Boston Bruins vs Montréal Canadiens
Playoffs · Saturday, April 12, 2008 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 3–2 in overtime on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Centre Bell. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 39–31.
Goals came from Roman Hamrlik, Sergei Kostitsyn, Peter Schaefer, David Krejci and Alex Kovalev.
Carey Price made 37 saves on 39 shots for the win; Tim Thomas stopped 28 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Roman Hamrlik (1)Bryan Smolinski (1), Steve Begin (1)0–118:30 MTL
2nd period
Sergei Kostitsyn (2)Patrice Brisebois (2), Alex Kovalev (1)0–201:50 MTL
3rd period
Peter Schaefer (1)Petteri Nokelainen (1)1–203:58 BOS
David Krejci (1)Marco Sturm (1), Marc Savard (1)2–209:34 BOS ·
Overtime
Alex Kovalev (1)Andrei Markov (1), Tomas Plekanec (2)2–302:30 MTL ·
Team stats
BOSMTL
3931
52%48%
1/61/8
1814
3138
2025
1128
37
Penalties
- 5:52 into the first period
Andrei Markov · hooking2 min - 11:00 into the first periodMark Streit · holding2 min
- 14:03 into the first period
Zdeno Chara · cross checking2 min - 20:00 into the first periodJeremy Reich · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodChris Higgins · roughing2 min
- 4:07 into the second periodPetteri Nokelainen · holding2 min
- 7:28 into the second periodMark Streit · hooking2 min
- 11:46 into the second periodRoman Hamrlik · slashing2 min
- 18:20 into the second periodMark Stuart · interference2 min
- 7:45 into the third periodMaxim Lapierre · hooking2 min
- 9:20 into the third periodAlex Kovalev · slashing2 min
- 12:50 into the third periodJeremy Reich · holding2 min
- 14:17 into the third periodGlen Metropolit · tripping2 min
- 17:43 into the third periodShawn Thornton · high sticking double minor4 min
- 1:31 into overtimeJeremy Reich · tripping2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:56 |
| 46David KrejciC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18:50 |
| 56Petteri NokelainenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 11:24 |
| 72Peter SchaeferL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 09:34 |
| 91Marc SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 15:49 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:04 |
| 13Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:42 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 15:48 |
| 22Shawn ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10:14 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:11 |
| 53Jeremy ReichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:12 |
| 60Vladimir SobotkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:44 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 22:27 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 27:50 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:47 |
| 41Andrew AlbertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:44 |
| 44Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26:57 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:53 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Alex AuldG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tim ThomasG | L | 31 | 3 | .903 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 22:01 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 19:24 |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:29 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:05 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:28 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 21:20 |
| 71Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:27 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27:45 |
| 6Tom KostopoulosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 11:31 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:49 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:53 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:07 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:22 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:46 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:04 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:13 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:24 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | W | 39 | 2 | .949 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |