The Bruins came into tonight's game against the Devils taking place in three straight overtime affairs. Well, better make it four.The Bruins and Devils decided to face-off literally just three minutes in when Shawn Thornton got manhandled in one of the most lop sided fights of the year.
The Bruins and Devils were trying to establish the play after the fight and the Bruins had their chances. Blaker Wheeler had the best chance for the Bruins, having his shot slide off of the post.
With the Bruins on the power play they looked to take the momentum, however, Jamie Langenbrunner had other plans. Langenbrunner came in on Tim Thomas on a partial break away and was able to net the first goal of the game (short handed) for the 1-0 lead.
The Bruins fought for the rest of the period but were not able to put any rubber behind Scott Clemmensen.
New Jersey came out in the second and was skating all over the Bruins. The Bruins had their chances on a couple of New Jersey penalties but for the most part the Devils controlled the play.
The Devils found themselves on the power play with under seven minutes to go in the second period already up a goal. New Jersey was able to capitalize just a few seconds later as Zach Parise knocked a shot off of Thomas and past the goal line.
At the end of the second period the Bruins were down a pair and it looked like it was going to be easy for the Devils to skate to seven straight.
The Devils came out hard but it was the Bruins who got on the board first on quite the ugly goal. Chuck Kobasew took the puck away from Clemmensen behind the goal and stuffed a wrap around attempt off the post. Kobasew got taken to the ground by a New Jersey defender and the Jersey D-man actually pushed the puck past the goal line.
Just like that the Devils lead was cut in half and with over 17 minutes left, we had a game. A game that became knotted up just a few minutes later. This time it was Marc Savard putting home a nice feed from Phil Kessel and the score was 2-2.
The unthinkable then occurred just a few minutes later. The Bruins had stormed back from a two goal deficit to take the lead with just six and a half to go when Dennis Wideman found the twine. Clemmensen looked like he never saw it and the sell out crowd was jumping.
In the final two minutes the Devils broke Boston's spirit when Patrick Elias deflected a Brian Gionta pass past Thomas. The teams were headed to overtime tied at three and the Bruins were headed to overtime for the fourth straight game.
This one didn't turn out as good as it did the last two times however. Langenbrunner picked up a loose puck in front of the net and swiped one under Thomas for a 4-3 win. With the win the Devils extended their winning streak to seven and moved into second place in the Eastern Conference.
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