B's Game Notes: BOS 5 COL 4

by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Oct 10, 2008 8:55 AM EDT

- B's take advantage of some shaky goaltending from Peter Budaj

- David Krejci gets the game winner

- Blake Wheeler gets his first NHL goal

- Michael Ryder gets his first goal in Black & Gold which also happens to be the 100th of his career

- Tim Thomas flipped and flopped his way to 35 saves

- Patrice Bergeron had 2 assists in his first regular season action since October 27, 2007

- Aaron Ward looked a little rusty: bad delay of game penalty with the B's already on the PK which lead to a goal about 2 seconds after they got back to full strength; awful give away in his own end leads to a goal by Cody McLeod; one broken pane of glass; -2 on the night

- Avs out-shot the B's 39 to 20

- "face-off specialist" Stephane Yelle goes 4 for 15 (27%) at the dot

- The B's got outplayed in almost every aspect of the game, but somehow found a way to win and really that's all that matters. I'll take it. The B's are undefeated!

NEXT GAME: Saturday @ Minnesota Wild 8:30 ET on NESN

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The B's got outplayed for sure, but they had that bend-but-don't-break quality that got them through a lot of tough games last year. They've really got to clean up their neutral zone passing, sometimes it seemed like 3-4 minutes had gone by without a Bruin having possession of the puck across the red line.

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by Tom on Oct 10, 2008 9:31 AM EDT reply actions