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The Bruins started strong and finished well, and that was enough to escape their final visit of the year to Montreal with two points.

Those two points might be the only thing the Bruins will want to take out of Wednesdays 4-3 shootout victory over the Canadiens, but for a team desperate to snap out of a month-long malaise, thats enough for now.

I give the guys a lot of credit, said Bruins coach Claude Julien, whose club is now 7-7-1 in its last 15 games. I really felt that we played through a lot of adversity tonight. It was tough to keep them focused, not get frustrated, but thats what we had to do and our guys did a decent job of that.

That adversity included an injury...

Atlanta will resume a five-game road trip tonight in the
desert when it takes on a Phoenix Suns team finishing up a tough three games
in three nights stretch.

The Hawks, who will also visit Portland, Chicago and New York on their trip,
are now 9-6 as the visitor on the season after dropping the opener of their
trek to the Lakers, 86-78, on Tuesday.

Jeff Teague scored 18 points to lead Atlanta in that one while Josh Smith and
Joe Johnson had 15 apiece as the Hawks lost their second straight and for the
fifth time in seven games.

LA shot 44 percent from the field and held Atlanta to 34.4 percent.

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Kayak is boosting its hotel search today with the integration of hotel reviews from Trip Advisor into search results. Via an agreement with the reviews giant, Kayak will be integrating all all TripAdvisor reviews into the Kayak Hotel Search. Simply put, when you search for a hotel on Kayak, all of the over 60 million TripAdvisor reviews will be included in the KAYAK search results.

In October, Kayak launched a hotel Recommendations filter that allowed users to narrow results by expert recommendations, and pulled in reviews from Frommers and Budget Travel. Users will also be able to filter search results by TripAdvisor as well, ticking off a box will filter out any non-TA reviewed properties....

Anglers aboard the Native Sun last weekend saw great times and good fishing for the opening weekend of Fishing with Phil Twilight Trips out of Long Beach Sportfishing. Fifty-two anglers caught nearly 200 sand bass and over 150 sculpin on Saturday and Sunday.

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The great catch came despite some windy weather on the Saturday evening trip. That was a lot of fun, said Capt. Jeff Jones, who with his new wife Shari, caught several sand bass and sculpin. 

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Juan Carlos and his daughter Francis were busy having a great time together. Carlos couldnt do anything wrong on the trip, landing sand bass and sculpin all night long. Francis got to touch a guitarfish before...

Two people ride a snowmobile near Fishing Bridge during a January trip into Yellowstone National Park. (Ruffin Prevost/Yellowstone Gate)