Bruins show fight in late comback win in Ottawa

The Boston Bruins rallied from two goals down for a 4-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

Boston trailed with under two minutes to go in the game and pulled goaltender, Tim Thomas for the extra attacker.

Mark Recchi, playing in game number 1,500 of his NHL career scored to make is 3-2 Boston with 1:28 to play. David Krejci, then potted his first goal of the season on a great feed from Derek Morris with just 22 ticks left.

The Bruins then received a shoot out goal by Patrice Bergeron, and Tim Thomas stopped Alex Kovalev, Daniel Alfredsson and Jason Spezza for a Boston victory.
The other goal scorers in the game were, Milan Michalek, Mike Fisher and Daniel Alfredsson for the Senators, and Blake Wheeler for the Bruins.

The Bruins have acquired five points out of a possible six over their last three games without Milan Lucic and Marc Savard, and have to be happy with that number.

That being said, there were a lot of break downs in the game that Boston will need to work on, with four straight off days coming up.

One major area for improvement will be the Bruins power play. The power play was 0-4 against Ottawa, and is clicking at less than a 17% rate. It will be a tall task to get the man advantage team back on track with Savard, likely being out through November.

Boston's passes have been dangerous on the power play so far this season, and because of this have given up three short handed goals.

Alfredsson opened the scoring midway through the second with a short-handed goal tonight on a Boston power play. Mike Fisher took the puck from the side boards and found Alfredsson, who beat Thomas top shelf to give Ottawa an early lead.

Luckily for Boston it did not come back to bite them in the end, but work needs to be put in on the power play so the Bruins are no longer victimized like they were by Ottawa.

The star of the game was Tim Thomas, who made some fantastic saves. Thomas made 27 saves on 30 Senator shots.

Another player who deserves a great deal of credit for the Bruins comeback win is Derek Morris. Morris assisted on both of the final two Bruin goals which came in the last 1:28.

That leads us into my games three stars.

3) Mark Recchi - He was playing in game number 1,500 of his NHL career and scored the Bruin's second goal. This was the goal that gave the Bruins the idea that they could win the game.

2) Derek Morris - He assisted on Boston's last two goals and played an overall solid game. Morris made a great slap pass to David Krejci through the seam to assist on the game tying goal with just 22 seconds remaining.

1) Tim Thomas - Thomas made a great save to rob Alfredsson tonight and was a wall in net for Boston. Thomas made some key saves to keep Boston in the game and put them in the position to make a comeback.

The Bruins will return to Boston for a brief two game home stand, where they will play New Jersey on Thursday and Edmonton on Saturday. afternoon.