Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, March 25, 2010 · TD Garden
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Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 5–3 on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at TD Garden. The Bruins outshot the Lightning 50–18.
Steven Stamkos scored twice and Paul Szczechura scored twice. Martin St. Louis, Zdeno Chara, Johnny Boychuk and Mark Recchi also scored.
Antero Niittymaki made 47 saves on 50 shots for the win; Tuukka Rask stopped 13 of 18.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Steven Stamkos (1)Steve Downie (1), Mike Lundin (1)1–000:49 TBL
Martin St. Louis (1)Vincent Lecavalier (1), Victor Hedman (1)2–018:05 TBL
Zdeno Chara (1)David Krejci (1), Dennis Wideman (1)2–119:33 BOS
2nd period
Paul Szczechura (1)Unassisted3–106:50 TBL
Johnny Boychuk (1)David Krejci (2), Michael Ryder (1)3–210:42 BOS- Steven Stamkos (2)Kurtis Foster (1)4–219:34 TBL ·
3rd period
- Paul Szczechura (2)Martin St. Louis (1), Alex Tanguay (1)5–203:00 TBL ·
Mark Recchi (1)Patrice Bergeron (1), Dennis Seidenberg (1)5–311:50 BOS
Team stats
TBLBOS
1850
58%42%
2/30/3
88
1222
134
24
04
Penalties
- 18:52 into the first period
Mark Stuart · roughing2 min - 18:52 into the first period
Steve Downie · elbowing2 min - 11:43 into the second periodAndrej Meszaros · tripping2 min
- 17:54 into the second periodBlake Wheeler · interference2 min
- 1:22 into the third periodDennis Wideman · kneeing2 min
- 3:28 into the third periodMark Stuart · tripping2 min
- 7:20 into the third periodAndrej Meszaros · interference2 min
- 17:53 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21:33 |
| 38Paul SzczechuraC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13:49 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 21:31 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 21:47 |
| 9Steve DownieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 09:49 |
| 13Alex TanguayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:29 |
| 6Kurtis FosterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 12:35 |
| 39Mike LundinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26:33 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24:39 |
| 16Teddy PurcellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:09 |
| 17Todd FedorukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 08:07 |
| 19Stephane VeilleuxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:39 |
| 28Zenon KonopkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 06:47 |
| 37Mark ParrishR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:21 |
| 44Nate ThompsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 12:06 |
| 8Matt WalkerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:27 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 26:30 |
| 21David HaleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:09 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Antero NiittymakiG | W | 50 | 3 | .940 |
| 41Mike SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 20:42 |
| 28Mark RecchiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:36 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 21:36 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 14:38 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:24 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 7 | 26:13 |
| 44Dennis SeidenbergD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 24:59 |
| 55Johnny BoychukD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14:56 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:32 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 18:35 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:50 |
| 22Shawn ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 05:44 |
| 26Blake WheelerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 17:46 |
| 27Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:40 |
| 42Trent WhitfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 05:49 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:04 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:47 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tim ThomasG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Tuukka RaskG | L | 18 | 5 | .722 |