Fans go home broke, drunk, happy

After postponing Andrew Raycroft's "Razor Club" night for "Fifty Cent Beer, Ten Dollar ATM Fee" Night, the Boston Bruins welcomed a near-packed house that amazingly saw no destruction... except to the ego of Brent Johnson.

The fans saw Andrew Raycroft stop twenty-three of twenty-six shots faced, leading to loud cheers and a "Ray-croft" chant from the increasingly drunk crowd in the second period, as he stopped thirteen of fourteen shots faced.

The game got off to a rough start for Raycroft, though, as he gave up an early goal to Sheldon Keefe just one and a half minutes into the game. Keith Tkachuk returned the favor less than five minutes later, though, putting it in Johnson's five hole to tie the game.

The Bruins attack continued a minute and a half later as Shawn McEachern scored just his eighth goal of the year off a Michal Sykora assist to give the home club the lead. The beer continued to flow, and the red light spin, when Martin Havlat scored his twentieth goal of the year and first of the game off a Tkachuk touch pass with just under four minutes remaining in the period to give the first intermission score of 3-1.

The second period was relatively quiet, meaning it got even rowdier in the stands. As there was little scoring and almost no hitting, fans continued to trek for the fifty cent beers. Andrew Raycroft went and got one mentally in the last few minutes, as Sergei Samsanov put the puck around him with only twenty-two seconds left to close the score to 3-2.

In the third, Keith Tkachuk continued his recent outburst, scoring on the power play at 08:29 following a Brent Sopel boarding penalty. It was second goal of the game and his third multi-goal game in recent weeks.

The Bruins then shifted to prevent-mode, allowing only five shots in the period. Andy McDonald tacked on an additional goal for good measure to increase the margin to 5-2. The Bruins relaxed just enough as the minutes ticked away, giving up one last goal to the Habs and Martin Podlesak for the final tally.

Sixteen thousand, eight hundred seventy-two fans consumed more than 21,000 gallons of beer - or four pints each - and drained at least seven of the nine ATMs dry, meaning a substantial number of ATM fees were paid on the night.