Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
Playoffs · Saturday, April 19, 2008 · TD Banknorth Garden
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Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at TD Banknorth Garden. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 36–35.
Chris Higgins scored twice and Phil Kessel scored twice. Tomas Plekanec, Vladimir Sobotka, Francis Bouillon, Milan Lucic and Marco Sturm also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Higgins (1)Saku Koivu (1)1–009:44 MTL
2nd period
Phil Kessel (2)Marc Savard (4), Shane Hnidy (1)1–101:54 BOS
Tomas Plekanec (1)Steve Begin (3)2–107:43 MTL
3rd period
Vladimir Sobotka (2)Peter Schaefer (3), Dennis Wideman (3)2–203:13 BOS
Francis Bouillon (1)Josh Gorges (1), Sergei Kostitsyn (1)3–210:04 MTL
Milan Lucic (2)Aaron Ward (1), Marc Savard (5)3–312:13 BOS- Phil Kessel (3)Marco Sturm (2), David Krejci (3)3–415:45 BOS
- Chris Higgins (2)Saku Koivu (2), Sergei Kostitsyn (2)4–415:56 MTL
Marco Sturm (2)David Krejci (4), Zdeno Chara (1)4–517:23 BOS
Team stats
MTLBOS
3536
59%41%
0/40/2
1014
2634
169
23
210
Penalties
- 7:04 into the first period
Aaron Ward · tripping2 min - 9:30 into the first periodPhil Kessel · slashing2 min
- 9:30 into the first period
Steve Begin · diving2 min - 15:35 into the first periodMark Stuart · tripping2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodZdeno Chara · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodSteve Begin · roughing2 min
- 5:35 into the second periodTomas Plekanec · hooking2 min
- 8:49 into the second periodMark Streit · holding2 min
- 9:50 into the second periodMarc Savard · hooking2 min
- 18:52 into the second periodP.J. Axelsson · interference2 min
- 18:52 into the second periodAndrei Kostitsyn · diving2 min
- 4:00 into the third periodAndrew Ference · interference2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.