"The holiday season is approaching. Don't expect Buffalo goaltender Ryan Miller and Boston forward Milan Lucic to exchange pleasantries.

Miller and Lucic were involved in a first-period collision that resulted in a charging penalty against Lucic. Miller wound up on his back while some of the Sabres players made a half-hearted attempt to go after Lucic. The Buffalo goaltender left the game after the second period with what the team termed an upper-body injury.

After the Bruins' 6-2 win at the TD Garden, the goaltender was brief with his statement. When asked about his injury, he turned the topic to Lucic.

"I'm not going to go into that. I just stuck around because I just wanted to say what a piece of [expletive] I think Lucic is," Miller said. "Fifty pounds on me and he runs me like that? It's unbelievable. Everyone in this city sees him as a big, tough, solid player. I respected him for how hard he played. That was gutless. Gutless piece of [expletive].""