Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara (33) of Slovakia celebrates with goalie Tim Thomas (30), as Tyler Seguin (19)and Brad Marchand (63) look on, after their 5-3 win over the Ottawa Senators in an NHL hockey game in Boston Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. The Bruins ended a three-game losing streak with the victory. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Ottawa scored the first goal of the game as it looked to go off of Adam McQuaid and into the net. Off the ensuing faceoff after the goal, Shawn Thornton challenged Zenon Konopka and they dropped the gloves and had an even fight. Boston would answer a little less than two minutes later with Milan Lucic scoring his 4th goal of the season, a power-play goal. Chara shot the puck at the net which produced a rebound and Lucic put the rebound up and over a sprawling Craig Anderson to tie the game. But Ottawa came right back, scoring sixteen seconds later to make it 2-1 Senators.
In the second period, Patrice Bergeron scored his 3rd goal of the season to tie the game 2-2. Later in the period, Chris Kelly scored his 3rd goal of the season to make it 3-2 Bruins.
In the third period, Jared Cowen scored his first NHL goal to tie the game up 3-3, as a screened Tim Thomas had no chance. Less than two minutes later, Johnny Boychuk scored his 1st goal of the season to make it 4-3 Bruins. 37 seconds later Daniel Paille scored on a breakaway, his 2nd goal of the season, from a nice chip pass from Shawn Thornton, to put the Bruins up 5-3. Yes Paille actually scored on a breakaway. Gregory Campbell got into a fight with Zack Smith and Smith looked to have the edge in that one. The Bruins held on and ended their winless streak.
Game notes
The Bruins led the game in shots 41-26 and faceoff wins 34-31. The Senators led the game in hits 16-15 and blocked shots 16-10.
The Bruins went 1 for 5 on the power-play while the Senators went 0 for 3.
Tim Thomas made 23 saves on 26 shots. Thomas is now 4-4 with a 2.25 GAA and a .924 save percentage.
Zdeno Chara had a big game, besides laying out players everywhere, had 2 assists, was +2, had 5 shots and 4 hits.
Chris Kelly had a goal and an assist.
Rich Peverley had 2 assists.
Dennis Seidenberg was -2 and is now a team-worst -6 so far this season (tied with Joe Corvo and David Krejci).
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 4-7 this season and sitting in last place in the division and tied for last place in the conference with the New York Islanders with 8 points (Bruins have played 2 more games than the Islanders). The Bruins next game is on Saturday at the Toronto Maple Leafs, a 7pm ET game. It's another long layoff for the Bruins, hopefully they don't lose this momentum they have going after tonight's win.
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