Its tough for me because I never really had a major injury

BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins keep rolling at home. David Krejci snapped a tie and set up Milan Lucics goal as the Bruins earned a split of a two-game set with a 4-1 victory Saturday night. Reilly Smith had a power-play and an empty-netter for Boston, which won its seventh straight at home. The Bruins havent lost at home in regulation since late October, going 12-0-2 in their last 14 games. "Thats what youre trying to do every year," Lucic said about Bostons run at TD Garden. "You want to make your building a tough one to play in." Its Bostons best run at home since winning 14 straight from Oct. 25, 2008-Jan. 1, 2009. "Every season we start talking about it, creating the atmosphere and getting the fans in it when we play against teams at home," Boston goalie Tuukka Rask said. "Youre always disappointed when you lose at home." Zemgus Girgensons scored for the Sabres, who beat the Bruins 4-2 in Buffalo on Thursday night. The Sabres, who havent won three straight this season, had a two-game winning streak broken. Bruins coach Claude Julien said the teams overall play is growing with each win in its own rink. "I think the more times you win, the more confidence you get," he said. "We talked about it before the season, wanting our building to be a tough building to come in to." Rask, who was rested Thursday, made 34 saves, including a pair of key stops early in the third period. Buffalo backup Jhonas Enroth stopped 35 shots and dropped to 1-7-3. Sabres interim coach Ted Nolan felt like its even tougher for his team to win on the road when its not getting production from all if its lines. "It tough to win in this league if you only have one line going and a couple of other guys and a goaltender," he said. "Especially with us, we need a little bit more. But tonight it just wasnt there." Krejcis goal broke a 1-1 tie early in the second period. Trailing and coming down the centre of the ice, Krejci took a drop pass from Jarome Iginla before waiting and firing a wrist shot past Enroths glove. Krejci fed Lucic in the slot from the left circle, and Lucic beat Enroth with a wrister inside the left post. Smith scored his empty-netter 21.4 seconds left. Rask made a pair of right-pad saves seconds apart early in the third. Matt Ellis stole the puck from Brad Marchand near the blue line and cut in alone. Linus Omark fired in the rebound. "Its a one-goal game. You try and keep it that way," Rask said. "We gave them some turnovers and they couldnt score. I guess you can say it was a momentum changer." The Bruins were short-handed two players for a lengthy stretch in the second period after Patrice Bergeron was called for cross-checking, and Gregory Campbell got a four-minute penalty for high-sticking Jamie McBain 11 seconds later. Boston held Buffalo to two shots during the initial 1:49 stretch, and one when they were down one man. Krejci felt like it was the truning point. "It was big," he said. "It was a long 5-on-3, but we killed that. From there it felt like we took over the game and were in control." Buffalos captain Steve Ott said his team didnt challenge enough in Bostons end of the ice. "I didnt think we did a good job of getting pucks behind them and then creating a fore check," he said. Boston was short two players again with just over 6 minutes left in the game, but Ott got a slashing penalty seconds into the advantage. Boston took a 1-0 on Smiths power play goal 9:39 into the game. Carl Soderberg sent a pass across the top of the crease to Smith, who one-timed a shot into an open side of the net. The Sabres tied it late in the period when Girgensons banged in the rebound of Matt Moulsons shot. Moulsons wraparound attempt popped into Rasks stick side. NOTES: Bergeron had his first career regular-season fight late in the second period, taking on Sabres defenceman Tyler Myers. ... 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Cleared by team doctors after undergoing tests on his injured groin on Tuesday, DeRozan - who has missed Torontos last 18 games - says he is fully healed and pain-free but doesnt want to rush the process. The Raptors had hoped to have their all-star guard back in uniform as early as Thursday, when they host the Charlotte Hornets, but theyve opted to err on the side of caution, getting DeRozan in a few more practices and building his conditioning up following a six-week absence. At first I was [hoping to play Thursday], DeRozan admitted after going through his third practice since the injury on Wednesday morning. I owe that to [my teammates], not to just jump back in the game. I want to get a couple more practices in over these next couple days and then make a comeback. I was hoping, fingers crossed, toes crossed, Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. Realistically, I knew that if there was a question or if there was a little doubt, we were going to be patient and not rush him back. Selfishly, from a coachs [perspective], I wanted him to come back [Thursday]. Its the right thing to do. I totally understand. Im on board with it. I agree with it. The team hasnt officially ruled DeRozan out for Saturdays game at home to Boston but a return sometime next week appears more likely. The Raptors guard is hoping to get in an additional three-to-four practices before suiting up again. If thats the case, we could see him back for Wednesdays tilt with Philadelphia or Fridays contest against Atlanta. He looks good in practice, Casey continued. But just for his safety and his future health and his career, were going to be prudent just to make sure we go at the right pace, bring him back at the right time. And its the right thing to do. All of the doctors are saying it. I know it is killing him, because hes champing at the bit. Ive seen so many players have the same injury. You think youre back. But if those fibres have not grown back and matured in the right way, the littlest torque could pull it out and then hes out for the rest of the year. We want to be smart. Next man up. Its been a long month and change for DeRozan, a player that had missed just 10 games due to injury over his first five years in the league. Learning to cope with and recover from the first health-related setback of his playing career hasnt been easy on the 25-year-old, but he is relieved to be nearing the end of his forced time off. Its tough for me because I never really had a major injury, he said. Just dealing with it, having to start all over, being patient every single day, working on it, having to heal, going through the pain and really having to get my rhythm back, its definitely been tough.dddddddddddd But its a new challenge for me. I think Ive grown mentally more when it comes to basketball than I may have if I wasnt hurt. So I take pros and cons from it. DeRozan has been trying to stay busy. Traveling with the team and often rehabbing on the court before games and after practices, the Raptors guard has also been sitting in on the coaches meetings. He has watched the teams varying results, mostly from behind the scenes - hes said that sitting on the bench makes him anxious. The Raptors are 11-7 without DeRozan but 10 of those wins have come against inferior competition - theyre 1-6 when facing winning teams over that span. I think its bigger than me, he said. Besides the last couple games the team lost, theyve been playing well. They have their rhythm and like I said, I dont just want to hop back out there. Theres a lot of new plays they put in that I still got to get down pat - plays for [Terrence Ross], plays for Kyle [Lowry] and everything. So I want to make sure I get all that down pat before I come back so there wont be [any] learning on the [fly]. During that time, Lowry has put the team on his shoulders, running many of the plays that are generally called for DeRozan, as the primary option on offence. Hes been amazing, man, honestly, DeRozan said of Lowry. I cant even say words that can explain how hes been playing. He definitely took the team on his back. Its definitely been amazing. Hes run every single one of my plays since Ive been out, he joked. It kinda [makes] me happy, but I tell em one thing yall cant do is get to the free throw line like me. (The Raptors are averaging nearly seven fewer free throw attempts per game without DeRozan) It was around this time last year that DeRozan became a first-time all-star and he believes Lowry is well on his way to doing the same this season. He insisted they both would have made the team if not for his injury, but isnt stressing his own status, instead hes focused on getting healthy and reaching that level once again. I cant really worry about that because if I dont get this injury right I might never be able to make an all-star team again, he said. So, [the] All-Star Game [is] here [in Toronto] next year, if were doing well I dont see why we [dont] have three people from the team in the All-Star Game. I was an all-star last year. I watch the game now, they say Toronto Raptors missing their all-star, so Ill always have the title no matter what. ' ' '