Bruins stay alive with 2 OT win over Senators
OTTAWA -- Sean Kuraly scored his first two NHL goals, his second at 10:19 of double overtime, as the Boston Bruins staved off elimination by defeating the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Friday night at Canadian Tire Centre.
Kuraly scooped in a loose puck to end the game as Ottawa's lead in the best-of-seven first-round playoff series is now 3-2.
Game 6 will be played Sunday afternoon in Boston.
David Pastrnak had the other Bruins' goal.
Mark Stone scored his first goal in 20 games for the Senators and Jean-Gabriel Pageau also found the back of the net in regulation.
Tuukka Rask made 41 stops for Boston and Craig Anderson stopped 36 shots in the Ottawa net.
The Senators had two power plays in the final 5:08 of the third period but couldn't capitalize.
The Bruins looked to have the game won with 5:35 left in the first overtime, when Kuraly broke in down the left wing and fired a shot that Anderson stopped before the loose puck was put into the net by Noel Acciari.
After a review, the goal was wiped out when it was ruled Kuraly was guilty of goalie interference.
Less than a minute later, the Bruins had another close call around the Ottawa net, but Pageau pulled the puck off the line.
Pageau gave the Senators a 2-0 lead on a breakaway 30 seconds into the second period, beating Rask with a low shot between the legs. It was his first goal of the playoffs.
Pastrnak scored his second goal of the postseason to cut the gap in half at 8:40 of the second period. He was in the right place at the right time to fire the puck in the open side after Brad Marchand missed on a wraparound attempt.
Kuraly tied the score at 17:05 with his first NHL goal, tucking the puck through a small opening left by Anderson while he was just stepping out from behind the net.
The Senators were up 19-12 in shots at the end of two periods.
Stone scored in on a breakaway for the only goal of the first period at 11:19. To beat Rask, Stone pulled the puck to his backhand, delayed long enough to make sure the goalie was down, then flipped the puck over his pad.
The Senators outshot the Bruins 10-6 in the opening 20 minutes.
NOTES: Senators C Chris Kelly played his first game of the series, replacing injured LW Tom Pyatt. Kelly played six seasons with the Bruins and was a member of their 2011 Stanley Cup winning team before re-signing with Ottawa in the offseason. He played all 82 regular-season games for the Senators. ... Senators G Craig Anderson had a shutout stretch of 100 minutes and 32 seconds before David Pastrnak's goal. ... The Bruins scratched C Ryan Spooner, who has played all but six regular-season games for them over the past two regular seasons. He was replaced by C Sean Kuraly, who played the first two games of the series.