Bruins Have 4 Fights and 6 Goals, Beat Stars

If you thought that last night's Bruins-Stars contest was going to be like the last time the Stars visited Boston, you were right. The Bruins and Stars had 3 fights in the first 4 seconds, and while they didn't compile 144 penalty minutes like they did back in November of 2008, the game was still plenty physical. The fighting began literally as soon as the puck dropped, as Gregory Campbell challenged that douchebag Steve Ott (paying him back for this hit when Campbell was still a Panther), a player who had delivered cheap hit after cheap hit back in '08 but refused to fight any Bruin who challenged him. Once that fight was over, Shawn Thornton challenged Krystofer Barch to make it two fights in two seconds. After Thornton pummeled Barch, Adam McQuaid literally destroyed Brian Sutherby to round out the early fighting. Three faceoffs, three fights, four seconds - quite a start.

But the Bruins weren't complacent with battering the Stars in fights - as proven by the two goals that followed. Milan Lucic potted his 21st of the year from David Krejci and Nathan Horton, followed by a beautiful Patrice Bergeron goal set up by Mark Recchi and a sick pass from Brad Marchand. Bergeron wasn't done in the first, however, as he scored again just about 8 minutes later to make it 3-0 Bruins (again from the Ageless Wonder and Marchand). Shawn Thornton rounded out the first period for the Bruins by scoring on an absolute bomb that rang the post and into the net. That made it 4 goals and 4 fights (Ference fought Adam Burish in there too) in the first 20 minutes. As Mad Jack Edwards said, "Are you having fun yet?"

After getting embarrassed in the first, the Stars put together a nice little comeback to rain on the Bruins parade as they scored the next 3 goals of the game to make it 4-3. Luckily for the Bruins, Tyler Seguin was looking to break his scoreless streak - and did so on a nice little turnaround snipe that found its way by Lehtonen's pads and into the goal. From there, the Bruins controlled play and capped off their scoring on a Brad Marchand empty netter (assisted by Patty Bergeron and the Ageless Wonder again).

Six goals. 4 fights. 91 combined penalty minutes and a victory for the Bruins. Does it get any better?