Bruins enter break after shootout win at Florida
By Bud L. Ellis
Since losing 10 games in a row, the Boston Bruins have righted the ship just in time.
Boston won again Saturday night, entering the Olympic break on a four-game winning streak. Mark Recchi scored in the eighth round of the shootout, the Bruins outlasting the Florida Panthers on the road 3-2.
Boston moves into seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings with 65 points, two points behind sixth-place Philadelphia and one point ahead of eighth-place Montreal.
David Krejci and Marc Savard kept the Bruins alive in the shootout, scoring when they had to in order to extend the shootout after David Booth and Kamil Kreps had scored for the Panthers.
In regulation, Krejci scored to tie the game at 1-1 at 15:54 of the first. Down 2-1, Recchi knotted the score at 11:44 of the third.
The Bruins return to the ice at home March 2 against Montreal.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 12:10 pm by bud
Tags: Boston Bruins, David Booth, David Krejci, Florida Panthers, Kamil Kreps, Marc Savard, Montreal Canadians, National Hockey League, Philadelphia Flyers
