was allowed to sign as a free agent with the Boston Bruins.

With nagging back spasms keeping Fernandez from play shortly after the All-Star Game break, Rask was once again called up to serve as a second goaltender, and on 31 January 2009 he played his first ( and only ) game with the Bruins in the 2008 – 09 season, and earned his first ever NHL shutout, a 1 – 0 home effort against the New York Rangers, with Marc Savard scoring the only Bruins goal.

With McNown at the helm, the Bruins ' explosive offense carried them on a school-record 20 game winning streak from the previous year, as they won their first 10 games in 1998, before losing to Miami Hurricnaes in their regular season finale in a game that knocked UCLA out of the BCS Championship Game vs. Tennessee.

With Andrew Raycroft sitting out due to a contract dispute, Toivonen started the 2005 – 06 NHL season as the Bruins ' backup goaltender.

With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks.

With Greece struggling to restore its finances, other member states also at risk and the repercussions this would have on the rest of the eurozone economy, a loan mechanism was agreed.

With the Stars struggling to begin the season, GM and head coach Bob Gainey traded for center Joe Nieuwendyk from the Calgary Flames for Corey Millen and Jarome Iginla, then a Stars prospect.

With new opening partner Tom Moody also struggling with 71 runs at 11. 83, Australia frequently struggled at the top of their innings.

With a healthier balance-sheet ( due in large part to box office hits like Stir Crazy, The Blue Lagoon, and Stripes ) Columbia was bought by Coca-Cola on June 22, 1982 for $ 750 million, after having considered buying the struggling Walt Disney Productions.

With only Reynier's small force in Calabria still struggling against the revolt, the British organised an expeditionary force under Sir Sir John Stuart to prevent any potential invasion of Sicily and perhaps to trigger a full scale rebellion against the French across Italy.

With the Leafs struggling once again, Cliff Fletcher traded Gilmour and defenseman Dave Ellett to the New Jersey Devils in 1997 for centerman Steve Sullivan, prospect Alyn McCauley and defenseman Jason Smith.

With 6 million men away to fight in the First World War Britain was struggling for labour.

With the big bands struggling to keep going during World War II, a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups.

1954 – 55: With the NBA struggling financially and down to just 8 teams Nationals owner Danny Biasone suggested the league limit the amount of time taken for a shot thus speeding up a game that often ended with long periods of teams just holding the ball and playing keep away.

With Labour now possessing a " softer " image and the existing conservative coalition struggling with the effects of the Great Depression, Savage's party succeeded in winning the 1935 elections and forming a government.

With Forest struggling in the league and looking increasingly more likely to be relegated, Keane negotiated a new contract with a relegation escape clause.

With the club knocked out of the League Cup and struggling in the league, it was left to the FA Cup to keep the season alive.

With the team struggling, rumors began circulating that the Blue Jackets were contemplating trading Nash as a solution to their on-ice woes.

With the Penguins struggling to make the playoffs, Gonchar returned to play his first game of the season on February 14, 2009, against the Toronto Maple Leafs after being sidelined for 21 weeks.

With cash-strapped Rootes struggling amid continuing engine cooling problems with the Imp which often resulted in warped cylinder heads, the cautious Arrow broke little new engineering ground.

With Kindai Eiga Kyokai close to bankruptcy, Shindo poured what little financial resources he had left into The Naked Island, a film without dialogue which he described as " a cinematic poem to try and capture the life of human beings struggling like ants against the forces of nature.

With the company struggling, he found himself with an offer from Homer McKee.

With the team, and notably starting shortstop Jack Wilson, struggling, there was speculation Castillo could find his way into a starting role, or at least see his appearances become more regular.

With the purchase and popularity of the ranch, the council found themselves struggling to fill weeks of camp at Camp May.

With Barrow relegated from the Football League Third Division into the Fourth Division, the club was struggling financially and the decision was made to create a speedway track around the edge of the football pitch, resurrecting a sport that had briefly been hosted at Holker Street in 1930.

With their quarry escaped, the British frigates returned to Duncan's struggling fleet.

With the major league Chicago Cubs struggling to a last-place finish, Smith came into the big leagues as a September call-up that season.

With its economy already struggling due to recent military expansions, China hastens its planned invasion of Siberia to access newly discovered oil and gold fields.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

With a thoughtful look, the man sat on the pavement, legs straight out in front of him.

With a snakestrike motion he grasped the hair, and, twisting, pulled the marine over on his back.

With a firm grip on the man's hair Matsuo applied the blade flat on a cheek.

With Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, alienation is represented on a purely physical plane.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.

Let them offer on behalf of those creatures whose melody has been the joy of mankind since time began, the hymn `` Abide With Me ''.

With tips, the girls average between $150 and $200 a week, depending on basic salary.

With enormous interest, Adam watched his hands as they touched and shifted the objects on the board directly before him.

With few exceptions travelers on state business are allowed actual travel expenses and $15 per day subsistence.

With colleges and universities carrying a large part of the program, and with students looking toward Peace Corps service, there will be an impact on educational curriculum and student seriousness.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

With respect to skywave service rendered at night, class 1, -- A stations are the only stations permitted to operate in the United States on clear channels specified for class 1, -- A operation, and so render skywave service free from cochannel interference whereever they may be received ; ;

With such a force of manned bombers we could bring enormous pressure to bear on an enemy, and this pressure would be selective and extremely discriminating.

With six in the group, the cost comes to just a nickel a day per person on the daily fee.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

With either of the gradients described, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose separated agglutinins of the ABO series into at least three regions ( Figs. 1 and 2 ): one of extremely low anionic binding capacity, one of low anionic binding capacity and one of high anionic binding capacity.

With the vertex at Af in the C-plane we assume that Af is the parametric location on C of an ordinary intersection Q between C and Af.