Bruins, 2-1

Goals by Phil Kessel and Matt Hunwick gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the first period. But a Jason Blake strike at 17:51 made it a 2-1 game after 20 minutes.

Dominic Moore helped set up Blake's goal with some heavy forechecking behind the Boston net, preventing Hunwick and Dennis Wideman from clearing the puck. With Tim Thomas leaning the wrong way, Blake's bad-angle goal found the back of the net.

* There aren't many players who can make passes like Marc Savard did on Kessel's goal. Savard had the alertness to recognize there wasn't a direct way to get the puck to his linemate. So Savard banked his pass off the wall, which Kessel retrieved in stride.

* Thomas made a pair of pad stops early in the first to keep the game scoreless. First, Thomas kicked out a slapper by Carlo Colaiacovo, then stuffed Ian White's follow-up bid.

* P.J. Axelsson, praised by Claude Julien before the game for doing the little things that go unnoticed, had one of those plays in the first period. When Zdeno Chara jumped up in the play and the Leafs gained possession of the puck, Axelsson broke back to cover for his captain. Axelsson sprinted through the neutral zone, then turned to man up Anton Stralman, preventing the defenseman from taking a pass and possibly putting a shot on goal.

* Despite getting his first NHL goal, Hunwick hasn't looked crisp in his own zone. Hunwick played tentatively in the first on defense.