The Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins are playing game 2 of their NHL playoffs series on Saturday afternoon and the matchup starts at 12:30 pm ET on NBC and comes as Montreal won the first game of the series and now they lead 1-0 and the game will be streaming from the NBC Sports Network Live Extra and will be from TD Garden and it could mirror what happened to the Bruins last series, as they lost the first game as well.
The Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings play later on Saturday, while Minnesota and Chicago play on Sunday afternoon with the Blackhawks leading the Wild 1-0 and the Rangers and Penguins play Sunday night after New York won in Pittsburgh with a goal in overtime from Derek Brassard. PK Subban scored the winning goal for the Canadiens and then had to head all the terrible racial things from Twitter and whatnot, but the two teams have put that aside and denounced that behavior and now they can look forward to playing.
Carey Price had a fantastic game in the first matchup and he has been key for the team all playoffs and he has now helped the team win five games in a row and they have yet to lose in the playoffs. The Canadiens won in four games over the Tampa Bay Lightning and now they have the momentum heading into the second game and winning here on the road again could be huge. The Bruins were the number one team in the league this season and they were the best team in the east and now they face off against the Canadiens for Game 2 and this has Patrice Bergeron coming in after putting up five assists in the playoffs and he had a great shot last game that was turned away by Price.
Subban is leading the team in scoring this playoffs and that has been huge for the team and now coach Claude Julien says that they are ready to get back into things after losing in overtime. The first two games of the eastern conference second round went into overtime and the Rangers ended up winning that game against the Penguins. The Rangers started the game with two goals in the first period before letting the Penguins tie it up in the second and then the game went into overtime and there was a crazy flurry at the end. Brassard appeared to score, but the goal was not given and soon after the Rangers punched one in, but afterwards the original shot was awarded to Brassard after the replay showed he clearly scored.
Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara almost was able to block the winning shot from Subban and now the Bruins are on the defensive and they are hoping to avoid going down 2-0 in the series after the first two games. The teams play again quickly in Canada and that game will be on Tuesday for Game 3 along with the Blackhawks and Wild, while the Rangers play on Sunday and then again on Monday and they have to play six games in nine days, making their win huge in Game 1.
