BOSTON, MA - JANUARY 10: Shawn Thornton #22 of the Boston Bruins celebrates after he scored a penalty shot in the second period against the Winnipeg Jets on January 10, 2012 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
In the first period, Andrew Ladd scored to make it 1-0 Jets. Nathan Horton scored his 13th goal of the season, 40 seconds before the end of the period, to tie the game 1-1.
In the second period, Blake Wheeler scored to make it 2-1 Jets. Shawn Thornton was given a 2-minute illegal hit to the head penalty even though he never made contact with Chris Thorburn. When Thornton came out of the box to join the play he found himself with a loose puck and lots of open ice. As he went in on the breakaway his stick was whacked at and the ref called a penalty shot.
On the penalty shot, Thornton went in, faked a wrist shot with the back leg kick, then went to his backhand and got it up enough to go over Ondrej Pavelec pad and into the net to score his 4th goal of the season to tie the game 2-2.
A few minutes later, with the Bruins fourth line out on the ice, they had a good chance and Thornton tried to get at a rebound and ex-Bruin Mark Stuart took exception and knocked down Thornton. Thornton got up and pushed Stuart back and they dropped the gloves and had a spirited fight with mostly Thornton throwing punches and connecting on a few as Stuart went down to stop the fight. Later, Eric Fehr scored after a bad Joe Corvo turnover and Fehr's shot actually went off of Corvo's skate and got by Tuukka Rask, making it 3-2 Jets.
In the third period, Nathan Horton scored 8 seconds into the period, his 14th goal of the season and his 2nd goal of the game, to tie the game 3-3. A little less than three minutes later, Tyler Seguin scored his 17th goal of the season, to make it 4-3 Bruins. Later, Benoit Pouliot scored his 8th goal of the season, a power-play goal, making it 5-3 Bruins.
Game notes
The Bruins led the game in shots 42-32 and faceoff wins 39-23. The Jets led the game in hits 20-18 and blocked shots 19-10.
The Bruins went 1-for-3 on the power-play while the Jets went 0-for-3.
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 29 saves on 32 shots. Rask is now 10-4-1 with a 1.59 GAA and a .945 save percentage this season.
Patrice Bergeron had 2 assists and went 12-9 in the faceoff circle.
Nathan Horton had 2 goals on 3 shots. Milan Lucic and David Krejci both had 2 assists each. Krejci went 11-2 in the faceoff circle. Lucic and Dennis Seidenberg led the Bruins in hits with 3 apiece.
Johnny Boychuk led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots.
Shawn Thornton led the Bruins with 7 shots on net.
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 27-11-1 with 55 points (1st in Northeast Division and 2nd in Eastern Conference). The Bruins next game is on Thursday as the Bruins host the hated Montreal Canadiens in Boston at 7pm ET. The Habs are last place in the division and 3-7-0 in their last 10 games.
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