Bruins Shut Down Maple Leafs in Series Opener

This was the Bruins team we all remember.

The Bruins were looking to get the playoffs started on the right note against the Maple Leafs who they only lost 1 game out of 4 in the regular season. Toronto had the upper hand in the first 5 minutes or so into the game, and they would actually score first on van Riemsdyk's first of the playoffs after some crazy bounces that led to him having an open net and just tapping it in basically. The Bruins woke up from there though. They pretty much were in control of the rest of the game. They tied it up 1-1 when Wade Redden made a slapshot from the left face-off dot and it Reimer almost stopped it, but it just squeezed through his arm. Wade Redden would also be involved with the second goal. This time it was a wrist shot and there was a great tip by Horton right in front. He tipped it right down to the ice and it bounced underneath the glove side of Reimer with 12 seconds left in the First Period. In the Second, the Bruins got some lucky bounces of there own. I'm pretty sure the puck bounced off of about 4 different things, whether it was a Bruins or Maple Leafs player. Krejci was able to jump on the lose puck and put it in the net. Now for the final goal. Krejci got into the offensive zone and left the puck behind at the blue line for Boychuk to just rip a slapshot and it flat out beat Reimer. It's moments like that when I want them to measure the speed of shots. Shots in this game were 40 to 20 in favor of the Bruins, yeah.

There was a lot of physical play in the game, a lot of hits, but it looked like there weren't gonna be any fights during the game. Well, there wasn't, it was actually after the buzzer sounded to end the game that Kelly dropped the gloves with Komarov. It wasn't the best fight, but the game ended with some fireworks. If we play like we are capable of (which we did tonight, finally) we will be able to win this series.

~Anthony