FINAL SCORE: Blues 3, Bruins 2 (OT)
IN BRIEF: Carl Gunnarsson scored 3:51 into overtime as the St. Louis Blues beat the Bruins 3-2 Wednesday night at TD Garden to even the Stanley Cup Final at 1 and earn the franchise its first victory in a Final. The series shifts to St. Louis for Game 3 Saturday night. BOX SCORE
HIGHLIGHTS:
CHARLIE COYLE GETS IT STARTED FOR B'S ON POWER PLAY:
ROBERT BORTUZZO GETS BLUES ON THE BOARD:
40 SECONDS LATER, JOAKIM NORDSTROM RESPONDS FOR B'S:
VLADIMIR TARASENKO ROOFS ONE ON BACKHAND TO TIE IT:
A PUNISHING SHIFT FOR NORDSTROM IN 2ND:
CARL GUNNARSON WINS IT FOR BLUES IN OT:
FROM JOE HAGGERTY:
*Matt Grzelcyk was elbowed in the back of the head with his head then slamming into the glass at the end of the first period in a hit that looked like it may have concussed him. Oskar Sundqvist was whistled for boarding on the hit and drilled Grzelcyk from behind in addition to throwing an elbow at the back of his head. Nasty hit and Grzelcyk needed help getting off the ice and to the dressing room. Clearly, the Bruins attackers are trying to take out Boston’s puck-moving defenseman with big hits. That officially started with that Grzelcyk hit.
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*Another goal for the fourth line with Joakim Nordstrom's score. It is amazing how good the fourth line has been throughout these playoffs, and particularly since Sean Kuraly made it back from injury in the Toronto series. Then, on a second-period penalty kill shift as the B’s were killing off a four-minute double minor high-sticking on Connor Clifton, Nordstrom stepped up and blocked a massive Colton Parayko bomb with the instep of his foot. He finished the shift and then limped to the bench to the massive applause from the TD Garden crowd.
*Tremendously physical, hard-hitting Game 2. It keeps getting nastier and nastier and feels very much like so many of the games between these two teams the past five-plus years with things just intensifying because they will be playing each other and nobody else for the next few weeks. Sammy Blais got blasted a couple of times by Bruins players, including one play where Blais tried to line up David Backes in front of the Blues bench and simply got dropped.
UP NEXT:
Game 3 @St. Louis: Saturday, 8 p.m., NBCSN
Game 4 @St. Louis: Monday, 8 p.m., NBC
Game 5 @Boston*: Thursday, June 6, 8 p.m., NBC
Game 6 @St. Louis*: Sunday, June 9 at 8 p.m., NBC
Game 7 @Boston*: Wednesday, June 12 at 8 p.m., NBC
*if necessary