The Bruins and the Devils met for the final time this season, and right off the bat things seemed to be going the Bruins way. Shots aplenty, Kinkaid being forced to make all sorts of difficult saves. Marchand and Bergeron were working the NJ players over. Physicality abounded as the two sides tried to get a feel for each other's strategies (or at least in New Jersey's case, curl up and hope not to die).
And then Patrice Bergeron high sticked Reid Boucher. And the Bruins surrendered the first goal on the Penalty Kill as Travis Zajac managed to find a hole in the Boston Defense and caught Rask off guard.