Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins
Playoffs · Wednesday, May 2, 2018 · TD Garden
NBCSN · CBC · TVAS
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 4–1 on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at TD Garden. The Lightning outshot the Bruins 37–29.
Ondrej Palat scored twice. Patrice Bergeron, Anthony Cirelli and Steven Stamkos also scored.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves on 29 shots for the win; Tuukka Rask stopped 33 of 36.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Ondrej Palat (3)Tyler Johnson (2), Anton Stralman (2)1–001:47 TBL- Ondrej Palat (4)Victor Hedman (3), Dan Girardi (1)2–003:19 TBL
Patrice Bergeron (4)David Pastrnak (14), Rick Nash (2)2–114:12 BOS · 
Anthony Cirelli (1)Yanni Gourde (3), Ryan McDonagh (5)3–116:43 TBL
3rd period
Steven Stamkos (2)J.T. Miller (4), Victor Hedman (4)4–119:18 TBL · ·
Team stats
TBLBOS
3729
54%46%
1/51/1
1927
2636
1912
1714
115
Penalties
- 6:04 into the first period
Riley Nash · interference2 min - 10:39 into the first periodCharlie McAvoy · roughing2 min
- 13:43 into the first period
Anton Stralman · tripping2 min - 11:58 into the second periodTorey Krug · holding2 min
- 15:12 into the second periodDavid Backes · boarding2 min
- 15:12 into the second periodCedric Paquette · fighting5 min
- 15:12 into the second periodCedric Paquette · misconduct10 min
- 15:12 into the second periodDavid Backes · fighting5 min
- 15:12 into the second periodCedric Paquette · instigator2 min
- 15:57 into the second periodBrad Marchand · slashing2 min
- 18:31 into the third periodTorey Krug · tripping2 min
- 19:18 into the third periodBrad Marchand · misconduct10 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 20:28 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 26:18 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:25 |
| 10J.T. MillerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:51 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:32 |
| 71Anthony CirelliC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 11:44 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:38 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 16:32 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24:00 |
| 27Ryan McDonaghD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 23:56 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:02 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:31 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:36 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | 21:17 |
| 24Ryan CallahanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:34 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18:10 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:32 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Louis DomingueG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | W | 29 | 1 | .966 |
Boston Bruins
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:14 |
| 61Rick NashL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 6 | 19:10 |
| 88David PastrnakR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19:55 |
| 20Riley NashC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:52 |
| 42David BackesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 06:09 |
| 43Danton HeinenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:55 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:42 |
| 52Sean KuralyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:02 |
| 55Noel AcciariC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:40 |
| 57Tommy WingelsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:24 |
| 63Brad MarchandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21:27 |
| 74Jake DeBruskL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:40 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:22 |
| 47Torey KrugD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 22:35 |
| 48Matt GrzelcykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:33 |
| 54Adam McQuaidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:46 |
| 73Charlie McAvoyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27:09 |
| 86Kevan MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 22:21 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Anton KhudobinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Tuukka RaskG | L | 36 | 3 | .917 |