St. Louis has Boston Singing the Blues

Going into Monday's game with the Blues, it looked like a pure mismatch on paper. The best in the East against the worst in the West. However, at the end of the day, all be it a little controversial the St. Louis Blues walked away with a 5-4 SO victory.

Today, the Bruins decided to do a little rotating of the lines and Blake Wheeler got the bump to play with Marc Savard and Chuck Kobasew. Just 4:26 into the first period the move paid dividends as Wheeler found Kobasew who beat Manny Legace for an early lead.

After the early lead the Bruins began to get sloppy and just over three minutes later lost their lead as Brad Winchester slapped one past some bodies and into the Bruins cage.

The rest of the period went by with both teams looking equally as ugly and the teams hit the room tied, 1-1.

About seven minutes into the second, after the Bruins had gone unsuccessful on the Power Play, Jay McClement was able to pick up a pass on the right wing and beat Tim Thomas.

The Blues were able to carry the lead into the locker room. It wasn't a quiet end to the second period, however, as Zdeno Chara mixed it up with a few Blues players, receiving a double minor for his part.

The third period went along and it looked as though the Bruins were going to lose an ugly one to the Blues not being able to solve, Chris Mason.

However, with just over five minutes to play in the third the Bruins found themselves on a five-on-three. Just 21 seconds into the five-on-three, the new, best one-two punch on the Bruins connected. David Krejci found Michael Ryder who sniped one past Mason and the Bruins tied it up, still finding themselves on the Power Play.

Just 19 seconds later the Bruins took their first lead since early in the first period. PJ Axelsson wristed one through a big crowd and his shot had eyes, finding the twine, 3-2 Bruins.

With just 3:02 to go in the third period the Bruins looked like they had put it away when Chara wristed one through traffic and past Mason who didn't look like he saw the Chara shot. A two goal lead with three minutes to go at the Garden, against the Blues, no chance right? Wrong.

With 80 seconds remaining and the Blues on the Power Play thanks to a Stephane Yelle trip, David Perron found the goal and the Garden crowd suddenly had lost their spunk.

Then, with less than a second to play in regulation, the Blues broke the Bruins faithful hearts as David Backes put in a questionable goal and the Blues forced overtime with the black and gold. The goal was reviewed and the stood as called, a goal.

The teams went to overtime and nothing was decided there, so on to a shoot out they went.

Blake Wheeler hit the iron in the shootout and Axelsson was denied by Mason. Meanwhile, old friend Brad Boyes broke his old team's heart, beating Tim Thomas and ending the miserable matinee.

The Blues five, the Bruins four. Was this a questionable win for St. Louis with the way the last goal was scored? It was certainly close at best but in the end the Bruins didn't deserve walking out of the Garden with two points in hand.