National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Montreal 4, Boston 2
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, March 20, 2008
Where: TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
Referees: Kerry Fraser, Don Van Massenhoven
Linesmen: David Brisebois, Brian Murphy
Attendance: 17565
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Montreal 0224
Boston 0112
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
7:20 - Canadiens Guillaume Latendresse (2) Hooking
 13:13 - Bruins Glen Murray (2) Slashing
2nd Period
Scoring
8:19 - Canadiens Alex Kovalev (EV) Assists: Andrei Kostitsyn , Josh Gorges
13:21 - Canadiens Alex Kovalev (EV) Unassisted
13:48 - Bruins Mark Stuart (EV) Assists: Shane Hnidy , Chuck Kobasew
Penalties
6:43 - Bruins Jeremy Reich (5) Fighting
 6:43 - Canadiens Tom Kostopoulos (5) Fighting
 10:09 - Canadiens Sergei Kostitsyn (2) Hooking
 17:41 - Bruins Bench (2) Too many men on ice
3rd Period
Scoring
6:47 - Canadiens Michael Ryder (EV) Assists: Saku Koivu , Guillaume Latendresse
11:13 - Canadiens Andrei Kostitsyn (EV) Assists: Alex Kovalev , Mark Streit
16:55 - Bruins Dennis Wideman (EV) Assists: Petteri Nokelainen , P.J. Axelsson
Penalties
3:32 - Canadiens Alex Kovalev (2) Tripping
 12:18 - Bruins Mark Stuart (2) Tripping
 19:52 - Canadiens Sergei Kostitsyn (2) Holding
 20:00 - Bruins Milan Lucic (2) Cross checking
Montreal Canadiens
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Carey Price G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 48:18 6:00 5:42 0 0 - - - - -
Jaroslav Halak G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Ryan O'Byrne D 0 0 0 E 0 0 16 13:17 13:17 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tom Kostopoulos RW 0 0 0 E 5 2 13 10:07 9:39 0:02 0:26 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Komisarek D 0 0 0 E 0 0 4 2:45 2:45 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Saku Koivu C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 21 17:25 12:23 2:47 2:15 0 0 - - 10 8 56
Tomas Plekanec LW 0 0 0 +2 0 3 21 19:42 14:45 3:11 1:46 0 0 - - 11 10 52
Chris Higgins C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 22 19:40 15:15 2:15 2:10 0 0 - - - - -
Josh Gorges D 0 1 1 E 0 0 28 22:55 21:32 0:02 1:21 0 0 - - - - -
Alex Kovalev RW 2 1 3 +3 2 6 22 20:46 16:31 3:12 1:03 0 0 - - - - -
Mark Streit D 0 1 1 +2 0 5 20 14:19 9:03 4:58 0:18 0 0 - - - - -
Maxim Lapierre C 0 0 0 E 0 1 18 11:43 9:41 0:02 2:00 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 0 +3 0 2 27 22:35 17:10 1:00 4:25 0 0 - - - - -
Andrei Kostitsyn RW 1 1 2 +3 0 4 18 17:35 13:50 3:45 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Francis Bouillon D 0 0 0 E 0 1 27 20:46 16:23 0:02 4:21 0 0 - - - - -
Mikhail Grabovski C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 13 11:51 11:51 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 2 5 29
Michael Ryder RW 1 0 1 E 0 3 17 12:42 10:07 2:35 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Sergei Kostitsyn RW 0 0 0 -1 4 1 18 16:34 14:08 1:00 1:26 0 0 - - - - -
Andrei Markov D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 29 25:28 19:13 4:58 1:17 0 0 - - - - -
Guillaume Latendresse RW 0 1 1 E 2 0 18 14:08 13:57 0:11 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Boston Bruins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Tim Thomas G 0 0 0 0 0 58:48 47:06 5:42 6:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Auld G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Dennis Wideman D 1 0 1 -2 0 6 24 23:51 16:42 4:37 2:32 0 0 - - - - -
P.J. Axelsson LW 0 1 1 -2 0 0 21 16:16 13:34 0:00 2:42 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Chuck Kobasew RW 0 1 1 E 0 1 22 17:24 14:09 1:42 1:33 0 0 - - - - -
Glen Metropolit C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 23 16:12 13:15 0:08 2:49 0 0 - - 6 8 43
Marco Sturm LW 0 0 0 +1 0 5 20 16:43 11:19 4:00 1:24 0 0 - - - - -
Milan Lucic LW 0 0 0 -1 2 3 21 16:38 15:17 1:21 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Andrew Ference D 0 0 0 E 0 1 22 19:13 14:40 1:05 3:28 0 0 - - - - -
Shawn Thornton LW 0 0 0 +1 0 0 12 7:58 7:58 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Glen Murray RW 0 0 0 -1 2 1 21 18:30 14:33 3:55 0:02 0 0 - - - - -
Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 -2 0 4 23 24:50 17:32 4:46 2:32 0 0 - - - - -
Shane Hnidy D 0 1 1 E 0 0 17 16:17 15:46 0:00 0:31 0 0 - - - - -
Aaron Ward D 0 0 0 E 0 1 22 19:43 15:50 0:56 2:57 0 0 - - - - -
Mark Stuart D 1 0 1 E 2 1 18 16:11 16:11 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
David Krejci C 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 13:47 13:27 0:20 0:00 0 0 - - 4 6 40
Jeremy Reich LW 0 0 0 E 5 1 12 9:51 7:32 0:00 2:19 0 0 - - - - -
Petteri Nokelainen C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 9 7:27 7:27 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 3 3 50
Phil Kessel C 0 0 0 -2 0 4 19 13:24 12:08 1:16 0:00 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Marc Savard C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 24 20:57 15:22 4:24 1:11 0 0 - - 14 12 54
Goaltending
Montreal
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Carey Price W (24-12-3) 36 34 2 .944 0 60:00
Boston
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Tim Thomas L (28-19-6) 30 26 4 .867 0 58:48