Bergeron reveals finger, moving past incident

VANCOUVER -- Speaking Thursday at the University of British Columbia, Bruins center Patrice Bergeron and coach Claude Julien offered no disagreement with the league's decision to not suspend Canucks forward Alexandre Burrows for biting Bergeron in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday.

"As far as I'm concerned, the league has made a decision on it, and we move on," Julien said. "I think what's more important for us is to prepare for the next game more than put all our attention on something that's already been ruled on. We're not the type of team that whines and cries about things like that. We just move on, and that's what we're going to do."

Bergeron expressed the same line of thinking.

"Like I said last night, it's the league's decision," Bergeron said. "I let them make the call and make the decision. It's there's, so I have nothing else to say about it, I guess."

After speaking with the press, Bergeron showed some media members his right index finger, which was bruised and had two cuts on the front, and one on the back. 

Burrows told Bergeron at the time of the incident, which occurred at the end of the first period, that he had no choice but to bite him because Bergeron's fingers were in his mouth, something the B's center laughed off Thursday.

"We were both face-washing each other, and I didn't mean to put my finger in his mouth," he said. "Why would I do that?"

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