Final - OT
Desperate Bruins aim to get back into series
Apr 13, 2008 - 1:43 PM Montreal at Boston 7:00 pm EDT Eastern Conference quarterfinals Canadiens lead, 2-0BOSTON (Ticker) - The Boston Bruins must quickly forget a tough loss in order to avoid falling into a practically insurmountable hole.
The Bruins look to climb back into the series as they host the Montreal Canadiens in Game Three of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals on Sunday.
Boston, which has lost 13 straight meetings to its Northeast Division rival, rallied from two goals down and forced overtime on Saturday.
However, Alexei Kovalev scored a power-play goal 2:30 into the extra session to lead the Canadiens to a 3-2 victory and a commanding two-games-to-none lead.
"It's always great to get the first two wins at home but we haven't really done anything," Kovalev said. "We got the wins at home and now they play at home, but if we get one of their home games the pressure will be on them the most."
A key play in the game was a tripping penalty on Jeremy Reich, which led to Kovalev's man-advantage tally.
"(Andrei) Markov was skating up the ice and I tried to get the puck off of him and I don't know if I hit him or not," Reich said. "I guess the ref thought I did and called the penalty. Regardless of that we took too many penalties and that's the bottom line."
With the quick turnaround, the Bruins have not time to dwell on the loss.
"We need to bring the momentum from (Saturday's) game, what we did in the third period and get on with it," Bruins center David Krejci said.
Game Four is Tuesday in Boston.
- Scott Who are these Bruins anyway? Does anyone actually suffer through their games anymore?
Canadiens 1, Bruins 2 Final - OTApr 13 10:15 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL FINAL IN OT 1ST 2ND 3RD OT TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
MONTREAL 0 1 0 0 1
BOSTON 1 0 0 1 2 FINAL IN OT
GOAL SCORING:
1ST PRD: BOS - MILAN LUCIC 1 (MARC SAVARD, MARK STUART) 6:30
2ND PRD: MON - TOM KOSTOPOULOS 2 (BRYAN SMOLINSKI, STEVE BEGIN) 4:26
3RD PRD: OT: BOS - MARC SAVARD
Apr 13 10:05 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL MONTREAL 1
BOSTON 2
OT: BOS - MARC SAVARD 1 (DENNIS WIDEMAN, PETER SCHAEFER) 9:25
Canadiens 1, Bruins 2 End of OTApr 13 10:03 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL END OF THE 3RD GOING INTO OT
1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
MONTREAL 0 1 0 1
BOSTON 1 0 0 1 GOING INTO OT
GOAL SCORING:
1ST PRD: BOS - MILAN LUCIC 1 (MARC SAVARD, MARK STUART) 6:30
2ND PRD: MON - TOM KOSTOPOULOS 2 (BRYAN SMOLINSKI, STEVE BEGIN) 4:26
3RD PRD: NONE
SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- ---
Apr 13 9:30 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL END OF THE 2ND 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
MONTREAL 0 1 1
BOSTON 1 0 1 END OF THE 2ND
GOAL SCORING:
1ST PRD: BOS - MILAN LUCIC 1 (MARC SAVARD, MARK STUART) 6:30
2ND PRD: MON - TOM KOSTOPOULOS 2 (BRYAN SMOLINSKI, STEVE BEGIN) 4:26
SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
MON
Apr 13 8:37 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL MONTREAL 1
BOSTON 1
2ND PRD: MON - TOM KOSTOPOULOS 2 (BRYAN SMOLINSKI, STEVE BEGIN) 4:26
Canadiens 1, Bruins 1 2nd - 15:34Apr 13 8:13 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL END OF THE 1ST 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
MONTREAL 0 0
BOSTON 1 1 END OF THE 1ST
GOAL SCORING:
1ST PRD: BOS - MILAN LUCIC 1 (MARC SAVARD, MARK STUART) 6:30
SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
MON 7 7
BOS 10 10
GOALIES: MON - CAREY PRIC
Apr 13 7:46 PM - PLAYOFFS
NHL MONTREAL 0
BOSTON 1
1ST PRD: BOS - MILAN LUCIC 1 (MARC SAVARD, MARK STUART) 6:30
Canadiens 0, Bruins 1 1st - 13:30Apr 13 7:23 PM - dawger Common Bruins - play some clean hockey and stop complaining.
Canadiens vs. BruinsApr 13 6:06 PM
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