- Ken Dryden gets a nice ovation from the Bruins crowd as he comes out for the ceremonial puck from with Johnny Bucyk.
- I hope you all have RDS to watch this broadcast.
- The Canadiens should have worn their red jerseys for this game.
First period
- Kirby Dach takes the opening faceoff. No time to dwell on last night’s game-deciding high-sticking penalty.
- It’s not the all-out attack you sometimes see from a team after an hour-long celebration, so that’s good news for Montreal.
- Having said that, the Bruins are still the only team getting shots.
- Now the Canadiens have settled in and tested Jeremy Swayman a couple of times.
- RDS is having some audio issues, but even a garbled Pierre Houde is better than Garry Galley.
- One day the Canadiens will be good enough to get away with these pick plays that established teams do. One day.
- Mike Matheson fires a post toward an empty net, and hits the post.
- Cayden Primeau tries to close down Charlie McAvoy on the left side of the net. the Bruins defenceman keeps going around the net and tucks it in on the other side where no Habs players were covering. Arber Xhekaj needed to cut him off at the pass.
- Matheson loses his man at the blue line, and it seems that was it for him on that shift. Five seconds later it’s 2-0.
- No one else to blame on the third goal. That was all Cayden Primeau not able to make a save. It would have been nice if a defenceman could have prevented the second or third chance, however.
- Three goals in 1:10, the 10th time this season Boston has scored three goals in a game, and the first period isn’t over yet.
- Just when you think Montreal is on the way up, they put in a performance like this when no one seems to want to actually play defence.
- The Bruins just try to keep Montreal from generating anything in the final minutes, and go into the intermission with a 3-0 lead.
Second period
- Montreal gets an early power play to try to mount a comeback after the Bruins give the fans a souvenir.
- Or just allow a short-handed goal. 4-0 Bruins. Matheson poked the puck back toward the blue line … where he’s just come from to get the puck. Obviously the result was breakaway.
- That should be the last shift Matheson sees in this game. He’s now a -3, directly responsible for two of the goals.
- Montreal gets one back. Of course it’s Cole Caufield. Not his usual goal as he gets it from having the puck deflect off him while setting a screen in front of the net.
Arber Xhekaj banks one in off of Cole Caufield Habs down 4-1
— Scott Matla (@scottmatla.bsky.social) December 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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- Lane Hutson seems to think he’s the last man back and steps into a Bruins player charging past him, but Xhekaj was there. Hutson goes off for tripping Xhekaj and Mark Kastelic get 12 minutes in penalties for a scrum that ensues.
- The Canadiens will be down two defencemen for a couple of minutes.
- Trevor Letowski and Stéphane Robidas are having conversations over St-Louis on the bench. The head coach is just seething in between them.
- Dach whacks a t a loose puck, and gets several punches in the face for it.
- The refs just want to go home it seems. No penalties are handed out for a six-man fracas.
Third period
- 5-1 Bruins as neither Caufield nor Hutson recognized that Charlie Coyle was breaking to the net.
- Emil Heineman gets that one right back with a quick one-time snapshot.
- Caufield delays to let his defender slide out of the way, then scores his second of the night to make it 5-3.
Cole Caufield strikes again and it's a 5-3 game now
— Scott Matla (@scottmatla.bsky.social) December 1, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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- That’s his 16th of the season in game 24.
- Coyle tried to wrap the puck around like McAvoy had done in the first. Hutson was wise to the move that time.
- Brad Marchand heads to the box for slashing. A chance to make it a one-goal game.
- The centre lane opened for Matheson, and he hits his second post of the game.
- It’s Boston turn to go on the power play after Hutson is called for holding.
- Montreal kills off the penalty and has five minutes to find two more goals.
- Primeau heads to the bench, and it’s not long before Boston makes it 6-3.
- Boston scored more that three goals for the seventh time this season, twice versus Montreal.
EOTP 3 Stars
3) Some people have too much time on their hands
2) It;s nice to have some good years to compare this current era to
1) Your services weren’t required tonight, stripes
