Series Overview
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Game 1
Boston 4Montreal 2
Game 2
Boston 5Montreal 1
Game 3
Boston 4Montreal 2
Game 4
Boston 4Montreal 1

Game 1 Bruins 4 Canadiens 2

Big advantage (Barry Chin / Globe Staff)

Big advantage

The good start, the two-goal lead, the momentum of the TD Banknorth Garden home crowd - all gone in the second period when the Bruins got off their game. Zdeno Chara brought it back with one big slapper in the third period.
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Searching for fight, Habs look punchy

Does anyone feel the power and mystique of Les Glorieux, or expect to see them take out that burning red CH iron and brand their iconic logo one more time on the oft-seared hides of the Bruins?

Game 2 Bruins 5 Canadiens 1

Bruins rout Habs (Barry Chin / Globe Staff)

Bruins rout Habs

The Bruins opened the game with a Marc Savard power-play goal. They added two more man-advantage strikes in the second period, with the final being a drop-dead-gorgeous strike by ex-Canadien Michael Ryder.
Bob Ryan

The sweet sounds of serenade

Last night's win was a beatdown of the highest order, with the Bruins doing all the things that win hockey games - especially playoff games.

Game 3 Bruins 4 Canadiens 2

B's deal Habs another blow (Globe Staff / Barry Chin)

B's deal Habs another blow

Chuck Kobasew (above, getting congratulated by David Krejci) scored an empty-netter with 37 seconds left to slam the door shut on the Canadiens. The Bruins now lead the first-round playoff series 3-0. (Boston Globe)
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Bruins poised to deliver KO punch

The Bruins have a chance to win the Stanley Cup. Perhaps their best chance to win one in the past 20 years, the greater number of which have been anything but great.

Game 4 Bruins 4 Canadiens 1

Brooming house (Globe Staff / Barry Chin)

Brooming house

It had been a decade since they had a chance to do it, but the Bruins sure didn't look out of practice last night as they celebrated a playoff series victory -- over the Habs, no less. The Bruins completed a four-game sweep of the Habs with an easy Game 4 win in Montreal.
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Hosts didn't have a ghost of chance

Time will tell if the Bruins have begun a new era, but they left last night finally able to put some closure to their long and festering wound of playoff disappointment.