21 October 1981: With defensive stalwarts Ray Bourque and Steve Kasper out of the lineup due to injury, the Bruins were likely to find it hard going to handle the Canadiens in front of their home crowd. After the two teams spent the first five minutes exchanging the puck in the neutral zone with shots hard to come by, the game looked as if it would be played at Boston's pace. But Larry Robinson found Mark Napier in the slot for a goal at 7:19 and the ice began to tilt in Montreal's direction. Boston probably would have take a one-goal deficit at the intermission, but Bob Gainey rifled one home from left circle with just over a minute left in the period to double the MTL lead.
The Canadiens more or less put the game on ice with two goals (Tremblay, Robinson) in the first seven minutes of the second period; Boston had a slight edge in play, but could not find space for their goalscorers (19 of their 32 shots would come from defensemen), and Denis Herron turned aside all of the long rubber thrown his way by the blueliners. The third period was the Pierre Show, as Mondou (2:13) and Larouche (11:28, 18:59) turned the game into a runaway. The 3rd and 4th lines for Montreal generated 18 shots on goal between them. FINAL: Montreal 7, Boston 0.
Contribution to the Facebook co-op replay . . .
 |
| Pierre Larouche (2 G, A, 5 SOG) puts it away for Montreal in the third |
0 comments:
Post a Comment