{"id":366014,"date":"2025-12-24T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366014\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:41:10","slug":"montreal-canadiens-thump-boston-bruins-in-fight-filled-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366014\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens thump Boston Bruins in fight-filled affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Zachary Bolduc<\/a> scored to give the Canadiens the lead as Montreal scored four goals in a five-minute span to snap a third-period tie and run away from the Boston Bruins<\/a> 6-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Sammy Blais, Ivan Demidov<\/a>, Cole Caufield<\/a>, Nick Suzuki<\/a> and Juraj Slafkovsky also scored for Montreal. Jacob Fowler<\/a> stopped 26 shots for the Canadiens in a game that started with fisticuffs but ended with the Bruins going down meekly.<\/p>\n

Marat Khusnutdinov<\/a> and Alex Steeves<\/a> scored in the first period to give Boston a 2-1 lead, but Demidov tied it two minutes into the second when he swept in to steal a bad pass from Nikita Zadorov<\/a> to David Pastrnak<\/a> and skated in on Jeremy Swayman<\/a> for the goal. <\/p>\n

The Bruins had a goal waved off in the final seconds of the second period and it was still 2-2 when Zadorov broke his stick while trying to clear the zone and left the puck for Bolduc.<\/p>\n

The Canadiens winger passed the puck and then followed up to knock home a rebound to make it 3-2. Caufield scored on a power play 99 seconds later, and Suzuki scored with a two-man advantage.<\/p>\n

Swayman stopped 23 shots for the Bruins. <\/p>\n

Boston killed a four-minute power play when Steeves was sent off for a high-sticking double minor late in the second, and then appeared to take the lead with 5 seconds left in the period, but Elias Lindholm<\/a>\u2019s goal after a scramble in the crease was waved off for goaltender interference.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Canadiens face Tampa Bay on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Bruins visit Buffalo on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Jimmy Golen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Zachary Bolduc scored to give the Canadiens the lead as Montreal scored four goals in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-366014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}