Over the last five the games, the Boston Bruins are 5-0-0 and have outscored their opposition 23-9. Wednesday was a little different in that the Ottawa Senators gave the Bruins a game of it rather than the typical roll over.
“We weren’t clean with the puck early on,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. “They bottled up the neutral zone, something we’ve seen of teams in the past here in Ottawa. It took us awhile to sort of get to our game, where we could get through there and establish a little something. But eventually we got there, and it took everybody. We found a way to win.”
Tuukka Rask made 33 saves for the Bruins as they defeated the Sens in Ottawa, 2-1.
Thomas Chabot gave the Sens a 1-0 lead in the first minute of the third period.
“I thought we worked really hard,” Ottawa coach D.J. Smith said. “We made a couple of mistakes that ended up in our net, some real good players of theirs scored, we just didn’t find a way to score on our chances, but I don’t know if we can play much better through [the first] two periods.”
Brad Marchand and Zdeno Chara for Boston who improved to 17-3-5..
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Anders Nilsson made 19 saves in the loss.
“I would say, for two periods, we out-chanced them. We’ll have to look at the tape, but I would say we out-chanced them, for sure,” Smith said. “In the third period, they turned it up a notch and we couldn’t hang with them.”
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