Thomas again saves Bruins and win in overtime

Boston Bruins right wing Mark Recchi, left, tips the puck past Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, right, to score the game-winning goal during overtime of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. The Bruins beat the Sabres 3-2.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tonight was a weird night with a few weird goals. The Sabres came out strong controlling most of the play in the first period and keeping the Bruins in their defensive zone. The Bruins did manage to score first with Milan Lucic scoring his 13th goal of the season. Lucic somehow managed to get the puck in the net short side on Miller and it barely crossed the goal line for a goal. Not too long after the goal, ex-Bruin Steve Montador went after Johnny Boychuk for a hit he layed on Jason Pominville (who came back from a concussion not too long ago) and they dropped the gloves. Montador did his usual wrestling tie up move while Boychuk tried to get free to swing away, and eventually Boychuk was able to get in some good uppercuts on Montador. If you're Montador, I know you want to stick up for your teammate, but why drop the gloves and wrestle and not throw punches? Wrestling with someone's jersey I don't think will inspire your teammates.

In the second period, the Sabres came back to tie it up 1-1 with Luke Adam scoring his 1st NHL goal. Doesn't it seem that lots of players score their 1st NHL goal against the Bruins or is it just me?

In the third period, Bruins killer Thomas Vanek scored from behind the net as he threw the puck at the net and it somehow bounced in between Thomas' armpit area, another weird goal. Later in the third period, Christmas came early for Nathan Horton as Mike Weber personally gift wrapped and sent a puck right on the tape of Horton's stick in front of Ryan Miller and Horton fired it into the net to tie the game, his 10th goal of the season.

The game went into overtime. 1:46 into OT Marc Savard was high sticked and Sabres Luke Adam got a double minor high-sticking penalty. During the power-play Dennis Seidenberg took a shot from the point and Mark Recchi tipped it into the net. Everyone heard the ding as it happened quickly but the referee didn't call it a goal. When play finally stopped they reviewed it and they deemed it a goal as the puck was definitely tipped into the net by Recchi. That was Recchi's 6th goal of the season.

Tim Thomas was again the Bruins best player tonight. He made another highlight save, this time robbing Thomas Vanek point blank. Thomas is now 14-2-2, with a 1.49 GAA, and a .955 save percentage. The Bruins led the game in shots 36-30. The Bruins also led in faceoff wins 31-25.

The Bruins next game is on Thursday against the struggling New York Islanders.

Some notes about tonight's game:
-The Bruins had another slow start despite scoring first.

-The Bruins hitting game wasn't there for much of the game. The game seemed slow and uneventful to me until overtime kicked in.

-Johnny Boychuk's fight was the first fight for him this season.

-Defenseman Mark Stuart didn't come back to the game after the first period. After the game, Claude Julien said that Stuart suffered an upper body injury and will be re-evaluated tomorrow.

-Tonight's game was Dennis Seidenberg's 400th career NHL game.

-Sabres goalie Ryan Miller complained to the referees about the overtime winner, as he thought Mark Recchi interfered with him somehow even though no one else saw it.