• Milan Lucic continues his torrid start to the season — potting his eighth goal (8-7-15, plus-10), notching points in 15 of the Bruins’ 18 games this season, and has  put the Black-and-Gold up 1-0 after the first
• Shwan Thornton dropped the mitts with Panthers’ Darcy Hordichuk for his thrid fighting major of the season. Hordichuk got a few decent shots in, but Thornton’s rights gave him the victory…by a landslide
• Tuukka Rask remained busy through the first, seeing 16 Florida shots through the 20 minutes of action. Panthers’ defenseman Jason Garrison rung one off the post; David Booth was half robbed and half missed a one-timer, as he took a pass and shot it right at the sliding Rask
• Mark Stuart and Dennis Seidenberg both have two blocked shots, and Michael Ryder and Brad Marchand each have two shots on goal a piece for the B’s
• Boston will be shorthanded for the first 13 seconds of the second period; killing off a Blake Wheeler high-sticking penalty
• The B’s killed off a Marchand goaltender interference call midway through the first; now having killed-off 17 of their last 24 times shorthanded
• Johnny Boychuk logged 3:47 of TOI in his first game back to action after missing the last 10 games

Goals:
Boston: Lucic (8) (Horton 8, Bergeron 9)
Panthers: 0

SHOTS ON GOAL:
Bruins: 11
Panthers: 16

PENALTY MINUTES:
Bruins: 9
Panthers: 5

POWER PLAY:
Bruins: 0/0
Panthers: 0/1

HITS:
Bruins: 5
Panthers: 4

FACE-OFFS:
Bruins: 7-for-18 (39%)
Panthers: 11-for-18 (61%)

PK:

Campbell–Recchi / Wheeler–Paille / Bergeron–Caron
Chara–Ference (Boychuk)/ Stuart–Seidenberg