Montgomery's Gutsy Call on Tuesday Proved Beneficial for Boston

After surrendering the first goal to the Senators on Tuesday night, the Bruins tied it up on the power play because of a not often used tactic by Jim Montgomery.

At 11:04 of the first period, forward Tim Stutzle took a tripping penalty to put the Bruins on a 5-on-3.

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That's when head coach Jim Montgomery called a timeout just under nine minutes into the game to rest his top power play unit.


Just 29 seconds later, David Krejci tied it up at 1-1 with his 15th of the season at 11:33 of the period.


Boston kept the momentum as Jake Debrusk scored the go-ahead-goal at 15:52 off a ridiculous feed from Brad Marchand.


The Bruins didn't look back from there as they held on for a 2-1 win over Ottawa.

Another interesting fact that NESN's Billy Jagr pointed out, was that Montgomery was actually mad at himself for not doing it earlier in the season.

As per Jaffe:



Perhaps it can be traced back to the timeout call by Montgomery just nine minutes into the game, but how will we ever know?

Boston improved to an incredible 54-11-5 record to keep their record-setting pace.

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