Milan Lucic yells at Bryan Allen while being restrained by a linesman after Allen slashed at Lucic and then turtled down to the ice when Lucic challenged him to fight (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
In the first period, no scoring happened. The Bruins had two power-plays in the period but they couldn't do anything with them as they looked bad.
In the second period, Patrice Bergeron scored his 12th goal of the season making it 1-0 Bruins. Canes Patrick Dwyer later scored to tie the game 1-1.
In the third period, Milan Lucic scored his 16th goal of the season with a perfect shot beating Cam Ward upstairs far side, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead. Later, Justin Faulk scored a goal tying the game 2-2. Faulk took a high shot from the point and somehow it got redirected or tipped a little down and it went into the net. Jay Harrison later scored to make it 3-2 as Dennis Seidenberg tried to clear the puck up the middle (I'm not sure why as there was a Bruins forward nearby) and it went right to Harrison who fired the puck and the it went off of Seidenberg's skate and into the net. Eric Staal scored an empty-net goal with 1:02 left in the game to put it away. I'm surprised he didn't hit the glass and start screaming at fans again since he's playing at home. Maybe that NHL worst -21 has him not too excited. The Bruins weren't able to score at the end and the Canes won 4-2.
With 53 seconds left in the third period, I thought the Bruins were playing Montreal again. Hurricanes Bryan Allen, listed at 6'5" and 226lbs, did his best P.K. Subban impression near the end of the game as after a whistle he bumped with Milan Lucic, Lucic gave him a shove back, Allen then responds with a big time slash with his stick. Lucic then drops the gloves to fight him and Allen turtles and goes down to the ice. Wow, don't slash at a guy if you aren't going to back it up. I hope Kirk Muller didn't bring the Montreal back-down and turtle play to Carolina. Or maybe it was there all along, as we've seen Tim Gleason do the same before. Allen was wearing a huge visor covering most of his face, but he doesn't usually wear a visor, so maybe he has some type of injury.
Game notes
The Bruins led the game in shots 35-20 and faceoff wins 28-22. The Hurricanes led the game in hits 18-14 and blocked shots 16-15.
The Bruins went 0-for-2 on the power-play while the Hurricanes didn't get any power-plays.
Tim Thomas made 17 saves on 20 shots. Thomas is now 18-8-0 with a 1.99 GAA and a .937 save percentage.
Johnny Boychuk led the Bruins with 5 shots.
Gregory Campbell and Dennis Seidenberg were both a team-worst -2.
Seidenberg led the Bruins with 4 blocked shots.
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 28-12-1 with 57 points (1st place in Northeast Division and 2nd place in Eastern Conference. The Bruins next game is on Monday at the Florida Panthers at 7:30pm ET.
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