The Senators reclaimed home-ice advantage when Bobby Ryan deflected Turris's pass at 5:43 of overtime to give Ottawa its second straight extra-session win and series lead. "We want to tie things up in the series and make it a best-of-3 going back to Ottawa (on Friday)".
Trailing by a trio of goals through the first 24 minutes of play, the Bruins countered off of three unanswered goals in the second period, with Noel Acciari, David Backes and David Pastrnak all lightning the lamp in the frame. As we've seen so many times before, it was only the retaliation that got called.
And completing a night of all-overtime hockey, the Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames also needed sudden death to decide things in Calgary last night, and Corey Perry made the Flames pay for blowing a three goal lead in regulation, scoring the game victor in OT to give the Ducks a 5-4 win and putting Calgary on the brink of elimination, down now three games to none.
Riley Nash was in the penalty box for taking a swing at Ryan when Erik Karlsson hit a flying Turris with a pass into the zone that was close to being offside.
B's right winger David Pastrnak would tie the game 3-3 at 13:51 of the period, sending the Garden crowd into a frenzy. In less than 8 minutes, the Ottawa lead was gone and it was a brand new game once again.
"I always say that you make your money during the season, but you make your reputation in the playoffs, and right now he's showing everybody that he's a gamer", Boucher said. The Bruins now trail the series 2-1 with game 4 set for Wednesday night in Boston.
The Bruins have been forced to hand heavy minutes to inexperienced or rusty defensemen in the wake of several key injuries to the back end.
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Ryan scored his second goal of the series - and made up for his failure to corral a puck that led directly to a David Backes goal in the Boston rally.
Defenseman Colin Miller is expected to play Wednesday in Boston's Game 4 matchup with the Ottawa Senators, head coach Bruce Cassidy confirmed after an optional morning skate at TD Garden.
The story was different in Game 2.
After the third period of play could not determine a victor, Ryan closed out the win for Ottawa, crashing the net on the power play and beating Rask to give the Senators the lead in the series.
Perhaps scared stiff by the drubbing, the Bruins responded and scored three times before the end of the period to knot the score 3-3 heading into the final frame. Mike Hoffman added two goals for Ottawa, with Derick Brassard scoring the other.
Overall, Rask has faced just nine shots from the high-danger area at even strength, stopping all of them, while allowing two goals on 10 shots from the medium-danger area. In an "even against a power play as mediocre as the Senators', if you take one of those guys off the ice and then play down a man, you're going to give up a goal" kind of way. Torey Krug (lower body), Adam McQuaid (upper body) and Brandon Carlo (upper body) remain sidelined. "Win your little battles and it goes a long way in the war". "They're a good team over there, they've got really good players and they're really well coached".
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