Power play

In the bad old days, when the black and gold were cellar dwellers, the annual Boston Bruins Wives' Charity Carnival could be a chore. Not this year. The Bruins are the NHL's best team, so hockey diehards were out in force for yesterday's carnival benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Held at the TD Banknorth Garden, the festival featured a Rock Band 2 contest pitting fans versus players Mark Stuart (vocals), Blake Wheeler (drums), Milan Lucic (guitar), and Matt Lashoff (bass). (The B's band performed Pearl Jam's "Alive.") In addition, the Bruins boosters got to play P.J. Axelsson in ping-pong, David Krejci and Michael Ryder in knock hockey, or Dennis Wideman in Wii tennis. Others, including Zdeno Chara, Manny Fernandez, Phil Kessel, Marc Savard, and Tim Thomas signed autographs.

Veteran roots rocker Dennis Brennan got hitched yesterday, and Boston's own man in black officiated. That's right, former J. Geils singer Peter Wolf, who had a hit with "Love Stinks," performed his first wedding, marrying Brennan and longtime girlfriend Diann Wilde before a crowd of familiar faces at Arlington's flora restaurant. The throng of well-wishers included Brennan's ace bandmates Kevin Barry, Billy Beard, Duke Levine, and Andrew Mazzone, the groom's songwriting son Jake, Morphine's Dana Colley, O Positive's Dave Herlihy, Asa Brebner, Jimmy Ryan, Jennifer Kimball, David Johnston, Sean Staples, Andy Plaisted, Rick Berlin, Michael Dinallo, and Brian Templeton of the Radio Kings, bassist Marty Ballou, producer Tom Dube, bluesman Johnny Mac, drummer Dave Mattacks, Sarah Borges's manager Jeannie Smith, bookdealer Jon Strymish, and Tone-Cool Records CEO Richard "Rosy" Rosenblatt. Quipped Mazzone: "If something should happen to the people in this room today, there'll be a lot of open gigs around town."

If Gisele Bundchen has an engagement ring, she wasn't wearing it at Bricco the other night. Bundchen and her beau Tom Brady dined discreetly at the North End restaurant Friday with No. 12's teammate Larry Izzo and his date . . . Not so subtle was Celts captain Paul Pierce, who grabbed dinner at Sonsie over the weekend and feasted with the plain folks in the restaurant's dining room.

Globe correspondent Steve Morse contributed to this report. Names can be reached at names@globe.com or at 617-929-8253.