Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins

Regular season · Thursday, March 2, 2000 · FleetCenter

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5–2

Final

SOG 35–25

BostonBruinsHome

Game summary

The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 on Thursday, March 2, 2000 at FleetCenter. The Canadiens outshot the Bruins 35-25.

Shayne Corson scored twice. Sergei Samsonov, Eric Nickulas, Benoit Brunet, Sergei Zholtok and Martin Rucinsky also scored.

Goals	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
MTL	0	2	3	5	35
BOS	1	1	0	2	25

Scoring

1st period

Sergei Samsonov (17)Ray Bourque (28), Cameron Mann (2)0–100:28 BOS

2nd period

Eric Nickulas (1)Darren Van Impe (20)0–211:38 BOS
Benoit Brunet (10)Patrick Poulin (3)1–216:16 MTL · SHG
Shayne Corson (6)Saku Koivu (13), Benoit Brunet (13)2–219:54 MTL

3rd period

Sergei Zholtok (21)Craig Rivet (10), Oleg Petrov (13)3–211:49 MTL
Shayne Corson (7)Saku Koivu (14)4–214:54 MTL
Martin Rucinsky (21)Unassisted5–218:42 MTL · SHG

Team stats

MTLBOS

35Shots on goal25

56%Faceoff %44%

0/3Power play0/6

12Penalty minutes6

32Hits34

14Blocked shots12

7Giveaways9

5Takeaways9

Penalties

1st 02:34Karl Dykhuis · interference2 min
1st 08:38Don Sweeney · boarding2 min
1st 10:06Bench · too many men on the ice2 min
1st 15:36Darren Van Impe · boarding2 min
1st 17:32Francis Bouillon · tripping2 min
2nd 06:53Andre Savage · holding the stick2 min
2nd 14:54Martin Rucinsky · tripping2 min
3rd 03:47Patrick Poulin · hooking2 min
3rd 17:16Craig Rivet · cross checking2 min

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