🇨🇦 Away Canadiens 13-13-7
2–3
Final
🐻 Home Bruins 21-9-1
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
🇨🇦 MTL 1012
🐻 BOS 1113

Canadiens at Bruins

Bruins beat Canadiens 3–2 at TD Garden on December 19, 2011.

🗓 📍 TD Garden, Boston 🏒 2011-12 🔁 Season series tied 2–2
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star 🐻 BOS
Benoit Pouliot
1 G
2 shots · 15:20 TOI
2nd star 🐻 BOS
Brad Marchand
1 G
2 shots · 18:18 TOI
3rd star 🐻 BOS
Tim Thomas
33 saves
0.943 SV% · 2 GA

🚨 Scoring

5 goals · in order
1st period
🐻 Benoit Pouliot Go-ahead 1st · 12:13
Assists: Rich Peverley · beat Carey Price
0–1
🇨🇦 Tomas Plekanec Tying 1st · 13:26
Assists: Michael Cammalleri, Travis Moen · beat Tim Thomas
1–1
2nd period
🐻 David Krejci Go-ahead 2nd · 02:42
Assists: Andrew Ference · beat Carey Price
1–2
3rd period
🐻 Brad Marchand 3rd · 14:14
Assists: Tyler Seguin, Patrice Bergeron · beat Carey Price
1–3
🇨🇦 Erik Cole 3rd · 18:46
Assists: David Desharnais, Max Pacioretty · beat Tim Thomas
2–3

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🇨🇦Canadiens
L1 Moen · Cammalleri · Plekanec 18:44
L2 Pacioretty · Cole · Desharnais 15:03
L3 Darche · Nokelainen · Eller 13:02
L4 Kostitsyn · Leblanc · Blunden 11:28
D1 Gorges · Diaz 22:25
D2 Subban · Gill 19:59
D3 Kaberle · Campoli 17:39
🐻Bruins
L1 Marchand · Peverley · Bergeron 18:18
L2 Seguin · Krejci · Kelly 16:24
L3 Pouliot · Hamill · Horton 14:15
L4 Paille · Thornton · Campbell 11:00
D1 Chara · Seidenberg 24:14
D2 Boychuk · Corvo 19:04
D3 Ference · McQuaid 15:10

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🇨🇦MTL BOS🐻
35 Shots on goal 31
24 Hits 26
13 Blocked shots 11
4 Takeaways 5
6 Giveaways 9
6 Penalty minutes 4
MTL shooting 5.7% (2/35) BOS shooting 9.7% (3/31)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🇨🇦Canadiens
Carey Price
28/31
.903 SV% · 3 GA · 58:59 TOI
🐻Bruins
Tim Thomas
33/35
.943 SV% · 2 GA · 60:00 TOI

🗺 Where the goals came from

5 of 5 goals located
Benoit Pouliot · 1st 12:13 · 0–1 Tomas Plekanec · 1st 13:26 · 1–1 David Krejci · 2nd 02:42 · 1–2 Brad Marchand · 3rd 14:14 · 1–3 Erik Cole · 3rd 18:46 · 2–3
MTL BOS
The net is on the right for both teams. Hover a dot for the goal.

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 1–1
Canadiens
Canadiens — tied after 1st: 3-6-5 (21% win rate, 14 games)
Bruins
Bruins — tied after 1st: 8-3 (73% win rate, 11 games)
After 2nd — 1–2
Canadiens
Canadiens — trailing by 1 goal after 2nd: 1-5-3 (11% win rate, 9 games)
Bruins
Bruins — leading by 1 goal after 2nd: 8-0 (100% win rate, 8 games)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Season series tied 2–2
Nov 212011 🐻BOS @ 🇨🇦MTL 1–0 Oct 292011 🐻BOS @ 🇨🇦MTL 2–4 Oct 272011 🇨🇦MTL @ 🐻BOS 2–1 Apr 272011 🇨🇦MTL @ 🐻BOS 3–4 OT Apr 262011 🐻BOS @ 🇨🇦MTL 1–2
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❓ MTL vs BOS, answered

Who won Canadiens vs Bruins on December 19, 2011?

Bruins won 3–2. The final score was Canadiens 2, Bruins 3.

Who scored for Canadiens?

Erik Cole, Tomas Plekanec.

Who scored for Bruins?

Benoit Pouliot, Brad Marchand, David Krejci.

How did the Canadiens goalie play?

Carey Price made 28 saves on 31 shots (.903 save percentage).

How did the Bruins goalie play?

Tim Thomas made 33 saves on 35 shots (.943 save percentage).

Where is Canadiens vs Bruins played?

At TD Garden in Boston, the Bruins home rink.

What is the Canadiens vs Bruins season series?

Season series tied 2–2 after 4 games.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🇨🇦 Canadiens
BeforeDec 17 😈NJD @ 🇨🇦MTL 5–3 AfterDec 21 🇨🇦MTL @ 🪶CHI 1–5
🐻 Bruins
BeforeDec 17 🐻BOS @ 🔔PHI 6–0 AfterDec 23 🐆FLA @ 🐻BOS 0–8
Also on December 19
👑LAK 3–2 🍁TOR 🦆ANA 3–5 ⭐DAL 🔔PHI 2–3 🏔️COL 🐙DET 3–2 🛢️EDM 🌲MIN 0–4 🐋VAN
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