First Period
Five minutes in, and you could’ve heard a mouse fart in the Garden. There were a couple good rises in cheer for rushes by Boston’s top line and for Sean Kuraly’s stickhandling session into the slot; otherwise, not much emotion in the building. The organist picked things up at the first faceoff stoppage just before the quarter pole of the first frame.
You would be forgiven if you weren’t convinced that this was not a matinee game after all.
It took the fans in the Garden a good half-period to really get involved in the game.