Kissin' the Senators

Sure, it sounds like the Chandra Levy story, but it is not. It IS, however, the story of the Senators-Bruins game, which ended in a three-all tie, akin to, as Vince Lombardi said, kissing your cousin.

There is no actual confirmation of anyone taking the ice in the first period. There were no goals and no penalties, which seems hard to believe. Hell, there were only fourteen shots on goal for that matter.

The second period, the Bruins broke the ice when Andy McDonald scored his twentieth of the year, unassisted, on a power play at 04:58. The man advantage followed a Jim Fahey hooking minor. Two minutes later, Andreas Holmqvist notched his first of the year to reup the game at one.

There was much skating after that, but eventually, Lars Jonnson grew bored, and buried the puck after a Brian Rolston assist at 17:33 to put the Bruins up 2-1. Rolston was whistled two minutes later for cross-checking in what would be a costly penalty.

To open the third period, Tomas Kopecky would be called for hooking - again, still not part of the Chandra Levy story - to give the Senators a five-on-three advantage. Twenty-seven seconds later, Brendan Morrison left Andrew Raycroft dazed and confused, beating him five-hole to knot the game at two.

At 7:24, Kopecky managed to get boxed up again, setting the stage for the final Senators goal of the night, Petr Nedved's twentieth of the year, a power play effort at 08:49.

Despite the Bruins apparently lack of concern - they took only six shots in the period, mostly due to the penalty killing effort they had to put forth - Martin Havlat managed to tie the game at three apiece at 10:29. There would be no more scoring in the period, though, and the two teams squared off for Oooooooooovertime. There, the Bruins finally mustered a bit of offense - outshooting the Senators four-to-one - but neither time found the backside of the net with the puck.

Despite the three-up score, the Bruins swept the game stars (McDonald, Havlat, Jonsson), as 13,168 fans went home slightly disgruntled.