Bruins continue winning streak, beating Leafs 4-1

BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 03: Tuukka Rask #40 of the Boston Bruins stops a shot in the second period against the Toronto Maple Leafs on December 3, 2011 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Tonight was the second game of a home-and-home with the Toronto Maple Leafs and again the Bruins were able to win and shut down Phil Kessel. Kessel had 0 points, was -2, with 5 shots on net. Even with James Reimer returning into net for the Leafs they weren't able to stop the Bruins. The Lucic-Krejci-Horton again was playing great and wracked up points tonight.

In the first period, no scoring happened.

In the second period, David Krejci scored his 5th goal of the season. Bruins killer Mikhail Grabovski would score less than a minute later to tie the game 1-1. Later, Chris Kelly scored his 10th goal of the season to give the Bruins a 2-1 lead.

In the third period, Johnny Boychuk let a hard slap shot go and blew by Reimer for his 3rd goal of the season to make it 3-1 Bruins. Later, Nathan Horton scored his 7th goal of the season with a hard wrist shot to make it 4-1 Bruins.

Also in the third period, Joe Corvo got his first NHL career fighting major as he dropped the gloves with Joey Crabb with a rather uneventful fight. As you can tell, Corvo is in no way a fighter. Yea it takes real balls to take on a non-fighter. I guess the decision went to Crabb as it looked like some of his punches may have landed whereas Corvo's punches didn't reach Crabb. But that's the only thing Toronto won tonight.

Joey Crabb vs Joe Corvo

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net for the Bruins and made 21 saves on 22 shots. Rask is now 4-3-1 with a 2.09 GAA and a .924 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game in shots 30-22 and domained the faceoff circle 42-20. The Leafs led the game in hits 28-23 and blocked shots 15-12.

The Bruins went 0-for-2 on the power-play and the Leafs went 0-for-4.

Patrice Bergeron was great on faceoffs, going 19-4.

Nathan Horton had a goal and an assist, was +2 with 3 shots.

David Krejci had a goal and an assist, was +2 with 2 shots.

Milan Lucic had 2 assists, was +2 with 3 shots.

Zdeno Chara and Milan Lucic both had 4 hits to lead the Bruins.

Ex-Bruins Phil Kessel and Joe Colborne didn't do much tonight. Kessel had 0 points, was -2 with 5 shots. Colborne had 0 points, was -1 with 1 shot and 4 hits.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 16-7-1 with 33 points and 1st place in the Northeast Division. The Bruins next game is on Monday at the Pittsburgh Penguins at 7pm ET.