Love this game. Love this game to death.
First Period:
Ah, the ol’ first period blues. Works every time.
Boston started sluggishly, not helped along by the fact their star rookie defender just so happened to take a flying question mark to the lower body and had to leave the game super early, and topping off a slow start was some boneheaded turnovers in their own end that meant Anton Khudobin had to come up huge in order to keep things orderly. They did hammer Antti Niemi with shots, but the only one that counted was off of a disastrous Kevan Miller turnover that gave Brandon Gallagher the puck and he wired the puck home to bring the Habs a 1-0 lead.