Bruins Nearly Sing the Blues
Last night, the St. Louis Blues visited the Gardens to clash with the Bruins. The Blues gave Boston all they could handle and needed a late man advantage goal to come away with a 6-5 victory.
The much maligned Mats Sundin opened the scoring a minute into this one. Sundin, who started the year playing centre, was moved to the wing on the second line to play with Ziggy Palffy and Steve Larmer. "Mats hasn't played up to his potential yet in his career, but he's been brought along slowly," said coach Jocelyn Guevremont. "The move to the wing has been good for him though and you are starting to see the production come and him realize the potential that had him as one of the top picks in his draft year."
After a single goal in the first, the second period was a scorefest with both teams bulging twine 4 times. Wayne Presley, Sundin, with his second of the game, Dmitri Mironov, and Steve Larmer scored for Boston while Joey Juneau, with a pair, Bryan Fogarty, and Nevin Markwart scored for the Blues. Shots were 15-9 in favor of St. Louis in the period.
Bryan Fogarty scored his second of the game at the midpoint of the third period to tie this one up, but with Michel Petit in the penalty box Owen Nolan scored his 34th of the season to give Boston the lead at 6-5. Hasek came into the game in relief and held the fort to preserve the win for Boston. Some tense moments for sure, but ultimately Boston's stars were the difference in this one.
Boston travels to Pittsburgh tomorrow night for a big one against Pittsburgh in a proverbial 4 point game.
GAME STARS:
3. Bill Houlder 2. Joey Juneau 1. Mats Sundin
GAME NOTES:
-The Bruin PP went 1 for 6 and the PK was 3 for 3 -Sundin fired a season high 9 shots on net for Boston, netting 2 goals
THE SANDWICH REPORT:
The Sandwich Bruins hosted Kansas City and were embarrassed once again, this time 15-1. Veteran Dave Hannan scored the lone goal and Andrei Trefilov was terrible in net for Sandwich. Donny Brook |