Bruins beat Leafs 6-3

Boston Bruins' Milan Lucic, center, celebrates scoring his team's fifth goal as Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jonas Gustavsson and defenseman Luke Schenn, right, look on during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Toronto on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)

The Bruins beat the Maple Leafs 6-3 in the first of a home-and-home series Wednesday night. It was a good back and forth game with a lot of scoring chances and hitting. With the Bruins win tonight against the Leafs, the Bruins finished November going 12-0-1, with zero regulation losses. Tonight's win made this month the Bruins' first month without a regulation loss since January of 1969. Wow, that is just amazing.

Here's the scoring summary of tonight's game.

In the first period, Bruins killer Mikhail Grabovski scored to make it 1-0. Later, Milan Lucic scored a power-play goal, his 9th goal of the season, to tie the game 1-1.

In the second period, David Krejci scored his 4th goal of the season to make it 2-1 Bruins. A little later, Joffrey Lupul scored to tie the game 2-2. Zdeno Chara scored his 5th goal of the season later in the period to give the Bruins a 3-2 lead.

In the third period, Benoit Pouliot scored his 3rd goal of the season to make it 4-2 Bruins. Leafs Matt Frattin scored to make it 4-3. Later, Milan Lucic scored his 10th goal of the season and second goal of the game to make it 5-3 Bruins. Brad Marchand would put the game away with 52 seconds left in the game, with an open net goal, his 9th goal of the season.

Game notes
The Bruins led the game in shots 39-37, faceoff wins 37-25 and hits 24-23. The Leafs led the game in blocked shots 19-18. The Bruins went 1-for-3 on the power-play while the Leafs went 1-for-2.

Tim Thomas played in net and made 34 saves on 37 shots. Thomas is now 12-4 with a 1.93 GAA and a .936 save percentage.

Benoit Pouliot's goal was the game-winner.

Zdeno Chara had 1 goal and 1 assist, was +2, had 6 shots (led Bruins) and 4 blocked shots (tied with Patrice Bergeron to lead the Bruins).

Nathan Horton had 2 assists, was +2 and had 2 shots.

David Krejci had 1 goal and 2 assists, was +2 and had 3 shots.

Milan Lucic had 2 goals, was +1 and had 3 shots.

Adam McQuaid led the Bruins in hits with 5.

Ex-Bruins not getting it done
Phil Kessel finished the game with 1 assist, a -3 and 3 shots. Now in his career against Boston, Kessel is -12 in 15 games with 2 goals and 5 assists.

Joe Colborne finished the game +1 with 1 hit and went 3-10 in faceoffs.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 15-7-1 and in 1st place in the Northeast Division. The Bruins next game is on Saturday against these same Toronto Maple Leafs in Boston at 7pm ET.