Reilly Smith scores twice in Bruins 5-0 win over Senators

Game summary video of Senators @ Bruins on December 27, 2013.

After a somewhat slow first period for the Bruins, they turned it up in the second and exploded in the third period to beat the Senators 5-0 in the first game of a home-and-home series with the Senators.

Quick game summary
In the first period, no scoring happened.

In the second period, Bruins Jarome Iginla scored his 11th goal of the season, a power-play goal, making it 1-0 Bruins.

In the third period, 38 seconds into the period, Bruins David Krejci scored his 8th goal of the season, making it 2-0 Bruins. Later, Bruins Reilly Smith scored his 13th goal of the season, making it 3-0 Bruins. Less than eight minutes later, Bruins Reilly Smith scored his 14th goal of the season, making it 4-0 Bruins. Late in the game, Bruins Brad Marchand had a breakaway and scored his 9th goal of the season, a short-handed goal, making it 5-0 Bruins.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net for the Bruins and stopped all 33 shots he faced. Rask is now 20-8-2 with a 1.81 GAA and a .938 save percentage, along with 4 shutouts this season.

The Bruins led the game in shots 42-33, hits 19-17 and faceoff wins 34-30. The Senators led the game in blocked shots 16-14. The Bruins went 1-for-2 on the power-play while the Senators went 0-for-3.

Reilly Smith led the Bruins with 6 shots. Milan Lucic and Dennis Seidenberg led the Bruins with 4 hits each.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 26-10-2 with 54 points and in 1st place in the Atlantic Division. The next game for the Bruins is tomorrow at the Ottawa Senators at 7pm ET.