The Boston Bruins closed out the Montreal Canadians last night in overtime of game seven after being down 2-0 to start the series. I felt at times the Bruins were lucky to be in this series as the Speedy Habs were all over the Boston Bruins and beating the Bruins to the puck only to be stoned by the Boston Bruins all-world goalie Tim Thomas. At other times the Bruins looked like they were a much better team. I thought all around this was a sloppy series and the breaks for the most part went Boston's way as the Bruins won three games in overtime. The fact that the Bruins beat the Habs again in the Stanley Cup playoffs makes this win even more special.
Power Play outage
The thing that is hard to phantom is that he Boston Bruins didn’t score a power play goal the whole series against the Canadians and were able to win the series. Also the Bruins gave up a shorthanded goal tonight. The Bruins went 0-21 on the power play against the Canadians.
Andrew Ference to face the Wheel of Justice
Andrew Ference has a conference call with the NHL disciplinarian for this hit on the Habs forward Jeff Halpern during the third period of last night's game. Based on what some players have been allowed to get away with during the first round of the NHL playoffs, it's hard to imagine what kind of a punishment that Andrew Ference would get.
NESN.COM ---- Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference may not be with the Bruins on Saturday afternoon when they open up their Eastern Conference semifinal matchup in Philadelphia against the Flyers.
According to TSN's Bob McKenzie, Ference will have an 11 a.m. phone hearing with the NHL on Thursday to discuss his hit on Montreal's Jeff Halpern. The hit in question took place in the third period of the Bruins' 4-3 win over the Canadiens in Game 7 of their first-round series.
Halpern fell to the ice and eventually had to be helped off after apparently colliding with Ference's shoulder. The hearing will likely center around whether or not Ference leaned into Halpern to deliver the blow.
As McKenzie pointed out in a later tweet, it will be interesting to see what the league does for a guy like Ference who was critical of teammate Daniel Paille after Paille received a four-game suspension February for his hit on Dallas' Raymond Sawada.
