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Johnny Boychuk, Brad Marchand and Milan Lucic scored in succession to break open a tie game and stake the Boston Bruins to a commanding lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the New York Rangers following Sunday's 5-2 Game 2 victory at TD Garden. Boston took a 1-0 series lead with a hard-earned 3-2 overtime triumph on Thursday, but left little doubt about the outcome of this one after reeling off three unanswered goals to support a stout effort between the pipes from Tuukka Rask. Marchand added an assist in the triumph, with Torey Krug delivering a goal and an assist for Boston and Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci each contributing a pair of helpers. Rask turned aside 35 shots to outshine counterpart Henrik Lundqvist, with the reigning Vezina Trophy recipient stopping just 27-of-32 chances as the Rangers fell to 1-5 on the road in these playoffs. New York, which also fell into an 0-2 hole before rallying to top Washington in seven games in the opening round, will attempt to bounce back when the series shifts to Madison Square Garden for Tuesday's Game 3. The Rangers did get a goal from Rick Nash, the talented sniper's first of this year's postseason, with Ryan Callahan also lighting the lamp in the loss.

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Johnny Boychuk broke a tie midway through the second period, and the Boston Bruins scored two goals in the third to beat the New York Rangers 5-2 on Sunday and take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The Americans are not leaving Stockholm empty-handed thanks to 19-year-olds Alex Galchenyuk and John Gibson.

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The Ottawa Senators will aim for their first win of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday, when they host the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 at Scotiabank Place.

The New York Rangers will try to bounce back from an overtime loss when they visit the Boston Bruins on Sunday for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Today's Medal Round Matches (IIHF Website and live scoring) Finland vs. USA (Bjugstad) 10:00 am Sweden (Markstrom) vs. Switzerland 2:30 pm Saturday's Semifinal Round Results Sweden (Markstrom: DNP) over Finland, 3-0 Switzerland over USA (Bjugstad: 0Pts -2 1SOG), 3-0 Tournament Stats Among Panthers Participants (through semifinal round) Nick Bjugstad, F (USA): 9GP 2A 2Pts -2 9SOG Jacob Markstrom, G (SWE): 5GP 76SA 71SV 1.58 GAA 2-1-0 eliminated Marcel Goc, F (GER): 7GP 4A 4Pts -4 14 SOG Tomas Fleischmann, F (CZE): 8GP 2G 2Pts even 18SOG Brian Campbell, D (CAN): 8GP 2A 2Pts +7 16SOG Tomas Kopecky, F (SVK): 8GP 2A 2Pts +2 14SOG And of course, feel free to discuss anything Panther-related, the Memorial Cup or NHL playoffs.

At the start of overtime, there was a feeling that the whole playoff series might hinge on what would happen in the next few minutes. The HP Pavilion crowd felt it. So did some of the Sharks, at least the ones willing to admit it.

The Sharks played half the game on guts Saturday night. But they finished in style. Down several players at various points of the game, they wound up finally finding the right formula on the power play - in the game's first two minutes and then in the very last second, in overtime, on Logan Couture's glorious goal.