Bruins beat Blackhawks in shootout

Boston Bruins' Gregory Campbell (11) fights with Chicago Blackhawks' Jamal Mayers (22) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The Bruins were trailing 2-1 to the Blackhawks entering the third period but they would tie the game up and send it into overtime. Overtime would end without anyone scoring and then the shootout came. Tim Thomas would stop Jonathan Toews, Tyler Seguin would score by going five-hole on Corey Crawford, Thomas would stop Patrick Kane, Patrice Bergeron would lose the puck when he started his deke and not get a shot on net and Thomas would stop Patrick Sharp to win it for the Bruins.

In the first period, Bryan Bickell scored to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead. Bickell had a breakaway from stealing a bad Andrew Ference pass out of the defensive zone. Gregory Campbell dropped the gloves with Jamal Mayers in the first period as well. It was the first Bruins fighting major this season. Both guys looked to land a few but no real damage. I would give this one a draw.

In the second period, Chris Kelly scored a shorthanded goal, his 1st goal of the season, on a two-on-one from a beautiful pass by Rich Peverley to tie the game 1-1. Later, Patrick Kane scored to make it 2-1 Blackhawks.

In the third period, Nathan Horton scored his 1st goal of the season. The play was actually offside but the refs didn't catch it and the Bruins got lucky on that one. The whole play was created by Johnny Boychuk, who dumped the puck in, chased it down and retrieved it, came around the net and passed to Horton who was crashing the net and Horton put it behind Crawford.

Game notes
The Bruins led the game in shots 37-29, faceoff wins 36-34 and hits 40-34. Both teams went 0 for 3 on the power-play.

Tim Thomas played in net and made 27 saves on 29 shots. Thomas is now 2-2 with a 1.98 GAA and a .932 save percentage.

Matt Bartkowski played in place of Adam McQuaid and looked a little shaky at times in only 5:32 of ice time. He was also -1.

Patrice Bergeron went 17-11 in the faceoff circle.

The first line of Tyler Seguin-Milan Lucic-Nathan Horton looked really good tonight as they had many scoring chances.

Dennis Seidenberg led the Bruins in shots with 5.

Zdeno Chara and Seidenberg both had 5 blocked shots to lead the Bruins.

Johnny Boychuk led the Bruins in hits with 6.

Tonight's victory gives Claude Julien his 300th NHL career victory.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 2-3 this season. The Bruins next game is on Tuesday at 7pm ET, hosting the Carolina Hurricanes in Boston.