Toronto Maple Leafs vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, December 18, 2008 · TD Banknorth Garden
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Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8-5 on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at TD Banknorth Garden. The Maple Leafs outshot the Bruins 36-27.
David Krejci scored a hat trick and Phil Kessel scored twice. Marco Sturm, Pavel Kubina, Marc Savard, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Nik Antropov, Mikhail Grabovski, Jason Blake and Michael Ryder also scored.
Tim Thomas made 18 saves on 23 shots for the win; Curtis Joseph stopped 12 of 16.
Scoring
1st period
Marco Sturm (7)Chuck Kobasew (10), Patrice Bergeron (14)0–100:36 BOS
David Krejci (9)Milan Lucic (12), Phil Kessel (13)0–204:34 BOS · PPG
Pavel Kubina (6)Nikolay Kulemin (7), Nik Antropov (11)1–207:23 TOR · PPG
2nd period
Marc Savard (9)Zdeno Chara (10), P.J. Axelsson (8)1–301:28 BOS · PPG- David Krejci (10)Blake Wheeler (9)1–402:03 BOS
Phil Kessel (20)Marc Savard (27)1–504:21 BOS
Alexei Ponikarovsky (9)Jeff Finger (6), Lee Stempniak (14)2–508:36 TOR
Nik Antropov (12)John Mitchell (6), Jeff Finger (7)3–509:58 TOR
Mikhail Grabovski (11)Mike Van Ryn (6), Alexei Ponikarovsky (12)4–516:36 TOR- Phil Kessel (21)Marc Savard (28), P.J. Axelsson (9)4–618:00 BOS
Jason Blake (6)Tomas Kaberle (18), Pavel Kubina (9)5–619:16 TOR · PPG
3rd period
Michael Ryder (11)Zdeno Chara (11)5–710:42 BOS · PPG- David Krejci (11)Marc Savard (29), Dennis Wideman (12)5–815:44 BOS · PPG
Team stats
TORBOS
36Shots on goal27
52%Faceoff %48%
2/5Power play4/6
24Penalty minutes22
19Hits22
9Blocked shots11
4Giveaways3
3Takeaways5
Penalties
- 1st 04:04
Pavel Kubina · tripping2 min - 1st 06:12
Matt Lashoff · hooking2 min - 1st 12:49Milan Lucic · hooking2 min
- 1st 15:57Andre Deveaux · interference2 min
- 1st 19:00Shawn Thornton · fighting5 min
- 1st 19:00Andre Deveaux · fighting5 min
- 2nd 01:13Nikolay Kulemin · high sticking2 min
- 2nd 02:51Mark Stuart · fighting5 min
- 2nd 02:51John Mitchell · fighting5 min
- 2nd 10:18Michael Ryder · hooking2 min
- 2nd 19:02Tim Thomas · holding2 min
- 3rd 07:45Marc Savard · hooking2 min
- 3rd 07:45Milan Lucic · roughing2 min
- 3rd 07:45Jeff Finger · roughing2 min
- 3rd 10:13Mikhail Grabovski · holding2 min
- 3rd 14:19Nikolay Kulemin · hooking2 min
- 3rd 14:49Jeff Finger · slashing2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:08 |
| 80Nik AntropovC | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 4 | 17:33 |
| 4Jeff FingerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16:48 |
| 77Pavel KubinaD | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 2 | 23:49 |
| 12Lee StempniakR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:21 |
| 39John MitchellC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:34 |
| 41Nikolay KuleminL | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 13:24 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 18:29 |
| 84Mikhail GrabovskiC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:32 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26:10 |
| 26Mike Van RynD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:26 |
| 14Matt StajanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 14:24 |
| 18Jeremy WilliamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:55 |
| 19Dominic MooreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:31 |
| 44Ryan HollwegL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:19 |
| 56Andre DeveauxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:39 |
| 7Ian WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:03 |
| 59Jaime SifersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 17:37 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Curtis JosephG | L | 16 | 12 | 4 | .750 | 35:09 |
| 35Vesa ToskalaG | 11 | 7 | 4 | .636 | 24:15 |
Boston Bruins
| 91Marc SavardC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 19:51 |
| 46David KrejciC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 16:20 |
| 81Phil KesselR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 14:04 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16:16 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 28:09 |
| 12Chuck KobasewR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:26 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 02:31 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:52 |
| 26Blake WheelerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:27 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 14:35 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 24:53 |
| 18Stephane YelleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 22Shawn ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 09:04 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:55 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 17:44 |
| 48Matt HunwickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:50 |
| 49Matt LashoffD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:11 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tim ThomasG | W | 23 | 18 | 5 | .783 | 40:00 |
| 35Manny FernandezG | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1.000 | 19:58 |