The Fifth Liners

When Rene Rancourt is singing the anthem, you know it's game time at the TD Garden. The Boston Bruins welcomed the Chicago Blackhawks for game three of the final. Before the puck was dropped; Chicago suffered a huge loss when Marian Hossa was injured during the warm up. The first period started tentatively. Patrice Bergeron came close, forcing a superb skate save from Crawford but Chicago controlled the puck for most of the period. Suprisingly, after the penalty-fests that were the first two games, it took 10 minutes before Kaspars Daugavins took a trip to the box for roughing. The call was controversial as replays showed that that Daugavins planted his elbow into Andrew Shaw's head. Still though the Bruins were able to kill the powerplay. NHLPA might have something to say on that one. Later in the period, Shawn Thornton took his seat in the box after more roughing on Shaw. There wasn't much to it but the whistle had already gone so fair call. Duncan Keith and ...

The Boston Bruins claimed a 2-1 win over the New York Rangers last night at Madison Square Garden to push their advantage to a 3-0 lead in this series, but this win was decided by a moment in the third period where the puck bounced off Henrik Lundqvist to give Boston the game winning goal! After a scoreless first period, Ryan McDonagh's long shot in the early in the second period deflected off Taylor Pyatt to give the Rangers the early advantage. The Bruins however found a break through three minutes into the third period when Johnny Boychuk scored to level the scores. With time running out in the period, Hamilton's shot clipped the mask of Lundqvist and fell perfectly for Daniel Paille who drove the puck home to give Boston a deserved win! New York's offense in that game was clearly lacking as Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask was only required to make 23 saves where as Rangers goalie Lundqvist had a far busier night with 32 saves and single handedly kept them in the game. ...