Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas (30) makes a stick save on a shot by Philadelphia Flyers' Wayne Simmonds (17) during an overtime shootout in an NHL hockey game on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in Philadelphia. The Bruins won 6-5. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek)
In the first period, Patrice Bergeron scored his 15th goal of the season 50 seconds into the game making it 1-0 Bruins. Off a faceoff, Milan Lucic and Tom Sestito dropped the gloves and had a good fight with Lucic landing some big punches. Watch the fight here. This was most likely some payback for Lucic's hit on Zac Rinaldo in their last game. The Flyers would come back less than two minutes after the Bruins goal as a Max Talbot attempted pass went off of Dennis Seidenberg and between Tim Thomas' legs to tie the game. Later on the power-play, Tyler Seguin scored his 18th goal of the season to make it 2-1 Bruins. Later, Brayden Schenn laid out Steven Kampfer with a big hit and Chris Kelly dropped the gloves and they fought. Schenn ended up getting bloodied from the fight. Watch the fight here. Milan Lucic later scored his 17th goal of the season making it 3-1 Bruins.
In the second period, Nathan Horton was hit with a blindside hit by Tom Sestito. Horton got up right away and went at Sestito with everyone else joining in a big scrum. Horton would not return to the game. Sestito was suspended in the preseason for a bad hit so he may be suspended again for another bad hit. Video down below of this hit.
Flyers Scott Hartnell scored a power-play goal making it now a 3-2 Bruins lead. Shawn Thornton and Jody Shelley dropped the gloves and had a good spirited fight with both guys trading punches. This looked like a good draw. Watch the fight here. Hartnell would score again to tie the game 3-3. The Flyers would take the lead 4-3 with Hartnell scoring his 3rd goal of the game.
In the third period, 1:19 into the period, David Krejci scored his 11th goal of the season to tie the game 4-4. Later, Gregory Campbell scored his 6th goal of the season, making it 5-4 Bruins. Later, Scott Hartnell would hit Chris Kelly with a shoulder-on-shoulder blindside hit which Shawn Thornton didn't like and Hartnell quickly turtled as Thornton went after him. Talbot would score later to tie the game 5-5.
In overtime no scoring happened so it went to a shootout.
In the shootout: Flyers Matt Read didn't score, Bruins David Krejci scored, Claude Giroux scored, Tyler Seguin scored and Tim Thomas stopped Wayne Simmonds to win the game for the Bruins.
Video with 3 Flyers high hits, Tom Sestito coming high at Steven Kampfer, Tom Sestito's high hit on Nathan Horton, and Scott Hartnell's hit on Chris Kelly
Game notes
The Bruins led the game in faceoff wins 43-36. The Flyers led the game in shots 38-37, hits 39-24 and blocked shots 19-18.
The Bruins went 1-for-3 on the power-play while the Flyers went 3-for-8.
Tim Thomas made 33 saves on 38 shots. Thomas is now 20-9-0 with a 2.12 GAA and a .933 save percentage.
Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, Milan Lucic and Tyler Seguin all had 1 goal and 1 assist in the game.
Milan Lucic got a Gordie Howe hat trick, goal, assist and a fight.
Zdeno Chara led the Bruins in shots with 9.
Chara and Dennis Seidenberg both had 4 blocked shots to lead the Bruins.
Benoit Pouliot led the Bruins with 4 hits.
Rich Peverley went 10-1 in the faceoff circle.
Steven Kampfer only had 3:15 of ice time as I don't think he got a shift after the big hit he took in the first period.
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 31-13-2 with 64 points (1st in Northeast Division and tied with the New York Rangers with 64 points). The Bruins next game is on Tuesday at the Washington Capitals at 7pm ET. Bruins fans will get to see "All-Star" and former Bruin Dennis Wideman but Alex Ovechkin may be suspended for a hit in today's Capitals game. We'll have to wait and see. Andrew Ference won't be back until his suspension ends which will be in February.
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