Bruins, Dafoe punch out Ottawa

[ Game summary ]

By Nancy Marrapese-Burrell, Globe Staff, 1/18/2002

At 11:16 of the third period last night, the Bruins and Senators took a page out of the old-time hockey history books when the game - at that point lopsided in Boston's favor on the way to a 5-2 win - gave way to an old-fashioned donnybrook complete with goaltenders duking it out.

When it was sorted out, goalies Byron Dafoe and Patrick Lalime were tossed with game misconducts (and a total of 17 minutes each in penalties). Hal Gill and Bill Guerin joined Dafoe in the dressing room and Ottawa's Shane Hnidy and Chris Neil were sent off to keep Lalime company.

From the 9:40 mark, when Martin Lapointe vented his frustration on Ottawa defenseman Wade Redden, to 14:02, when Boston's resident enforcer, P.J. Stock, fought Andre Roy, the Bruins were assessed 69 minutes in penalties while the visitors amassed 79.

Stay tuned, because the Northeast Division rivals meet again next Thursday - in Ottawa.

Up until tempers and territorial wars took over, there actually was some hockey played.

If Monday night's dull evening in Washington was a nonskating, clog-the-neutral-zone affair that was supremely unentertaining, last night was quite the opposite. The Bruins and Senators skated well and had plenty of offensive chances.

The first period was scoreless as Boston outshot its guests, 16-7. Both teams had flurries but goaltenders Dafoe and Lalime turned back everything.

The Bruins took the lead at 5:33 of the second when defenseman Nick Boynton tallied his third goal of the season. Boston's Benoit Hogue, playing his first game since coming over from Dallas, started the play when he won a draw from Ottawa's Ivan Ciernik in the right circle. Boynton got the puck at the point and unleashed a slapper that beat Lalime under the crossbar.

The Bruins made it a two-goal advantage when Glen Murray tallied his 21st goal.

Sergei Samsonov got the puck deep in the Ottawa zone. He fired it to Gill. The big defenseman ripped a shot from just inside the blue line and Murray tipped it. The puck hit the ice first and then bounced up and over Lalime at 7:48.

The Senators cut the lead in half while shorthanded. With forward Chris Herperger off for high-sticking, the Bruins went on the power play but couldn't do anything.

Instead, it was Ottawa who cashed in as a result of a good individual effort by Mike Fisher.

The Bruins regained their two-goal bulge with only 7 seconds remaining in the period. Rob Zamuner dished a pass from the right circle across to Brian Rolston who drove it home for his 22d goal. It was Rolston's first goal in seven games, and just his second point in his previous six outings.

The Bruins pulled away early in the third period when Jozef Stumpel, just recovered from the flu, beat Lalime from the left circle at 3:09 for his sixth goal.

Gill made it a four-goal cushion when he scored at 11:16 as all heck was breaking loose.

Marian Hossa closed out the scoring at 19:31.

This story ran on page E1 of the Boston Globe on Friday, January 18, 2002.
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