Bruins storm back from three down to win in SO, 4-3

The Boston Bruins and New York Islanders met tonight at the TD Garden and the Bruins made it seem like it was going to be another stinker.

After forty minutes of hockey, Boston was in a 3-0 hole and the crowd was not letting them forget that. Boston heard the boo birds out in full force as they made their way to the locker room.

Then, a turning point. Half way through the third period, the Bruins were still down 3-0, but it wouldn't stay that way for long.

Marc Savard started the Bruin scoring party, with his second of the season. Savard had a puck kick his way and lit the lamp. The assists went to Zdeno Chara and Milan Lucic, and the momentum started to build.

Then, with 4:25 to go in the third period the Bruins got their second strike, courtesy off Byron Bitz. The "Cat" came through the middle and with his back turned to the goal put one past Dwayne Roloson. The puck looked to deflect off of Islander defenseman, Freddy Meyer and past Roloson.

Less than two minutes later Boston evened the score thanks to Matt Hunwick. Hunwick had the puck back at the blue line and threw the puck towards the goal. The old adage of throwing the puck towards the net paid off, as his knuckle puck found some twine.

With 2:34 to go, Boston had tied the game at three, and the TD Garden crowd almost blew the roof off of the building.

The final two and a half minutes ticked off the clock and the teams went to overtime. The OT stanza moved rapidly, and with no goals a shootout was in order.

Blake Wheeler lead the shootout off with a goal, but Rob Schremp quickly knotted the score. After misses by Patrice Bergeron and Brad Park, Marc Savard netted a nifty backhander for the 2-1 shootout lead.

With the Bruins leading by one in the shootout, Tuukka Rask needed to stop Kyle Okposo for a Bruin victory. The end result, was a Rask pad save and a 4-3 (SO) Boston victory.

With the win, Boston moves to 2-2 and have earned some much needed momentum going into the Columbus day tilt with the Colorado Avalanche.

The final line on Rask in his first start of the season was, 35 saves on 38 shots.

Your player of the game is Marc Savard, with the Bruins first goal in regulation and game winner in the shootout. We'll have more tomorrow.