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Bruins need win as well as payback

Updated: March 18, 2010, 11:47 AM ET
By Joe McDonald | ESPNBoston.com

BOSTON -- Call it revenge. Call it retribution. Call it payback.

Whatever title Boston Bruins fans want to see in lights on the marquee when the Pittsburgh Penguins visit TD Garden Thursday night, it's expected the players will do what needs to be done in a professional manner, then concentrate on playing hockey.

Just because Matt Cooke, the Penguins winger who all but ended the season of the Bruins' Marc Savard with a blindside hit to the head on March 7 in Pittsburgh, will be in ...

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