Bruins hold off Devils, win 6th straight game

Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand, center, celebrates his goal against the New Jersey Devils with defenseman Zdeno Chara (33), of Slovakia, and center Patrice Bergeron, right, in the third period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. The Bruins won 4-3. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

The New Jersey Devils brought it tonight against the Bruins and Johan Hedberg had a great game but the Bruins were last to score and managed to keep the lead at the end of the game to win 4-3. Tim Thomas was in net for the Bruins and played well himself.

In the first period, no scoring happened.

In the second period, Brad Marchand took a bad dumb roughing penalty and with the Devils on the power-play, David Clarkson scored to give the Devils a 1-0 lead. Marchand would find himself on the bench for the rest of the period. Later in the period, Chris Kelly would capitalize on a Hedberg puck handling mistake as Gregory Campbell chipped the puck out in front of the net while Hedberg was out of the net and Kelly came rushing in to put the puck in the back of the net to tie the game. That was Kelly's 5th goal of the season.

At the start of the third period, the Bruins had a set play that worked beautifully, as it did in Toronto with Milan Lucic-Zdeno Chara. The Bruins won the faceoff, Zdeno Chara got the puck and sent Brad Marchand in on a breakaway and Marchand would bury it behind Hedberg to make it 2-1. That was Marchand's 6th goal of the season. Palmieri for the Devils tied the game up 2-2. Shawn Thornton would score his 1st goal of the season to give the Bruins the 3-2 lead. What a great play by Gregory Campbell and Jordan Caron to make that goal happen. Palmieri would score again to tie the game 3-3. Later, Benoit Pouliot scored his 2nd goal of the season to make it 4-3. The Bruins would hold on and win the game.

Game notes
The Bruins led the game in shots 37-30, faceoff wins 41-25 and hits 30-25. The Devils led the game in blocked shots 13-10.

Tim Thomas played in net and made 27 saves on 30 shots. Thomas is now 7-4 with a 2.09 GAA and a .927 save percentage.

Patrice Bergeron had another great game in the faceoff circle going 24-9.

Gregory Campbell had 2 assists and was +2.

Tyler Seguin's point streak ended tonight. He was +1 with 1 shot.

Brad Marchand led the Bruins in hits with 5.

Andrew Ference was again out of the lineup and Steven Kampfer played.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 9-7 this season with 18 points, which is still 4th place in the Northeast Division. The Bruins next game is on Thursday taking on the league worst Columbus Blue Jackets at 7pm ET.