Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins

Musings and In-Game Scribbles playoffs

My English is as good as yours, I just write these in a stream-of-consciousness mode that I insist excuses me from small things like rules of grammar or general etiquette. Let’s call it conversational English, hopped up on beans. You know what kind of beans (no, Carl Mellesmoen, not the magic ones).

#6 Montreal Canadiens (44-30-8)
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#3 Boston Bruins (46-25-11)

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Round One – Playoffs
Game Seven (score posted following scribbles)
Series tied 3-3

Missed it? Musings capture the game in writing. A written transcript typed during the game, posted and edited about thirty minutes afterward. Based on the RDS French telecast of the Montreal Canadiens game, Musings take about 20 minutes to read. More detailed than an article, fresher than a looping highlight and good with morning coffee. Or late-night chocolate. A unique way to re-experience the game.

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Boston Garden.  The New Garden.

Military nonsense precedes this game seven yet again.  Doughy men with rifles and flags and the mustachioed Rene Rancourt.

Benoit Pouliot and David Desharnais are not in the lineup.  Defenceman James Wisniewski is back.

Price’s hair is getting a bit 1985 floppy. And Cammalleri is going bald.

Rancourt’s suit is a bit large.  It’s a tuxedo.

PK Subban bounces on his skates rapidly, helmetless (as are they all) and the most creative defenceman in the NHL may be the difference tonight.

We should trade for Ryder.

Lucic avoided suspension for his hit on well-liked family man Jaroslav Spacek last night.  And just why are we seeing a game seven just one night removed from game six, anyway?

Oh why, oh why is this league run by … you know.

Carey Price and Tim Thomas are the goalies.  And it feels like a late-season regular time match.  But it isn’t.

This is Montreal’s eighth game seven against Boston.  Most in sports history for two teams.

First Period

Habs win the draw, Gomez.

Wisniewski and Hamrlik share the puck and the Canadiens are in.  One puck swifts across the slot.  Bounces and to the left point where Hamrlik fires it on Thomas.  Stopped and held for the faceoff.

Canadiens win the draw.  To the point for Hamrlik again.  And it’s out.

Bergeron.  Retains.  To Seidenberg on the right point.  Shot.  Wrister, low.  Whistle.

Plekanec against Peverley to Price’s left.

Gill and Subban low.  Gill shovels once.  Bounce-back.  Twice.   And it nearly leaves.  But the defence must work under the end line again.  Gill again.

It’s out.

Plekanec.  Splits two and skates to the corner.  NO possession follows.

Halpern, Darche and Eller.

Gill steps to the puck backhanded to sweep it back.  Boston resumes control.  Fenced and they reset.

Kaberle weaves to the blue and fires it into Montreal ice off the side boards.  Under the end line.  Pass goes through vertically and misses everyone.  Boston must reset.

Pace is cautious.  Few risks.

Sopel digs it out.  On the opposite side, Boston enters.  Bergeron.  Thornton.  Bumps Sopel.  Strips it.

Now under the end line.  Pass to the muzzle.  Stopped.  We resume.

Boychuk shoots.  Price is screened.  Boston scores.

Marchand passed to the blue for the slapshot.

Boston 1, Montreal 0

Hamrlik low.  Two and two.  Plekanec.  Hamrlik is on his seat.  Puck is under him.  Whistle.

Let the sweating begin.

Faceoff to Price’s right.

Plekanec and Krejci.  Bouncer.  Off several sticks.  Finally an angled slot shot.  Price extends the glove.

Defensive units switch up.

Plekanec dumps it down backhanded.

Bruins exit from behind their net.

Darche.  Backhands it down.   Eller.  Short backhander.  Turnover.

Ryder sends it down.  Follows.  Wisniewski.  Loses the disc.  Ryder emerges.  Shot.  Price.

Faceoff.

Sopel also made a mistake on the shift.

Subban and Gill low.  Plekanec line.  Around the Montreal boards.  Boston is focused and aggressive to the puck.

To the slot.  Doctor Recchi.  Scores.

Fill the net Bruins, fill the net.

Boston 2, Montreal 0

The spotlight, the crowd and the low horn.  Martin calls a timeout.

Martin talks to his team.  Moen nods near the end.

Price was beaten over the right pad.  Little movement.

Brunet says Boston is showing good speed and they’re hitting Montreal’s defencemen.

Turnover on entry.  Plekanec’ pass was ff.  Boston is in again.

Seidenberg fires a long shot.  Wide.  Team is out of sorts.  A blanker. Right from the slot.  Stays out.

Whistle on the boards.

Faceoff to Price’s left.

But a break first.  Hat change.  Go with the red.  Dump the 100th anniversary.

Kostitsyn is wiping the lower part of his helmet vigourously on the bench.

It’s down to one shift at a time.

Darche deep right.  Eller.  Darche supports.  Halpern joins and all three are under the end line.  Eller retains, retains and finally loses it.  Kept in on the blue.  Wild shot.  Disc to the low slot.  Sticks turn and waists work.  But no stick can bat the puck.

White deep left.  Pyatt.  Support but no puck.

Long Boston puck.  Icing.

Twelve minutes.

Gomez line.

Short passes begin.

Boston is now out of sorts momentarily.

Ryder and Plekanec collide.  Whistle.  For what.

They say hooking.  I say it’s a poor call.

Montreal power.  Plekanec.

Cammalleri’s pass from the low circle is onto a Boston stick.  Habs retain.  Wisniewski on the diamond point.  Subban up on the left.  They work the perimeter.  A long shot.  Subban.  Not enough traffic.  Thomas retains.

Faceoff to his left.

Cammalleri takes the faceoff.  Bergeron is pushed out.  Marchand.  Habs win it.  Cycling.  Turnover.  Bergeron fires it down.  Price janitors it forward.  Habs set up.

The perimeter.  Gionta in the high slot.  Knocked down.  Coverage was there.

Second wave.  Gomez.  Kostitsyn.

Hamrlik.  Down low.  Across.  Weber.  Finds the roof.

Of the net.  Over Thomas’ left shoulder from the circle dot.

Cammalleri sent it across.

Boston 2, Montreal 1

Halpern line.  Fired into Montreal ice.  Gill.  Subban.  Subban has it.  Light booing.  Pass up the left.  Darche.  Tentative shot.  Easy knees down save for Thomas.  Holds on.

Weber advanced.  Held it.  Aimed.  And shot.  Good accuracy and the confidence in his shot to allow a pause.

Deep left faceoff.  Eller loses it.

Subban retrieves.

Puck hits the netting above the glass.

Eller goes to the bench.  Price’s eyes narrow.

Nine seventeen.

Failed Boston dump-in results in a three on two.  Cammalleri fires a whizzer.  Wrister high.

Sopel advances to keep it deep.  Pass or a shot from the Bucyk area.  Thomas has it.

Boston fans are a loyal and suitless lot.  This isn’t the ACC.  Real fans dwell in the lower bowl in this rink.  They watch with concern, concentration and insight.

Gionta.   Right wing pass. Offwing shot.  Out of play, Gomez.  And to the bench.

White takes the draw against Gregory Campbell.

Boston and Montreal tangle at a blue entry point.  It’s out.

Peverley tries a work-around.  Sopel interrupts.  To Eller.  Under the end line.  Darche.  To the blue.  Sopel.  Across.  Spacek’s shot.   Off legs.

Ryder skates down the left, somewhat slowly.  Turns and is bumped off the puck.

Seven minutes.

Seidenberg and Chara combine under the endline.  Lead pass is a turnover.  Kostitsyn carries.  Avoids one.  A second.  Follows the disc behind the net and bumps Chara hard.  Chara is standing, of course.  Puck is out and in Boston sticks.

Marchand.  Right side.  Slows.  Looks to lead his man in the low slot.  No.  Now Marchand moves to the net with the disc and Hamrlik takes it off him.  Adroit.

Action swirls to the middle.  And the puck escapes the surface.

Montreal have the last six shots, we are informed.

White loses the draw.  Or the equivalent.  Montreal is in anyway.  Hash exit.  Paille for Thornton, long diagonal.

Under the end line.  Delayed call against Boston.

Three Habs and two Bruins.

Price leaves for the sixth attacker.  Cammalleri busts down the middle.  Puck bounces out.  Subban.  Puck is touched.  Whistle.

Brunet says that the Bruins were undisciplined.  Tabs Ryder.  And Thornton.  Elbowing.  Shawn Thornton.  Doesn’t believe in this one.

He never does.  Mister innocent.

After a false start the puck is dropped.  Plekanec against Bergeron.

Cammalleri is also on this wave.  Subban and Wisniewski low.  Gionta is the right winger.

Boston stops it at centre ice.  Dumped in.  Lost on the hash opposite, quickly.  Montreal retrieves.

Bruins circle and form a three-man line with one lead scout.  It works well.  Subban is down under his end line.  Crowd loves it.

Montreal rush.  Gomez to the net.  Darche around the net.  Puck to the low slot.  Thomas smothers it.

Kostitsyn’s pass was nearly perfect.   But the Gomez backhand was a bumped one.

Whistle.

Bergeron stays on the ice.   Gomez, too.  Subban is on the bench.

Just over thirty.  Kostitsyn.  Right side.  Shot.  Goes high.

Faceoff to Thomas’ left.  Darche goes to the corner and whips it to the blue.  Too hard and no receivers.  Habs chase it down.

Chara interrupts the next entry.  Fires it down.  Penalty against Montreal.

Kostitsyn retaliated against Campbell.  High stick.  This period has not been well-called.

Fours for ten seconds or so.  Thornton is back.

Chara.  One shot.  To the corner.  Moen is out quite far.   Price reaches for a puck that misses the net to his left.

Under the end line.  Subban loses.  Separates one man.  The second gets to it.  Pass to the point escapes the left point.

Fifty-seven seconds in the period. One less in the penalty.

Bruins work the boards.

Moen and Halpern up top.

Ryder tries a float in shot.  Krejci.  Good shot-pass from the circle.  Deflected.  Nine seconds.   Puck is in the corner.  Boychuk.  Slithering backward.  Clock ticks.  He fires.  Hits a player.  And the Canadiens survive.

Siren.

Shots are tied 9-9.

First Intermission
Boston 2, Montreal 1

What’s your game?

Second Period
Boston 2, Montreal 1

Price’s arms are ridiculously huge.  What’s he wearing there.

Gomez line.  To the side boards in the neutral zone.

Gionta is robbed after a Recchi turnover.  Thomas.  Across. Shot came slow but it was an open net.

Wisniewski advances.  Right side.  Bruins clump and recover.

A Subban pass is intercepted at the blue line and a very long Boston possession follows.

On the boards, Gill finally dig-scythes the puck out.

Hamrlik advances.  One arm stick swing.  Avoids the huge check.  Eller has it under the end line.  Doesn’t look and gives it away, a pass to the slot.

Canadiens resume.  Moen.  Left side.  Shot.  Recovers the rebound.  And he, too, gives it away with a no-look slot pass.

What in Murphy.

Plekanec, Montreal controlling.  This slot pass is accurate.  Kostitsyn can’t bang it home.

Puck stays in.  Ference finally pushes it out.  Recchi and Marchand.  To the blue.  Blast.  Price stops it.

Pace increases.  Good hockey from both.

Eller whams Chara down.  Penalty.  Very bad penalty says Brunet.   Crosscheck.

Four and a half minutes elapsed, or so.

Boston power.

Plekanec and Moen.  Krejci, Lucic, Ryder, Boychuk and Kaberle, says Houde.

One clear.  Thomas nearly and then does give it away.  Moen emerges.  Fires.  Too sharp an angle.

Halpern blocks flow on the hash.  Clears.  Boston enters offside.  Lucic preceded.

Julien handwashes his face.  Brunet calls it a very bad play by Lucic.

Plekanec escapes.  Accelerates.  He’s alone.   Waits.   Fires it from the low slot.  Big tink.  Doctor Recchi mishandled it in the neutral zone.  Brunet blames nervousness.

The Doctor?  Nervous?  I think not.  Careless, maybe.

Montreal 2, Boston 2

Boston resumes their power-play.

Another offside entry.  Listen to the crowd, yells Houde.  Lucic leaves the ice.  Julien maintains his usual demeanour.  Calm.

Carey Price under his end line.  What do you think?

Too casual.  Habs survive it.

Thirteen.

Boston is deep left.

Aren’t you glad Gretzky isn’t on the ice?  Certain doom.

Penalty has expired.

Action has slowed.  Boston is chasing and in a mild form of panic.  Halpern snakes in.  Through.  A pass back.  Lost in the skates.  And moments later a long shot goes up and out of play.

Halpern line.  Dumped down.  And lost.  Horton fires it ahead.  Right to Gill.

Krejci has the grenade on his stick.  A Hab flails and falls, Price is across late.  And it’s high.  Out of play.  Subban was across.

Certain goal missed.  Price was beaten says Brunet.

Price is off his game this period.

He hesitates as Marchand, Recchi and a third close to the net.  Coverage is there.  Marchand keeps a cool head and sends the death disc across.  But somehow it fails.

Eleven.

Boston wins the draw.

Kostitsyn.  With Cammalleri.

Under the end line, Plekanec jams it against two and Kostitsyn emerges.  His pass is wasted.

Habs retrieve.  But it’s lost in the neutral zone.

Wisniewski.  For Moen.  Blocked by Kelly.  Picked up by Montreal.  Forced back. Sopel.  To Spacek.  Long on the right wing for Moen.  Too far.  Both Bruins are back.

Ryder tries his slow long-stick moves.  Stripped in the slot.

And the puck is out of play on the Boston end moments later.

Martin’s hair is nearly plastered back and he shakes his head and purses his lips.

Eller.  Finds Darche.  To Halpern.  The pass to the slot for Darche.  But the forward is turned around.

Plekanec.  Left side.  Flanked.  One Bruin.  Plekanec winds up and blasts.   Wide.

Price makes a doorstep stop.

Eight minutes.

Habs reset.

Gomez line.  Gomez.  Looking.  From the end line.  Off a Bruin stick.  Reentry on the right.  On the hash.  They joust.

It’s out.

Peverley down the left.  One man with him.  Peverley with flair.  Quick hands.  Nearly beats two men.  Kept to the perimeter.

Pace intensifies.

Price with a save.  Campbell pressuring.

Six and a half.

Boychuk by his net.

One pass.  To the end line.  Price exits.  Slides backward as a Hab recovers.

On the other end.  A shot on Thomas.  Muzzle save.

Eller loses the draw deep.  Darche takes the disc behind the end line.  Moments.  But gone.

Montreal exits from their end.  Bad change.  Halpern is open on the right.  Eller finds him.  Halpern.  Alone.  Fires it into Thomas.  And the goalie retains it.

We resume.

Plekanec nearly takes one away on the Boston blue, churning.  Stopped.

Kostitsyn turnover on a fancy reach-back.  Results in a long Boston possession and a long shot.   Save.

Houde admonishes Kostitsyn.

Kostitsyn knows it and hangs his head on the bench.  It was well-thought but more of a regular season play than a game seven recommendation.

Faceoff is won by Boston.  And so it continues.  Long shot.  Price makes the tough save.

Gionta leads the rush.  Gomez in the slot.  Lines it up.  And it’s off a leg.  What a chance.  Four Bruins low but the puck found the stick.

Stoppage.

Brunet compliments Gomez and adds that he played a spirited game in Montreal last night.

Under four.  Subban gives his body for the puck.  But it’s back in.

Gill blocks a man on the boards, Plekanec advances to help.  Finally the puck is out.

Three minutes.

Long Cammalleri shot from centre ice.  Thomas sweeps it away.

Doctor Recchi explodes over the middle.  But the gap closes quickly.  And another Thomas stop follows after a Montreal entry.

Subban leads all players in time on ice in these NHL playoffs.

Subban loses the puck and nearly gives up the scoring chance.  Falls.  Flails the puck away as Price watches two feet away.

Another stoppage.

I can’t create either.

Boston penalty.

Shoved Halpern into the stanchion.  Boychuk.  Seemed an ordinary check.  But the replay may show otherwise.  Halpern went head first.  From the side.  Perpendicular, unlike the Pacioretty hit.

Montreal power.

One Subban blast.  One Thomas stretch save.  The glove.

Subban high sticks a puck and the whistle goes.  He’s not happy.  Muller yells something to him.

We resume.

Near giveaway by Wisniewski.  Recovers, falls and corrects his mistake with a sweeping stick in the neutral zone.

Re-entry.  One Wisniewksi blast.  Wild and high.

Siren goes.

Montreal led on shots 12-7.  They lead 21-16

Is this goodbye, Boston?

Second Intermission
Boston 2, Montreal 2

Mario can’t believe that Kostitsyn didn’t show up for this game.  Joel hopes the team will sit him down for most of the third.

Joel repeats that the Bruins don’t deserve a win tonight.  Cites the turnovers.  The panicked play.  And such.

Lightning and Penguins are tied 0-0 after one.  Kovalev has three of the Penguins’ fifteen shots.  A flash-pad save by Fleury is shown.  A near thing off a skate on a goalward pass, cross-ice.

Weber’s brand is a calm one.

Third Period
Montreal 2, Boston 2

Numbers, numbers, numbers.

Plekanec line.  Skating relieves stress.

Bergeron faces him.

Bergeron wins the draw.  Sent down.  Cammalleri nearly comes up with it.  Penalty expires as the Canadiens control briefly.  Wisniewksi.  One last blast.  And then he’s back to work behind the Montreal net.

Hamrlik.  Long pass.  Down the left.

Gionta, Gomez and Moen.

Peverley down the left, a man hanging off him.  Around the net.  To the point.  Shot.  Save low.

Eller line.  Won by Eller.  Gill, Subban and Halpern work it around and into Boston ice.  Eller in the middle.  Turnover.  Good coverage.

Subban for Eller.  Eller with a high, whistling wrister that I didn’t know he had.  Through the defender’s legs.  Thomas got an elbow on it.  Strictly seventies.

Chara across the blue.  Fires.  Price drops to close.

Faceoff to Price’s right.

Halpern.  In that low style.

Lucic is surrounded after Chara leaves the puck for him.  It’s too much time alone on the ice for a fan but the lanes were covered.  But now the Bruins control like it’s a power-play.

Eight seconds.  It’s out.

Bruins reset.  Krejci on the right side.  Price pushes out.  And the puck is stopped.  The team is moving in sync.

Quick stoppage.

Lucic spits onto the ice from the bench.

Deep left.  Gomez wins it.  Hamrlik.  Across.  Shot down.  Blocked.  Finger Ference ends the threat.  Neutral zone.  Gionta in on the right.  Shot.  Rebound.  Moen is nearby.

Recchi in the muzzle.  Price is fallen.  It’s a goal.  But Wisniewksi is across.  It stays out.  Out.

Sixteen.

Action slows.  Montreal stays in a trapezoid of sorts.  Bruins aren’t allowed in.  Some long shots.  Some board work.  Canadiens are playing the system better.

Plekanec.  Waits. Right side.  To Kostitsyn.  A little late.  And Kostitsyn still gets the shot.  The puck is loose and Thomas doesn’t see it.

Post saved Price on that chance.  And Wisniewksi got the man out of the way.  Both were instrumental.

Fourteen.

Peverley.  Crease pass. Sopel touches it.  Price fall-grabs.  Whistle.

I can’t describe.  I can’t compare.  There’s no hope for a metaphor to save the planet.  Send in the jets.

And Phoenix deserves to keep its team.

Roloson is on fire says Houde.  Lightning lead one, nothing.

None of the players inspire confidence.  Maybe one.  But the team is turning the puck over, or did in the first two.  This period might be something a little different.

Bruins are playing a clean brand.

Andrei is improving.  Peverley is inspired.  Perhaps the best skater for the two teams.  Plekanec is scooting for Montreal.

Gill.  On the boards.  Plekanec supports.

It’s out on the right.  Gionta tries a move.  Spin and a turnover.  High gear.

Gionta has it on the Montreal hash.  Reaches high for it.  High stick is called.

Lucic against Gomez.

Gomez wins it.  Hamrlik.  Rounds his net and drops it.

The team needs Desharnais’ spirit.

Boston turnover on a hash pass.

Moen on the right.  Lifts his stick over the man and tries the around the pylon move.  Stopped.

Halpern is down on the ice deep left.  Still down.

Finger Ference.  Took the chance to elbow Halpern when he wasn’t looking.  Sitting guilty on the bench.  Guilty and justified.  Halpern spares the bench a glance as he chews his mouthguard.  It’s vicious says Brunet.

Ference says something to a teammate.  Unapologetic.  Martin’s glare is as fierce as we’ve seen it.  No call.  The refs missed it.  What’s the technology for, then?

Halpern is led to the trainer’s room.

Plekanec.  Lead pass for Cammalleri.  Stick lifted.  Ryder looms around. But the entry is offside.

Nice play by Ryder.  Peverley was ahead of the play.

Halpern is back.  Chewing and thinking.

Shakes his head a few times.  Reinserts the chewing device.  His orange mouthguard.

Entry.  Long shot.  Kostitsyn.  Wide.

Cammalleri from behind the net.  Looking, searching.  Tries the pass.  Turnover.

Lines change.

Gomez from behind the net.  To the slot.

Bad pass.

Hamrlik is interfered with.  Kelly.  He’s down.

Long Bruin shot.  Rebound.  Price falls like flour.  It’s under him and in the net.

Replay shows that the Kelly hit was legal.  Hamrlik was incensed.

Boston 3, Montreal 2

Recchi is stopped point-blank by Price.

Stoppage.

Sighs and fear.

We resume.

Julien rebuttons the lower button on his jacket.  Martin stews.

Faceoff to Price’s right.  Halpern takes the draw and wins it.

Just under ten.  Offside Montreal.

Eller bumps into his own man on entry and a promising rush is ended.  Price closes the pads on the other end.

Chara bumps Eller under the end-line on re-entry and the crowd cheers.

Plekanec.  Deep right.  To the hash it goes.  And it’s out.

Boston entry.  Bruins are confident again.

Lucic has it in his spot.  Wrister.  Wide.

Plekanec is out.  Held by Chara.  Plekanec punches the giant off.

Eight and the puck is behind the end line.  Weber passes and takes the hit.

Kelly in alone.  Shot.  Price raises the arm and it stays out.  And nearly falls into the net behind him.

But doesn’t’.

Price makes another great save.  A stick breaks on a long Bruin shot.  And a leg gets across.  Pace is going wild.  Canadiens fight to control.  Eller.  Emerges.  Fires.  Fans as his stick is lifted.  Halpern has a try.  Longer shot outside the circle.  Off a Bruin.

Stoppage.  Bruin time-out.

Montreal unit surrounds Muller.  Julien advances to the boards to talk to his guys.  Gets his message through.

Two magnificent chances.  Cammalleri.  Thomas fallen.  No.

Plekanec.  From the slot.  Space and time.  Thomas got across.

Six minutes.

In this series.  Season.  Game.  Period.  Perhaps.

Under the Bruin end line.  Puck is trapped.  Now it’s out.  Boston can’t keep it down in the other end.

Gomez.  Quick shot.

Seidenberg.  To Chara.  Long. Too long.  Subban.  Long right.  Off one and then shot back to the Canadiens.

Subban.  In across the right.  Tries to break through.  Falling, searching, losing the puck.  Forwards are back.

It’s end to end, Bruins lobbing, Canadiens forcing.  Fear is forgotten. Ferocity is a form of creativity and Price’s glove high is the exclamation for these closing minutes.  He holds on for the faceoff.

Mosquito guitar car commercial.  Whither, insect, in toxin.

The better team doesn’t wait.  Neither team deserves to advance.

Faceoff to Price’s right.

Cammalleri.  Finds it.  Races.  With Plekanec.  Slows.  Well-thought but the puck rolls off his stick.

Under four.

Peverley wastes Montreal’s time deep.

Weber saves a chance at the side of the net.

Pass with the hand.  Whistled.  Boston in their own zone.

Deep left.  Montreal wins it.

Finger Ference exits.  Peverley falls.  Puck goes to Spacek.  Gionta low.  Dropped.

Under three.

No more miracles.

Bergeron delivers a hit to the body.  And it’s called.

Bergeron, wearing the A for alternate takes a seat in the box.  High stick is the call.

Montreal power.

Plekanec.  Cammalleri.  And Andrei.  Wisniewski and Subban.

Two thirty seven.

They move it.

Subban.  Blast.  It’s bounding.  And it’s missed.  Seidenberg clears it.

Ninety seconds.

Subban scores.  He scored.  My heart isn’t my own.

Plekanec to Subban at the circle top.  In slow mo, it’s still fast.

The bench erupted.  Julien grimaced.

Montreal 3, Boston 3

Under two.

Eller.  Under and low.  Sent long.  Montreal icing.

One thirty nine.

Gionta works like a captain.  Under the end line.

Boston finally exits.  But they lose the puck.

Wisniewski.  Sends it.  Halpern is on the ice.  Subban and Halpern.  The puck goes to the slot.  Near thing.

Ring a ting ding.  And back.

Rattles and dies in the crease with Price’s glove over it.

Faceoff to Price’s left.

Sixteen seconds.

Plekanec loses the draw.  Shot.  Save.  What a save.  Remembering 33.

It was Ryder.

This time Montreal exits.  Cammalleri.  Accompanied.  Stalled.  Neutral zone.

Siren.

Overtime.

Shots on goal are in favour of Boston 13-11.  Visitors lead 32-29.

Third Intermission
Boston 3, Montreal 3

Price, not at his best.  A few others.  But the commentators agree the Canadiens have played well, overall.  I dunno.  Michel Bergeron points out that Montreal has failed to score an even-strength goal in the past two games.  Four power-play goals.  One short-handed.

The hat.

The penalty.  But hey.  Finger got away with one.  Michel addresses it just as I type it out.

Ference should be out of hockey.  If I was mayor of this league, boy.

Overtime
Montreal 3, Boston 3

Sudden death.  I dasn’t likes it.

Plekanec line.

Cammalleri spins and panics.  Gives it away.  Montreal covers.

Kostitsyn at centre ice.  Accelerates.  Left side. Muscles in.  The shot.  Big rebound.  Rebound can’t be had.

Gionta.  Giving everything.  Pounding Peverley, trapping another Bruin under the end line.

Eller line.  Eller is tripped.  No call.  Under the end line.  Moen takes it over.

Boston exits.  Long, high shot.

Montreal three on two.  To Moen.  Keeps.  Backhand loft to the crease and Thomas advances to cover it.

Montreal has driven four times impressively.  Faceoff deep.  Andrei falls.  Still pushes it to the crease.  Thomas covers it.

Just fell on the ice.  What.  Is it slippery?

More Montreal control.  Kostitsyn, shooting.  Just wide.

Boston decides to join the rush party.

But they turn it over and Montreal is out again.  Halpern, high puck.  Stays in play.

Montreal delivers the hits.  Chase.  Recovers.  Eller.

Eller gives it away.  More panic.

Eller on the right.  No.

Gill a shot.   Hits Darche.

Canadiens retrieve.  Subban.  Up for Plekanec.  On the right.  Offwing shot.  Blocked.  He continues the work.  He bumps Bergeron in the corner.

Recchi.  Right side.  Offwing.  The Doctor is stopped.  Held.

Boston wins it.  Blue.  Shot.  Halpern blocks it.

Faceoff to Price’s left.  Boston wins again.  To the blue.  Across.

Stays in.

Bergeron.   Puck floats high.  Montreal is out.

Gionta.  Right side. Shot.  Thomas keeps it.  Tight to the crest.

Faceoff to his left.

Spacek’s shot is into a leg.

More Montreal control.

But Kelly is out on the left. Covered.  Some space.  Outside shot.  Weak.  Price holds it to his chest.

Halpern line.

Halpern is warned.  Then asked to leave.  Plekanec takes it.  Reunited with Halpern.

Montreal.   They come up with it.  But Cammalleri’s weak work costs the team a goal.

From the left point.

Crowd shakes and jello is yellow.

Goal by number eighteen.  Off a leg.  Or something.

Final Score
Boston 4
Montreal 3

Boston wins the best of seven series, 4-3

HDS Stars: Rich Peverley, Tomas Plekanec, Tim Thomas
RDS Stars: Nathan Horton, Tomas Plekanec, PK Subban

I took off my hat.  Sometime before the goal.  It’s red.

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