Bruins beat up the Habs and beat them 8-6 on the score board

If you didn't see this game tonight, watch this video by NESN, it was amazing, oh my!!! What a game tonight. There was a lot of goals tonight 14 and a there were a lot of fights as well, there were 187 192 minutes in penalties minutes. Wow! This is the way the Boston Bruins need to play to be successful, they need to show the opposition that they will not be pushed around and that they will push back, last week they beat the hell out of Dallas Stars and the Bruins won the battles tonight as well. The big bad Bruins are back. This blurb by NESN.COM really explains it pretty good.

"We're on opposing team but we spent some time together at a hockey camp a few summers ago and we were just at the All-Star Game together," Thomas said. "We're on friendly terms. It was business, but once business is done, it's done."

It wasn't done for the rest of the players though. Another melee saw David Krejci and Benoit Pouliot break away from the pack and square off, only to have Krejci dropped with a big punch. Andrew Ference and Travis Moen later exchanged blows in a spirited scrap, and while that was being broken up three other fights broke out simultaneously.

The Bruins had the decided edge in each of those bouts, with Shawn Thornton fighting through the refs to pound on Roman Hamrlik after a shot from Hamrlik ignited that powder keg. Johnny Boychuk worked over Jaraslav Spacek and Greg Campbell won a one-sided decision over Tom Pyatt during the same line brawl.

Between the punchups, the goals came fast and furious, with Boston matching a season-high output with eight goals to make it a truly enjoyable evening for the Bruins faithful.