Bruins wake up in 3rd period and win

SUNRISE, FL - NOVEMBER 24: Mark Recchi #28 is congratulated by Zdeno Chara #33 of the Boston Bruins after he scored the third goal of the game against the Florida Panthers on November 24, 2010 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

In the first two periods tonight the Bruins looked out of it, they looked like they had no energy, and they didn't do much at all but let the Panthers control most of the play. Luckily it was only 1-0 Panthers after two periods. In the third period, the Bruins woke up right away. Eight seconds into the third period, Brad Marchand scored a shorthanded goal (his 3rd goal of the season) after goalie Tomas Vokoun misplayed a puck. Coach Julien switched up the lines a little bit, making lines with: Horton-Bergeron-Lucic, Ryder-Krejci-Wheeler, Recchi-Campbell-Caron, and Marchand-Seguin-Thornton. Veteran Mark Recchi stole the show. Almost three minutes after the Marchand goal, Recchi scored on a quick one-timer from a sweet pass from David Krejci behind the Panthers net. Later, Recchi scored a power-play goal with 4 minutes left in the period, which was the 1,500th point of his NHL career. Congrats go to Mark Recchi on that achievement. Recchi finished the night with two goals (his 3rd and 4th goals of the season). Krejci finished the night with two assists.

Tim Thomas started the game and made 31 saves on 32 shots. Thomas is now 11-1-1, with a 1.46 GAA, and a .955 save percentage. The Bruins out-shot the Panthers 37-32. The Panthers were better in the faceoff circle going 33-30.

The Bruins are now 12-6-2, with 26 points (in 20 games), which is 2nd place in the NorthEast division, behind Montreal (29 points in 22 games). The Bruins road record improves to 8-2-0.

The Bruins next game is on Friday at noon EST against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Some notes from the game:
-Again congrats to Mark Recchi on 1,500 points in his NHL career.

-Another slow start for the Bruins, they need to stop these kind of starts. If they do this against good teams they won't be able to come back like they did tonight.

-Milan Lucic needs to start hitting again. I don't remember seeing him hit anyone tonight. In fact the whole team needs to follow Mark Stuart in the hitting department, as he had one of the few hits I can really remember from the game.

-Tim Thomas again saved the Bruins butts making some nice saves to keep them in the game early.

-Near the end of the game Brad Marchand got hit from behind into the boards by Dmitry Kulikov. Marchand looked shaken up on the hit, hopefully he is ok. It was a really bad hit. It looked like Kulikov only got 2 minutes for it because Marchand got up after a minute.