Carey Price got his second shutout and Andrei Kostitsyn scored twice to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-0 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday in the deciding game of their first-round playoff series.
Price stopped 25 shots overall, including 11 shots in the opening period. He got his first playoff shutout in a 1-0 win in Game 4.
Mike Komisarek opened the scoring 3:31 in amid one of the first of countless roars from the raucous Bell Center crowd over the course of the evening.
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The Canadiens took control of the game in the second, outshooting the Bruins 17-6 while building a three-goal lead on a superb goal by Mark Streit midway through the period and Kostitsyn’s second goal of the series at 15:13.
Kostitsyn punctuated the win with his second of the game, a power-play goal with 2:02 remaining in the third. Sergei Kostitsyn scored with 7.3 seconds remaining.
Top-seeded Montreal will face Philadelphia in the second round, if the Flyers win their Eastern Conference quarter-final against Washington.
Otherwise, the Canadiens will face the New York Rangers.
Tim Thomas stopped 30 shots for Boston, which fell short in its bid to overcome both 2-0 and 3-1 series deficits for the first time in team history.
Capitals 4, Flyers 2
At Philadelphia, held without a goal for four straight games, Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the third period to lift the Capitals to a win over Philadelphia and send the series back to Washington for a decisive Game 7.
The Capitals have rallied back from a 3-1 hole and had a chance to win only the second Game 7 in franchise history last night.
The other one should be painfully familiar to the Flyers faithful: Dale Hunter scored an overtime goal that led Washington past Philadelphia 20 years ago this month.
The Caps have a shot to advance on home ice thanks to Ovechkin’s timely goals.
They are trying to become the 21st team in league history to come back from a 3-1 deficit and win a best-of-seven series.
Ovechkin never seemed overly concerned that he hadn’t scored a goal since the Game 1 winner. The Flyers had stymied and frustrated the NHL’s leading scorer so much that he wasn’t much of a factor the last four games.
After the Caps erased a 2-0 deficit late in the second period, Ovechkin made the Flyers pay early in the third.
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