Season Over For Bruins As Pens Win In Six

GAME 5

With the series tied at two apiece, the Bruins had some hope to cause the upset. But the Pens came out hungry on home ice and scored an early goal at 03:09 to get the crowd going. Martin Erat, who had an impressive 42 goals for the Pens during the regular season, was the one putting them 1-0 up. But before the game was over, he had recorded a hat-trick in the 5-2 win. The game was closer than that thought as the Bruins had an impressive second period in which they outshot the Pens 11-4 while scoring two goals by Rick Nash and Dominic Moore. But at the end of the day penalties killed the Bruins who gave up nine power play opportunities on which the Pens went 3-for-9. With the score close, the Bruins pulled Mathieu Garon with just over a minute to play. But with Mike Commodore in the penalty box, the Bruins weren't able to put much pressure on the Pens who could add not one, but two empty netters for the final score of 5-2. The Pens outshot the Bruins 28-24.

GAME 6

In this must-win situtation, the Bruins put their top line of Patrice Bergeron-Zach Parise-Rick Nash back together and also doubleshifted them on the third line to try and put pressure on the Pens D. But after the game 5 win, the Pens had their defensive game all set after only dressing 5 d'men to give their top defensive guys more ice-time. The Bruins were able to outshot the Pens on this day by 31-24, but Jonas Hiller was able to get the shutout after playing his best game of the series. Antti Miettinen grabbed the first two goals of the game while Simon Gagne finished the Bruins off late in the third to make it 3-0, which also was the final score.

SERIES OVER

All in all, the Bruins exceeded expectations just making it to the playoffs when considering the team was around the bottom 5 in the league before pulling off the Zach Parise blockbuster deal. We're a proud organization and making the playoffs is great for our fans. The Pens were too strong though and we never had any illusions, we knew we didn't have a team to compete for a long Cup run, but it was fun while it lasted.

Here's a look at some playoff numbers for the Bruins:

Most Points: Patrice Bergeron and Rick Nash (6)
Most Goals: Patrice Bergeron and Logan Couture (3)
Most Assists: Rick Nash (4)
Playoff Team MVP: Patrice Bergeron (3 goals, 3 assists, 6 points, 17.6 Sh% and 68.6 FO%)

And here's a look at some regular season numbers:

Most Points: Rick Nash (107)
Most Goals: Zach Parise (53)
Most Assists: Patrice Bergeron (70)
Top Goaltender: Andrew Raycroft (32 GP, 15-12-5, 2.67 GAA, .921 Sv%, 2 SO)
Regular Season MVP: Rick Nash (43 goals, 64 assists, 107 points, +34, 9PP, 2SH, 7GW)