Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price, right, can't get his stick on the puck as he is out of position for a goal by Boston Bruins right wing Jordan Caron, left, in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Thursday Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
So back to the actual game, which for the most part, it didn't have the feeling of the heated Boston-Montreal rivalry we've been use to, except when P.K. Subban put a headshot (elbow) on David Krejci and Andrew Ference went after a turtling Subban. But other than that, not much else happened. Luckily Krejci seemed fine after the hit. The Bruins didn't play well as they gave chances to Montreal throughout the game but Tim Thomas made the saves. Even Claude Julien after the game had these words about the Bruins play:
"I can't say I've been pleased with the way we've been playing lately...certainly have to pick up our game."
"Tonight, I have to say, we didn't play well...they are a smaller team than we are, but they won more battles."
"I would like to see our team pick it up a little bit."
Source: Bruins NHL Twitter
In the first period, 1:23 into the game, Jordan Caron scored his 2nd goal of the season as he filled in for Zach Hamill. The puck took a "Bruins bounce" off a stantion and found its way to the front of the Montreal net, where Carey Price left to go behind the net to retrieve the puck, and Caron hustled to the net and put it in the empty net. It's good to see Caron get rewarded for his hard work and dedication as he's been getting called up and sent down every few days it seemed the past few weeks. Montreal came back in the second half of the period and put lots of pressure on the Bruins defense.
In the second period, no scoring happened.
In the third period, Milan Lucic scored his 15th goal of the season to make it 2-0. Later in the game, villain P.K. Subban put a big check on David Krejci, as his elbow got up and hit Krejci in the head. Andrew Ference, like we've seen so many times in the past, went right after Subban dropping the gloves and tried throwing punches at Subban but Subban ducked and turtled right away. No he didn't man up and take responsibility for his cheap hit. That's the Subban way. Out of all of that, Montreal gets a power-play, 2-minutes for Subban and 4-minutes for Ference. So you get to elbow a guy in the head, then turtle and get a power-play from it? Amazing. P.K. keep smiling, your team is in last place in the division, you just elbowed a guy in the head and you may be suspended, and you're laughing and smiling? Being in last place is so much fun for Subban I guess. How's that -2 tonight?
P.K. Subban elbows David Krejci in head, then turtles to Andrew Ference
Yannick Weber would score on the power-play and make it 2-1. The game would end 2-1 as Montreal couldn't score at the end of the game as they pulled their goalie while the Bruins had a power-play.
Game notes
Montreal led the game in shots 34-30, faceoff wins 26-22, hits 31-29 and blocked shots 14-13.
The Bruins went 0-for-5 on the power-play while Montreal went 1-for-2.
Tim Thomas made 33 saves on 34 shots. Thomas is now 18-7-0 with a 1.95 GAA and a .939 save percentage this season.
Benoit Pouliot with another dumb penalty, second game in a row now. You can't hit someone from behind.
Shawn Thornton led the Bruins with 4 hits.
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 28-11-1 with 57 points (1st place in Northeast division and 2nd place in Eastern Conference). The Bruins next game is on Saturday at the Carolina Hurricanes at 7pm ET.
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