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BOSTON - The Boston Bruins have been dealing with injuries all season — just not this well.Humbled on the road two nights before and playing without two of their top forwards, the Bruins pounced quickly on Detroit and never let up during a 5-2 win over the Red Wings on Monday night.Boston had a season-high 45 shots on goal and countered the offensive outburst with stifling defence, holding Detroit to six shots in the final period.It was pretty obvious tonight that there was a bigger determination and commitment to working hard from start to finish, Boston coach Claude Julien said.The Bruins were without leading scorer Patrice Bergeron and winger Milan Lucic, both out with undisclosed injuries lingering from Saturday nights 6-2 loss at Columbus.Boston responded with one of its strongest performances of the season — short-handed or at full-strength. Carl Soderberg had a goal and two assists and was one of five players to score for Boston.That was a great example of how we need to play for pretty much the rest of the season, Boston captain Zdeno Chara said. Its pretty simple. We had the right attitude and right approach right from the first drop of the puck.Reilly Smith, Gregory Campbell and Seth Griffin also scored for Boston before Chris Kelly added an empty-net goal with 2:26 left to play. Loui Eriksson had a pair of assists and Tuukka Rask finished with 28 saves for Boston.I think everyone was focused on going over the boards and doing their job for the 40 or 50 seconds they were on the ice, Kelly said. It was wave after wave. Every line contributed and played really well.Boston took a 3-1 lead in the first and was outshooting Detroit 30-24 through two periods.They threw in a lot of pucks and created chances off that, Detroit captain Henrik Zetterberg said. We tried to do that, too, but weve got to have the puck. We didnt win a lot of faceoffs in the first period and its tough to start without the puck.Jimmy Howard kept the Red Wings close despite the onslaught of pucks coming at him and finished with 40 saves.Justin Abdelkader and Tomas Tatar scored for Detroit, which had won two straight. Tatars power-play goal 15:10 into the second period pulled Detroit to 3-2, but Griffith scored 5:11 into the third to restore the two-goal cushion and Bostons defence kept much of anything from reaching Rask the rest of the way.We recognized after that game on Saturday that the way weve played for the most part this season is not going to be good enough to make the playoffs, Rask said. Its time to change that.Campbells goal 16:12 into the game gave Boston a 2-1 lead. Campbell joined the play after Rask headed to the bench during a delayed penalty call for the extra attacker. Soderberg picked up an assist with a sweeping pass while face-down on the ice. Soderberg then scored 1:13 later.Tatar, who had a tip-in disallowed because of a high stick late in the first period, pulled Detroit to 3-2 on a power-play goal with 4:50 left in the second.NOTES: Bostons previous high for shots in a game was 41 against Columbus on Nov. 21. Detroits season-high for shots allowed was also 41 vs. Toronto on Dec. 13. ... Pavel Datsyuk, Niklas Kronwall, Danny DeKeyser and Stephen Weiss had assists for the Red Wings. ... Boston recalled F Matt Lindblad from Providence of the AHL on Monday. Cheap Custom Baseball Jerseys . The future hall of famers stole the show at the Bell Centre on Tuesday night, with Jagr moving into seventh place in all-time goal scoring and Brodeur stopping 29 shots as the Devils downed the Montreal Canadiens 4-1. 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Over two rounds at Congressional, he missed 16 greens and managed to save par only three times. Woods was back -- just not for very long. Playing for the first time in more than three months because of back surgery, he had a 4-over 75 on Friday and missed the cut by four shots. It was only the 10th time in his PGA Tour career that Woods missed a 36-hole cut, and the first time he didnt sound overly distressed. "I hate to say it, but Im really encouraged by what happened this week," Woods said. "I missed the cut by four shots -- thats a lot. But the fact that what I was able to do physically, and the speed I had and the distance that I was hitting the golf ball again, I had not done that in a very long time. Felt great today. Then, as I said, I made so many little mistakes ... all the little things that I know I can fix. But as I said, thats very encouraging." And it wasnt all that surprising. Woods had played only four tournaments this year while coping with an increasingly sore back, which led him to have surgery March 31 and miss the first two majors. He had hoped to return for the British Open next month. Instead, he felt strong enough to play the Quicken Loans National, primarily because it benefits his foundation and Woods figured he needed to get in a little competition before going to Royal Liverpool. Even it if was only two rounds. "I came back four weeks earlier than we thought I could," Woods said. "I had no setbacks. I got my feel for playing tournament golf. I made a ton of simple, little mistakes -- misjudging things and missing the ball on the wrong sides and just didnt get up-and-down on little, simple shots. Those are the little things I can correct." Marc Leishman of Australia turned potential bogey into unlikely birdie when he holed out from 127 yards on the par-5 ninth hole on his way to a 5-under 66 and a four-way share of the lead going into the weekend. Oliver Goss, another Aussie who is making his second pro start, had a bogey-free 66 and joined Leishman at 6-under 136 along with Ricky Barnes (69) and Patrick Reed (68), who already has won twice this year. Woods was 13 shots behind at 7-over 149. It wasnt the largest 36-hole gap from the leaders in the previous nine timees he missed the cut on the PGA Tour.dddddddddddd It just looked that way. Woods took two shots to get out of a plugged lie in a bunker on the fifth hole and made double bogey. He three-putted for par on the next hole and never looked more sloppy than on the short par-4 eighth. He was in perfect position after hitting a big drive, 61 yards from the hole at the right angle. His pitch was too strong and left of the flag, leaving him a downhill chip from the collar. He hit that 7 feet by and missed the par putt. Even so, the damage came after consecutive bogeys around the turn. His tee shot went into a hazard on No. 11, forcing him to punch out. He hit a wild hook off the tee on the 12th, and his second shot was headed for a bunker until it was suspended in the grass on the lip of the sand. He hit a poor chip from below the green on the 13th. And from the 14th fairway, he missed the green and hit another poor chip. Four bogeys, no time to recover. "If it were anybody else, I would say that I would expect kind of a struggle. But you just never know with Tiger," Jordan Spieth said after his own brilliant display of a short game that allowed him to make the cut. "He just got a couple rounds under his belt. So hes going to be a severe threat at the British -- probably a favourite -- and after playing these couple rounds, I think hell take something from it. "Hes not that far off from being right back to where he was." Woods took encouragement from not feeling any pain in his back, and from swinging as hard as he wanted with his driver. Thats what concerned him about playing this week. Turns out it was the two shortest clubs in his bag -- the wedge and putter -- that did him in. It was surprising to see Woods go straight from the range to the tee in both rounds. Most players give themselves a few extra minutes in the chipping area. "The short game was off," Woods said. "Ive been practicing on Bermuda grass, and I grew the grass up at my house and it was Bermuda. But come out here and play rye, its totally different. And it showed. I was off. I probably shout have spent more time chipping over on the chipping green than I did. But thats the way it goes." His last act as tournament host is to present the trophy, and that could be anyone. Ten players were separated by only two shots going into the weekend, and there was only a nine-shot differential from first to last place. Former U.S. Open champion Justin Rose had 65 to get within three shots of the lead. ' ' '