Bruins beat Montreal, sweep season series

Boston Bruins Game 63: Montreal Canadiens @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on March 3, 2018.

Today the Bruins hosted the Montreal Canadiens and it was another wild game but with lots of chances and without all of the goals like in the Penguins-Bruins game. In the end though the Bruins would win the game in overtime as Bruins Brad Marchand scored the game-winning goal. The Bruins with this win have swept Montreal 4-0 this season.

Quick game summary
In the first period, at 9:16, Canadiens Brendan Gallagher scored, giving the Canadiens a 1-0 lead.

In the second period, no scoring happened.

In the third period, at 17:15, Bruins Jake DeBrusk scored his 13th goal of the season, a power-play goal, tying the game 1-1.

In overtime, at 2:06, Bruins Brad Marchand scored his 25th goal of the season, winning the game 2-1 for the Bruins.

Game notes
Anton Khudobin played in net and made 27 saves on 28 shots. Khudobin is now 14-4-4 with a 2.34 GAA and a .921 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game with a 63% faceoff percentage and in shots 50-28. The Canadiens led the game in hits 30-22 and blocked shots 18-6. The Bruins went 1-for-6 on the power-play while the Canadiens went 0-for-4.

Torey Krug led the Bruins with 10 shots. Noel Acciari led the Bruins with 5 hits. Torey Krug and Kevan Miller led the Bruins with 2 blocked shots each.

Patrice Bergeron, Tommy Wingels, Matt Grzelcyk and Adam McQuaid were scratched for the Bruins.

Three stars of the game
1) Bruins forward Brad Marchand
2) Bruins goalie Anton Khudobin
3) Canadiens goalie Antti Niemi

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 40-15-8 with 88 points this season and are in 2nd place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 7-3-0 in their last ten games and their home record is now 22-7-4 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Tuesday, when they host the Detroit Red Wings, at 7pm ET.