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Moving on: Bruins eliminate Red Wings 4-2 in Game 5

Detroit Red Wings v Boston Bruins - Game Five

of the Boston Bruins of the Detroit Red Wings in Game Five of the First Round of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at TD Garden on April 26, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jared Wickerham)

Jared Wickerham

The Boston Bruins finished off one Original Six team and now they’ll prepare to face another, more familiar one in the next round.

The Bruins finished off the Detroit Red Wings with a 4-2 victory in Game 5. Zdeno Chara’s power play goal with four seconds left in the second period put the Bruins ahead to stay. Milan Lucic’s third goal of the series 4:27 into the third period put the game on ice and helped the Bruins advance in five games.

Henrik Zetterberg’s first goal of the series made it 3-2 with 3:52 to play, but a too-many-men-on-the-ice penalty 48 seconds later to Detroit helped seal the Red Wings’ fate. Jarome Iginla added an empty-net goal

Tuukka Rask ended the game with 31 saves and proved to frustrate the Red Wings even when Detroit was able to generate sustained offense. In the end, however, it was the lack of a penalty kill that ended the Red Wings.

The Bruins went 2-for-5 on the power play getting goals from Loui Eriksson in the first period and Chara in the second.

Detroit’s first goal came on the power play in the second period when Pavel Datsyuk put a rebound past Rask. Detroit’s best opportunities came with the man-advantage which says a lot about how well the Bruins played throughout the game.

From the get-go, Boston seemed to be in a different gear and a lot of the puck-luck that went against Eriksson in Game 4 was corrected in Game 5.

Boston moves on to the Atlantic Division Final where they’ll face their archrivals -- the Montreal Canadiens. It’ll be the 34th time the two have met in the playoffs.

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