Early on in the second period with the Bruins trailing, 1-0, Mark Stuart greeted Anze Kopitar at the Kings’ blue line with the night’s most jarring hit, slamming his shoulder into the chest of the Kings’ top-line center and dropping him to the ice just as Kopitar was taking a pass from defenseman Peter Harrold. (Full article: 626 words)

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