By Paul Chiasson, APMichael Ryder, left, celebrates with teammate Chris Kelly after the overtime goal of Ryder, his second goal of the game, won the Bruins to win and even the series at 2-2.
By Paul Chiasson, APMichael Ryder, left, celebrates with teammate Chris Kelly after the overtime goal of Ryder, his second goal of the game, won the Bruins to win and even the series at 2-2.
Not that he has done a team any good so far.Michael Ryder (FSY) scored 1: 59 into overtime to give Boston a 5-4 victory against Montreal on Thursday night, tying the series in the first round 2-2. Ryder, the former extreme Canadiens who also scored in the second period, had Chris Kelly (FSY) pass behind the net and shot past Carey price (FSY).The Bruins won both games at Centre Bell after dropping the first two games of the Eastern Conference series at home. Game 5 is Saturday night in Boston. "We do not want to be down in the series 3-1, it would have been a hard if that happened, "said Ryder. "Once we got down 3-1 regrouped a little and got back to our game and he tied up and kept pushing from there. It is very exciting to score, but I'm happy that we won the game. That's all that matters now and it is good to go home to draw 2-2. "Kelly brought Boston even for the third time in the game, scoring with 6: 18 left in the third period. Wearing a cage in his helmet for the first time since he was a teenager, Kelly put a puck dropped at his feet in large to his second of the series.Patrice Bergeron (FSY) and Andrew (FSY) added goals for the Bruins. Tim Thomas (FSY) made 34 saves ".I thought he showed a lot of character coming back and fighting hard, "said Kelly. "Timmy made these great saves to give us a fighting chance and took advantage of it."Michael Cammalleri (FSY) had a goal and two assists for Montreal, and Brent Sopel (FSY), Andrei Kostitsyn (FSY) and P.K. Subban (FSY) also featured. The Canadiens, who held a lead of 29-12 in shots after goal 7: 47 of the second, Kostitsyn blew leads of 1-0, 3-1 and 4-3 ".We had the momentum in our game in the first half of the game, and then they took it with his game in the second half, "coach Jacques Martin said.Subban gave Montreal a 4-3 lead 1: 39 into the third on the first power play of Canadiens after Bergeron was called for hooking in 37 seconds. Rookie Defender shot through traffic sailed past Thomas at the top of the net, touching off yet another Thundering ovation in a night of oscillations in the highly charged atmosphere.Price stopped 30 shots, including a sprawling save glove despair in moments of Johnny Boychuk (FSY) after the go-ahead goal of Subban. Boston killed his second penalty late in the third when Dennis Seidenberg (FSY) was called for interference with left 219. "I don't think I stopped playing, "said Cammalleri. "We had some great chances to finish it. We had a really good game of power; We had a good chance in overtime for the first time. "Bruins coach Claude Julien used their timeout after goal Kostitsyn packed Montreal for two. ""We knew we could do it, said Bergeron. "We knew we had to be better and we had to just find a way to have a huge change and get the momentum back and we did that and we have a great goal and that was it."Reference gestured obscene — which he said happened accidentally — to the capacity crowd of 21.273 after he drove a slap shot past the second to draw the Boston to 3-2 at half price. "I think my glove got caught," said reference. "I can assure you that is not part of who I am or what I've always been. Seems terrible, I admit it. I completely apologise about his appearance. "Bergeron, who assisted on the goal, tied for 3 with 2: 56 left in the second.Brad Marchand (FSY) assisted on both goals.Sopel scored on slap shot from the right point 8: 13 in Montreal had a 15-8 advantage in shots in the first.Ryder silenced the crowd when he tied 2: 13 of the second. Ryder took Tomas Kaberle (FSY) long pass at the blue line and managed to beat the price with a shot at the top of the network behind defenseman Jaroslav Spacek (FSY).The Canadiens regained the momentum and Cammalleri brought cheer to a climax when he restored the advantage of a Montreal goal 6: 52 into the second.Kostitsyn made it 3-1 55 seconds later. The right wing Belorusian led to net Jam Tomas Plekanec (FSY) centering pass home past Thomas.Notes: Montreal went on to lose the series earlier twice opened 2-0 on the road. Ryder scored in overtime the Canadiens on the road in the second game of their first round series against Carolina in 2006. Montreal dropped the next four games. Bruins RW mark Recchi (FSY), who played for the hurricanes in that series, also was with the Canadiens when they faced the same fate against the New York Rangers in 1996. ... Kelly suffered a facial injury when he was pushed to the goal of Montreal by Scott Gomez (FSY) on Monday night. ... Henri Richard brought torch the Canadiens to begin the presentation times. Richard won a record 11 Stanley Cups with Montreal between 1956 and 1973. ... Jeff Halpern (FSY) made his debut for the Canadiens playoff after losing the last four regular season games and the first three of the series because of a lesion of the lower body. LW Benoit Pouliot (FSY) was left out of the lineup.
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