BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 07: Tuukka Rask #40 of the Boston Bruins stops a shot in the first period against the New York Islanders on November 7, 2011 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Here's the game's scoring summary:
In the first period, Benoit Pouliot scored his 1st goal of the season to make it 1-0. Jordan Caron threw the puck at the net into Evgeni Nabokov's feet and Nabokov looked like he was trying to find the puck in his feet and Pouliot jammed the puck into the net. After the goal, Adam McQuaid squared off with Matt Martin in a spirited fight. After the fight McQuaid had a cut on his chin with some blood. It was good to see McQuaid drop the gloves and he looks like he is fully back. That fight gave the Islanders energy as later Matt Moulson would tie the game 1-1. Later in the period with the Bruins on the power-play, Nathan Horton picked up a rebound to the right of Nabokov and moved near the slot area and fired the puck past Nabokov to make it 2-1 Bruins. It was Horton's 3rd goal of the season. 29 seconds later Tyler Seguin scored his 8th goal of the season from a beautiful pass from Patrice Bergeron making it a 3-1 Bruins lead. Nabokov was pulled after the goal and Al Montoya came in to play in net. Michael Grabner would later score to make it a 3-2 game.
In the second period, no scoring happened. Montoya made some big saves in the period though.
In the third period, Milan Lucic scored his 7th goal of the season making it 4-2. 49 seconds later, Horton scored his 4th goal of the season and 2nd goal of the game making it 5-2. With less than three minutes in the game, the Islanders had pulled their goalie and David Krejci scored his 3rd goal of the season, an empty net goal to end the scoring.
Game notes
Scary moment in the third period as Daniel Paille took a puck in the face from a Steve Staios slap shot. Paille would go down and was hurt as blood was seen on the ice. He was able to get up and go to the dressing room. Bruins coach Claude Julien on Paille's condition:
“He’s going to be seen by a specialist tonight,” Julien said. Obviously a puck hit him in the face, and in the nose area. We’ll probably know more tomorrow, once he’s seen by a specialist.”
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Another scary moment in the third period as Milan Lucic took a skate to his neck of the player he tripped up and luckily it only resulted in a small cut. Lucic was bleeding but he continued to play.
Congrats to Chris Kelly as he played in his 500th career NHL game Monday.
The Bruins led the game in shots 36-26, faceoff wins 29-20 and blocked shots 12-8. The Islanders led the game in hits 17-16. The Bruins went 1 for 1 on the power-play while the Islanders went 0 for 4.
Tuukka Rask made 24 saves on 26 shots and is now 1-3 with a 2.53 GAA and a .910 save percentage this season.
Nathan Horton finished the game with 2 goals and 1 assist, +1 and had 2 shots.
David Krejci finished the game with 1 goal and 2 assists, was +1 and had 4 shots.
Milan Lucic finished the game with 1 goal and 1 assist, was +1 and had 2 shots.
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 6-7 with 12 points taking them out of last place in the Eastern Conference but still last in the Northeast Division. The Bruins next game is on Thursday hosting the hot Edmonton Oilers at 7pm ET. I'm sure the media will be coming up with all kinds of Tyler Seguin vs Taylor Hall stories until the game.
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