B's Grab a Roller Coaster Win

The Bruin's fueled by a Marc Savard 4 point night beat Tampabay 6-5 in OT. It was not a win they or anyone else expected to pull off after a dismall start by Hannu Toivanin. Hannu let in 5 goals on 21 shots and two of them where of the extremely soft variety, and where what you call back breakers, coming just seconds after the Bruin's rallied to tie the game TWICE!

Thomas came in for Hannu in the third and stopped the seven shots he faced. It should be a matter of days before we see a deal in Beantown for legit starting goalie. At this point we will likely see Thomas get shipped out if the deal includes a goalie. Not to much stock around the league in a goalie who has been pulled for poor performance in his last two starts.

Kudos goes out to the whole team on this one as they never gave up and kept pushing forward.
The line of Muzz, Savvy and Axelson has really seemed to take off of late. They had a combined ten points against Buffalo and last night was pretty much the same thing. Muzz with the game winner, Savvy with two and two and Axelson with one and a couple of assists.
The "FORMER" top line of Sturm, Bergeron and Boyes was a no show last night as far as offense goes. Strum and Boyes had one shot each and Bergy has two. Can't score if you don't shoot. Someone on that line needs to pull the trigger.

Phil Kessel finally got a real goal, being set up in the slot by Mowers for a quick wrister through Dennis five hole. It is only a matter of time before this kid's confidence is there and he starts showing the Hub Cap of Hockey why he was thought to be the #1 overall pick for a good part of last year. Yes his defensive game needs work, but hell if he can score 30-40 goals then we will take the lapses in D, after all is that not why he is skating with Premaue and Mowers? They certainly are not out there for the great offense abilities they have.

Next game is against Atlanta on Monday.
The Bruins finished their six game home stand 3-1-2* (which if you think about it is not all that bad, unless you remeber that the two OT or Shoot out losses should have been wins!)