The B's play grinch to the Habs

The Bruins pulled out another win over the streaking Habs on Saturday night. Boston Jumped out to an early two goal lead, only to see it disapear by the mid way point. Once again the penalty killing continued to improve, and what seemed like a good night for the power play, after Sturm scored an earlier first period goal, turned ugly early in the second when the B's gave up a shorthanded goal, the Habs 11 shorthanded goal of the season. (sounds like they should take more penalties to me)
Thomas looked solid in net once again, making some saves that he should not have (which is something we have not been used to here in the hubcap of hockey.) Thomas stopped 20 of 22, and should be buying Christmas dinner for the boys, as they held the habs to four second period shots ( Thomas was 3 for 4 in the second, which does not boast well for the GAA, but turned out to be enough to get it done) .
The boys looked as if they had a chip on their shoulder, with Muzz getting into it with Koivu in the first, after the Habs captian took a liberty on the back of Muzz's leg. Murray tried to get the midget muskovite to throw down, which would have been Murray's first fighting majore since 1995, but Koivu was to much of a pussy and he just turtled until help arrived.
This was a big win for the boys, going into the Christmas break, in third place in the Northeast (hardest division in the NHL in my humble opinion) and in 9th place, one point out of a playoff spot in the East.
Now is the time for the big playoff push, deals will be made and we are likely to see at least one of the three free agents (Sturm, Primeau, Stuart) get moved. What they will get in return is yet to be seen, a power forward (someone like Joe Thornton would be great, I know in my dreams) or a solid number one goalie, which despite Thomas's play of late, we are still without. Thomas is getting close to that breaking point, where he completely falls apart due to fatigue. It happened last year just in time for January and I would hate to see it happen now with the team surging.
Time will tell, hopefully history only repeats itself when it comes to the Redsox and Yankees.