The Canadiens threatened to bury the Bruins in the opening period, outshooting the visitors 18-4 and scoring twice on goals by Mario Tremblay and Bob Gainey. But Marco Baron limited the damage, and Boston gradually began to climb back into the game in the middle period.
Bourque and Peter McNab scored in the second, on either side of a Robert Picard goal that gave Montréal a 3-2 lead headed into the final period. Terry O'Reilly tied the score very briefly two minutes in, but Pierre Mondou put Les Habitants back in front less than a minute later, a lead they would hold for 17 minutes. With time running down, and Baron out of the Boston net, Don Marcotte finished off a last-gasp goalmouth scramble with the game-tying goal as just twenty-seven seconds remained on the clock.
The overtime period opened slowly, with neither team having much in the way of real scoring chances until Middleton took Wayne Cashman's pass in the right circle and fired off Rick Wamsley's pads; the ricochet came right out to Bourque (7 SOG, 2 hit, 3 takeaways) at the top of the circle and he made no mistake to give the Bruins the lead in the Series despite being outshot 48-27. FINAL: Boston 5, Montréal 4.
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| Ray Bourque scored 4:54 into overtime to lift Boston to an improbable win |
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