Bruins get struck by Lightning

The Boston Bruins were in Tampa Bay on Monday night to play their second game in two nights. Over the first forty minutes of the game, it showed too.

Late in the first period, the Bruins caught a bad break when a dump in took a bad bounce and ended up on the tape on Vincent Lecavalier. Lecavalier fed a brilliant behind-the-back pass to Alex Tanguay who was able to finish.

In the second period, Tampa Bay fed off of their late first stanza goal and dominated Boston. The Bruins almost got out of the period unfazed, key word, however, is almost.
On the power play, it was Kurtis Foster who blasted a shot that trickled through Tim Thomas' legs. With the puck spinning on the goal line, Martin St. Louis beat the Bruins defense to the puck and slammed the biscuit into the goal.

Advantage St. Louis in the battle of former UVM teammates. The goal was a back breaker against Boston, coming with less than 12 seconds remaining in the period.

As the third period came and advanced it looked like Boston may have awoken. A few bad breaks for Boston, however, kept the Tampa Bay lead at two.

With 7:30 left in the third period, the Bruins finally found the back of the net. It was Marco Sturm who fired a shot past Lightning goaltender, Mike Smith, and Boston had life after being on life support.

With three minutes remaining in the game, Sturm was at it again, but this time his snipe rang the iron.

Boston had a late power play nullified due to a Mark Recchi slash and the game ended with the Bolts downing the B's, 2-1.

Boston has one game remaining until the Winter Classic on Friday at Fenway Park. Let the Ilya Kovalchuk rumors swirl yet again, as Kovalchuk and the Thrashers will invade the TD Garden on Wednesday night.