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May 16, 2011, Monday
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THE swift-skating Tampa Bay Lightning wasted little time taking control of the NHL Eastern Conference finals, beating the Boston Bruins 5-2 in Game 1 on Saturday.
Sean Bergenheim began a stretch of three Tampa Bay goals in 1:25 in the first period as the Lightning notched their eighth straight victory.
"We're not a team that's waiting to win games," Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher said after the Lightning grabbed home-ice advantage from the Bruins. "We like to push to win games."
Bergenheim, who scored just 14 goals in the regular season, got his NHL-high eighth of the playoffs at 11:15. Brett Clark connected at 11:34 and Teddy Purcell wrapped up the onslaught, both with unassisted goals.
The two goals in 19 seconds and three in 1:25 are club records.
"That's what we do," Bergenheim said. "We went in on the forecheck and we went in front of the net and we score that way."
Tyler Seguin, the No. 2 overall draft pick last year, scored for Boston with 4:01 left in the first period in his playoff debut.
Tampa Bay scored twice in the last 7 minutes - Marc-Andre Bergeron on a power play and Simon Gagne into an empty net - before Johnny Boychuk made it 5-2.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is tomorrow in Boston.
Both teams were coming off long layoffs after sweeping their previous series. It was the first game in 10 days for the Lightning and first in eight for the Bruins.
But the speedy Lightning, the 2004 Stanley Cup champions, showed little rust in an arena where they had won just four times in 35 games before beginning their first playoff series ever against the Bruins.
The Bruins, in the conference finals for the first time since 1992, made some costly mistakes. "We gave them some easy goals and that was more of our doing than it was theirs," Bruins coach Claude Julien said.
Bergenheim scored after Dennis Seidenberg tried to clear a rebound from a save with a skate after losing his stick. But the puck went right to Bergenheim and he beat Thomas from just in front of the crease.
"It was just a big battle in front of the net," Seidenberg said. "I lost my stick and I didn't know what to do without a stick and the puck at my feet. I kicked it to whoever scored the goal. I'm not sure."
It quickly became 2-0 when Clark skated all the way up the right side, passing at least two Bruins who let him go by, and scored his first playoff goal when he shoveled a backhander from the right side off Thomas' right arm.
"It takes a lot of energy from you" to allow two goals so close to each other, Boston's David Krejci said. "Somehow you've got to find a way to find the energy and go out there the next shift and try to ... maybe get a goal."
The third goal resulted from a giveaway from Bruins defenseman Tomas Kaberle. He had the puck behind his own net then skated to the left and lost control. An aggressive Purcell was there to take it away. Thomas stopped the first shot, but Purcell got his second goal when he put the rebound behind the NHL's regular-season leader in goals-against average and save percentage.
"We capitalized on some opportunities," Lightning goalie Dwayne Roloson said. "We got a couple lucky ones."
(AP)
Sean Bergenheim began a stretch of three Tampa Bay goals in 1:25 in the first period as the Lightning notched their eighth straight victory.
"We're not a team that's waiting to win games," Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher said after the Lightning grabbed home-ice advantage from the Bruins. "We like to push to win games."
Bergenheim, who scored just 14 goals in the regular season, got his NHL-high eighth of the playoffs at 11:15. Brett Clark connected at 11:34 and Teddy Purcell wrapped up the onslaught, both with unassisted goals.
The two goals in 19 seconds and three in 1:25 are club records.
"That's what we do," Bergenheim said. "We went in on the forecheck and we went in front of the net and we score that way."
Tyler Seguin, the No. 2 overall draft pick last year, scored for Boston with 4:01 left in the first period in his playoff debut.
Tampa Bay scored twice in the last 7 minutes - Marc-Andre Bergeron on a power play and Simon Gagne into an empty net - before Johnny Boychuk made it 5-2.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is tomorrow in Boston.
Both teams were coming off long layoffs after sweeping their previous series. It was the first game in 10 days for the Lightning and first in eight for the Bruins.
But the speedy Lightning, the 2004 Stanley Cup champions, showed little rust in an arena where they had won just four times in 35 games before beginning their first playoff series ever against the Bruins.
The Bruins, in the conference finals for the first time since 1992, made some costly mistakes. "We gave them some easy goals and that was more of our doing than it was theirs," Bruins coach Claude Julien said.
Bergenheim scored after Dennis Seidenberg tried to clear a rebound from a save with a skate after losing his stick. But the puck went right to Bergenheim and he beat Thomas from just in front of the crease.
"It was just a big battle in front of the net," Seidenberg said. "I lost my stick and I didn't know what to do without a stick and the puck at my feet. I kicked it to whoever scored the goal. I'm not sure."
It quickly became 2-0 when Clark skated all the way up the right side, passing at least two Bruins who let him go by, and scored his first playoff goal when he shoveled a backhander from the right side off Thomas' right arm.
"It takes a lot of energy from you" to allow two goals so close to each other, Boston's David Krejci said. "Somehow you've got to find a way to find the energy and go out there the next shift and try to ... maybe get a goal."
The third goal resulted from a giveaway from Bruins defenseman Tomas Kaberle. He had the puck behind his own net then skated to the left and lost control. An aggressive Purcell was there to take it away. Thomas stopped the first shot, but Purcell got his second goal when he put the rebound behind the NHL's regular-season leader in goals-against average and save percentage.
"We capitalized on some opportunities," Lightning goalie Dwayne Roloson said. "We got a couple lucky ones."
(AP)
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