For the 2010 to 2011 season, justSports has been given a press pass to attend Boston Bruins home games. We will cover these games periodically throughout the year. Playing in front of several Boston Bruins old timers Thursday night, the Bruins' youngest player was the one who put on a show.

Eighteen-year-old rookie center Tyler Seguin scored his first career goal at home, helping lead the Bruins to a 2-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team that traded the Bruins the draft pick that they used to select Seguin in a trade for center Phil Kessel.

It was a difficult outing for Kessel, who was booed for much of the game. Typically a strong player in high-pressure situations, Kessel is now 0-4 against Boston since the trade.

"I could care less, doesn't matter to me one bit," Kessel said, shrugging his shoulders and scrunching up his face. "I just couldn't bury my chances. What can you do?"

The game got off to a quick start, with Bruins defender Mark Stuart picking up the first penalty of the game just 1 minute, 3 seconds into the game. Kessel had a great opportunity to score, but Bruins goalkeeper Tim Thomas slid across the face of the net to make the stop.

The teams battled back and forth for the rest of the first period, with Thomas and Toronto goalkeeper Jonas Gustavsson making save after save. Thomas, who had 20 saves on the night, stayed locked in until he heard the final siren.

"Of course there is some pressure, but you stay in your zone and don't focus on the clock." Thomas said. "I keep my head in the game and try to keep making the saves until I hear the final buzzer."

With just seconds left in the period, Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron took a blue-line pass from defender Zdeno Chara and one-timed it home for a goal. The power-play goal was Bergeron's first goal of the season and the 100th of his career.

"Those kind of little things mean a lot in the game," Bruins coach Claude Julien said."That goal was huge for us. At least we came in with a one-goal cushion, and it gave us some confidence heading out there in the second period."

The Bruins took advantage of that confidence, outplaying the Maple Leafs for most of the second period. They outshot Toronto 10-4 and spent most of the period in Toronto's zone.

Seguin scored his first goal at home at the 12:26 mark in the period. Seguin took a cross-ice pass from defender Dennis Seidenberg and shot the puck to the right of Gustavsson's stick. To add insult to injury, the stadium erupted into chants of "Thank you, Kessel," mocking the Toronto center.

"That's what our fans are all about," Julien said. "They're great fans; they support the people that are here, and they taunt the people that were here and are gone. So to me, those are perfect fans."

Seguin agreed, adding, "It just shows what supportive fans we have in Boston, and it was pretty funny to a lot of us."

For Seguin, the highlight of the night may have came after the game ended. Julien announced in his postgame press conference that "Peter [Chiarelli] asked me to advise [Tyler] Seguin; he will be staying with us. . I was just told before coming in here that he's here to stay this year."

For Thomas, it was his fifth straight win to open the season. For the year, the Bruins' only two losses have come with Tuukka Rask in the net. It was also Thomas' second shutout of the season. Despite his impressive play, Thomas gave much due credit to his solid defense.

"I feel obviously that I'm playing good," he said. "The team is playing very well in front of me. They're really helping me out with rebounds, screens, blocking in the screens. I mean, [Dennis] Seidenberg had as many saves as I did tonight, and that's making it very helpful."

Even the Leafs tipped their caps to Thomas' play. All-star defender and captain Dion Phaneuf said, "We definitely threw everything we had at them and, you know, we got beat. They played well. Give them credit. They didn't give up a whole lot, and like I said, when they did, their goalie was there to stop it."

Kessel agreed, adding ,"[Thomas] played well. I thought we could have had more shots on him, but he played well tonight."

The evening started at 7 p.m. with a presentation to honor the 92-year-old Milt Schmidt, who is the only person in Bruins franchise history to be a player, captain, coach and general manager.

As part of the ceremony, Schmidt was given two replica Stanley Cups to commemorate his two Stanley Cup winning seasons and was joined by Bruins greats Bobby Orr, John Bucyk, Cam Neely, Terry O'Reilly and Ray Bourque, all of whom helped raise his banner to the rafters.

"This night means to me about everything ... I can think of that goes along with the game of hockey, the greatest game in the world," Schmidt said in a pre-game press conference. "I'm just so happy, and I hope that the present Bruins are going to have a little bit of the success that I had."

The Bruins credited much of their victory to Schmidt.

"The best thing we could do for him, I think, was to get a win tonight, and so we were trying hard to get a good result," Thomas said. "I mean, just listening to the accomplishments that that man has had as part of the Bruins organization, and he deserved the win tonight."

On Saturday, the Bruins won their second in a row and sixth out of their last seven with a 4-0 win over the Ottawa Senators. The win was Thomas' sixth straight to start the season, the best start for a Bruins keeper since Tiny Thompson went 6-0-0 in his first six games of the 1937 to 1938 season.

The Bruins play again tomorrow night in Buffalo against the Buffalo Sabres at 7 p.m. They will then travel to face the Washington Capitals at 7 p.m.; followed by a home game against the St. Louis Blues on Saturday at 7 p.m.