Game 7, April 27, 2011
Boston 4 Montreal 3 (OT)
Bruins. Canadiens. Game 7. The first game 7 between the two since April 21, 2008 when an over-matched Bruins squad took the Habs to the brink before falling.
Johnny Boychuk settled the nerves of the home crowd at 3:31, firing a shot past Price from the point.
Mark Recchi made them wonder if for once it might be easy at 5:33, taking a feed from Ference and putting the Bruins up by 2.
But, typical Montreal, the Habs responded with a PP goal from Yannick Weber to pull with one at the end of one.
In the second the hapless Bruin power play went from bad to worse, giving up a short handed goal to Tomas Plekanic on a break away at 5:50 that evened the score.
Halfway through the 3rd period the caged Chris Kelly put the home team back on top after Roman Hamrlik dove trying to draw another penalty and it looked like the Bruins were poised to move on. But a late high-sticking penalty by Patrice Bergeron gave PK Subban a chance to even it up again at 18:03, sending Game 7 to overtime. Of course.
After a back and forth 5 minutes the Bruins lined up for an offensive zone draw at 5:23. A stalemate off the draw eventually led to the puck bouncing to PK Subban who wired it around the boads. A punching McQuaid stole the puck from Cammalleri and then stole it again from Subban, knocking it to Lucic just outside the right faceoff dot. Lucic found a wide open Horton who had dropped back to the blue line to cover for the pinching McQuaid. Horton glided left, clearing the pile in front of the net, and blasted a slap shot past a sprawling Price at 5:43. And "The Bruins! Knock off Montreal!"
The Bruins become the first team in NHL history to win a 7 game series without scoring a power play goal. They also become the first Bruins team to come back from down 0-2 to win a playoff series.
Up next: Philadelphia, the 2 seed.
Here's how SoSH reacted (if I can find the old threads)