Bergeron Is a Winner for Bruins

Maybe Patrice Bergeron and goalie Andrew Raycroft are just too young to realize that the Boston Bruins aren’t supposed to do this to the Montreal Canadiens.

The rookies teamed to help Boston beat Montreal, 2-1, in Boston on Friday.

Bergeron scored 1:26 into overtime to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference playoff series. Bergeron, who is 18, has been a part of three of the Bruins’ five goals in the series.

“In our dressing room, I don’t know if anyone looks at him as a rookie. Both him and Andrew, they have a certain maturity level,” Bruin Coach Mike Sullivan said.

Two of the NHL’s original six teams, the Bruins and Canadiens have a long-running animosity. Montreal has won 23 Stanley Cups to five for Boston, and of the 29 playoff series between them Montreal has won 22, including a first-round ouster two years ago after the Bruins had the conference’s best regular-season record.

Raycroft stopped 25 shots. Michael Nylander scored Boston’s first goal and set up Bergeron for the winner with a nice tap-pass in the neutral zone to sent him toward the net without breaking stride.

Bruin forward Ted Donato broke his foot in the first period is expected to miss four weeks.

Colorado 5, Dallas 2 -- Peter Forsberg, Alex Tanguay and Milan Hejduk teamed for two goals and four assists in Denver.

Forsberg and Tanguay scored for the second straight game and had an assist each, and Hejduk added two assists to give Colorado a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven-series. Joe Sakic also scored for the second straight game and Dan Hinote added a goal.

Calgary 2, Vancouver 1 -- Jarome Iginla and Matthew Lombardi scored 50 seconds apart in the first period and Miikka Kiprusoff made 25 saves for the Flames, who evened their first-round playoff series in Vancouver.

It was the Flames’ first playoff win since 1995 and gives them home-ice advantage as the best-of-seven Western Conference series heads to Calgary for Games 3 and 4 on Sunday and Tuesday.

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Philadelphia Flyer forward Claude Lapointe was suspended by the NHL after he was placed into the second stage of the league’s substance abuse and behavioral health program.

Lapointe will be suspended without pay until cleared by doctors to return.