Senators edge Bruins
Macarthur scores OT winner in Game 6 as Ottawa advances
Clarke Macarthur scored the winner 6:30 into overtime as the Ottawa Senators beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Sunday afternoon to win their Eastern Conference quarter-final series in six games.
The goal was preceded by Boston right-winger David Pastrnak’s holding penalty as he took down Macarthur, who scored on the rebound of Bobby Ryan’s shot 36 seconds into the power play.
Ryan and Kyle Turris also scored for the Senators and Craig Anderson made 28 saves.
Drew Stafford and Patrice Bergeron scored for Boston. Tuukka Rask had 26 stops.
It was the fourth overtime game of the series. Boston forced a Game 6 with a 3-2 double-overtime win Friday night in Ottawa.
Ottawa will face the New York Rangers in the conference semifinals. New York beat Montreal 3-1 on Saturday to win its quarter-final series in six games.
Ottawa didn’t register its first shot until Dion Phaneuf’s snapper with 12:18 to play in the first period and came up empty on three power-play chances after a trio of delay-of-game penalties on Boston.
Stafford scored Boston’s first opening-period goal of the series at 18:13 on his wrister from the right circle. It was Stafford’s second of the series, and it came on a power play after a tripping penalty on Mike Stone.
The Sens tied it with their own power-play goal as Ryan tipped a Derick Brassard rocket past Rask 3:26 into the second. The goal was Ryan’s team-leading fourth of the playoffs.
Turris silenced the sellout crowd of 17,565 at TD Garden as he beat Rask high stick side from the slot at 8:32 of the second to put Ottawa ahead 2-1.
Bergeron brought the hometown fans back to life and pulled the Bruins even 1:57 into the third, tucking in a loose puck after Brad Marchand’s shot bounced off Anderson. It was Bergeron’s first goal of the playoffs.
Ottawa took back the momentum by killing off a Mike Hoffman slashing penalty with 6:26 left in the third to preserve the tie.
Boston was without centre David Krejci, who left Friday’s Game 5 after taking a knee-toknee hit from Senators defenceman Chris Wideman late in the first period. Krejci also missed Games 1 and 2 with an upperbody injury.