With both the Bruins / Canadiens and Pittsburgh / Tampa Bay games starting around the same time i was only able to take in the 1st period of this one live before having to switch to the other.
In that time, or should i say, the 1st period the Bruins had managed to forge a 2-1 lead.
Boychuck had given the Bruins a 1-0 lead only 3.31 into the game, slapping a puck past Price as he was trying to see around the screen of Bergeron infront of him.
It was 2-0 at 5.33 as Recchi got off a shot from between the circles that went in high on Price.
Yannick Weber got the Canadiens back into the game with a powerlay goal at 9.49, a wrist shot going glove side on Thomas after a lovely feed from Cammalleri circle to circle.
It was 5.50 into the 2nd period when Plekanec had the game tied up at 2 with a shorthanded goal. As the Bruins brought the puck up ice he made a takeaway move and skated clean in on Thomas, going low agaisnt the grain to beat the Bruins netminder.
A backhander at 9.44 in the 3rd from Kelly had the Bruins back into the lead. Peverley took the puck in over the blue line and dropped a pass that Ference skated onto and he took a wrist shot at net. The puck deflected down infront and right onto the backhand of Kelly who was on top of Price and put it in.
PK Subban blasted the Canadiens into overtime with just 1.57 left on the clock. It was a powerplay goal, Plekanec firing back from near the goal line out to the top of the circle for the defenceman to one time the puck high over Thomas's glove.
It was Nathan Horton though, 5.43 into the overtime period that was Boston's hero. Having already scored an overtime winner earlier in the series, this time he took a pass from Lucic around the Stanley Cup logo and drifted towards the wing as he fired a slapshot across Price, low gloveside, beating the netminders pads and sending the Bruins into round 2.
Absolutely gutted i couldn't watch this game in full with tonights matchups both overlapping each other. It didn't matter which way i worked it, one game would have always kept popping up the score in the other and after missing the last Pittsburgh / Tampa Bay game i was always destined to follow that tonight.
This looked like another fantastic game and as i predicted, it went to overtime. It was always going to be close to call but the Bruins have now given themselves a shot at the Flyers and a chance to face some demons from last years playoffs.
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