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“They scored more goals than the Blackhawks!”

Well, yeah, but there are reasons why the Boston Bruins won Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final over the Chicago Blackhawks, 2-1 in overtime, to even the series at 1-1. Here are five:

1. The Bruins’ Worst Was Their First

If you’re going to completely suck in a Stanley Cup Playoff game, better it’s the first period on the road than, say, overtime. The Blackhawks embarrassed the Bruins in the opening frame, outshooting them 19-4 and taking a 1-0 lead on Patrick Sharp’s goal. As Jaromir Jagr said after the game: "If someone watched the first period they would say 'Give (Chicago) the Cup right now."'

But the Bruins leveled the ice in the second period, and arguably outplayed the Hawks in the last 33:48 of the game before Daniel Paille’s goal ended it.

No. 1 Star: Tuukka Rask, Boston Bruins

If you watched the first half of this game, you know the Bruins had no business being in it, let alone winning it. But Rask was outstanding in a first period where the Blackhawks outshot the Bruins 19-4, holding Chicago to just one goal, and when Boston finally got on the board, suddenly they were in a tie game. Rask made 33 saves in the Bruins' 2-1 win and is far and away the biggest reason this series is tied at one game apiece heading back to Boston.

No. 2 Star: Daniel Paille

It was a big night for Paille, who was in on both Boston goals, assisting on Chris Kelly's game-tying marker and ending the affair in overtime by beating Corey Crawford with a sweet shot. Here's that goal again, from the perspective of the net cam:

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Daniel Paille has been one of the Boston Bruins’ unsung heroes throughout the postseason, giving them strong minutes as a member of their checking line and a surprising amount of offense.

On Saturday night, he scored the most important goal of his season.

Paille’s tally at 13:48 of overtime gave the Bruins a 2-1 win and a 1-1 series tie with the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final. He earlier assisted on Chris Kelly’s goal.

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The Bruins had several strong chances in overtime, including Jaromir Jagr dinging off the post behind Crawford. (And his reaction was priceless.) They needed a break, and got one from Blackhawks forward Brandon Bollig.

At 41 years old, Jaromir Jagr's got a few years on his Boston teammates. Heck, he's old enough to have been some of their childhood heroes, as evidenced by 27-year-old David Krejci naming the Czech icon as his favourite player growing up in CBC's pregame montage.

That was funny enough, but what really makes the clip, via Will Ackland, is when Jagr immediately follows Krejci and names his own favourite player: himself.

That Jagr's a badass. He should have ripped off his lapel mic and dropped it.

Let it never be said that Jaromir Jagr isn't a confident man. Apparently, he was a confident child as well.

In Jagr's defence, who would he have named as his favourite player anyway? When hockey was invented, he was nine.

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As expected, seeing as it leaked almost a week ago, P.K. Subban has indeed won the Norris Trophy awarded to the defenseman with "the greatest all-around ability in the position." It's a PHWA joint.

That sound you're hearing is the low moan of Marc Bergevin, who could have signed a pre-Norris Subban to a five-year, $25 million deal. Now he has a Norris winner that will need a new contract at the end of next season. That's unfortunate.

Subban narrowly beat out Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild, finishing with 66 first-place votes to Suter's 65, and just 36 more points overall.

The NHL, on Subban's merit:

Subban topped NHL defensemen in scoring, recording 38 points (11 goals, 27 assists) in 42 games as the Canadiens won the Northeast Division crown and posted the League's fourth-best record. The 24-year-old Toronto native also led defensemen in power-play scoring with 26 points (seven goals, 19 assists), helping Montreal post the League's fifth-best success rate with the man advantage (20.7%). Subban ranked second on the Canadiens in points, plus-minus (+12) and average ice time per game (23:14).

And here's how voting from the Professional Hockey Writers' Association shook out.

It's worth noting that, while the top three finalists just so happened to receive the most votes, the top five is rounded out by more defensive-minded defencemen Francois Beauchemin and Zdeno Chara. That's somewhat heartening.

But the most interesting thing to me here is that Andrei Markov received a first-place vote for the Norris. Somebody in the PHWA didn't even feel that Subban was the best defenceman on his team. How does that happen?

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Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals won the 2012-13 Hart Memorial Trophy for regular-season MVP, his third most valuable player trophy and first since 2009.

Center Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ovechkin and center John Tavares of the New York Islanders are the three finalists for the Hart, awarded “to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team,” as voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.

From the NHL:

Ovechkin tallied 32 goals in 48 games, including 23 in his final 23 contests, to become the first three-time winner of the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy as the NHL’s goal-scoring leader. He also finished third in the League in points (56), first in power-play goals (16), first in power-play points (27) and first in shots on goal (220), leading the Capitals to an 11-1-1 record in April and their fifth Southeast Division title in the last six years. Ovechkin recorded points in nine straight games March 17-April 2 (10-5—15), including a five-game goal streak March 17-24, and tallied his 30th goal of the year April 20, becoming the ninth player in League history to score 30 or more goals in each of his first eight seasons.

We cast our ballot for Ovechkin.

On June 22, 2012, the Philadelphia Flyers traded Sergei Bobrovsky to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

On June 15, 2013, exactly one week shy of the first anniversary of that unfortunate decision, Bobrovsky has won the NHL's Vezina trophy. According to the league's 30 General Managers, he was the league's best goalie in 2013.

The NHL explains Bobrovsky's worthiness thusly:

Bobrovsky (21-11-6, 2.00 goals-against average, .932 save percentage, four shutouts) backstopped Columbus' late-season surge that kept the club in contention for a playoff berth until the final moments of the season. The first-time Vezina finalist appeared in all but one of the Blue Jackets' franchise-record 12-game point streak (8-0-4) from Feb. 26 through Mar. 22 that spurred the club's move up the standings. He won eight of his last nine decisions from April 9-27, posting a 1.64 goals-against average and .945 save percentage in that span. Bobrovsky ranked second among NHL goaltenders in save percentage and sixth in goals-against average.

Meanwhile, the Flyers acquired Steve Mason in a trade and are poised to buy out Ilya Bryzgalov.

Here's how the voting shook out:

1. Sergei Bobrovsky, CBJ 110 (17-8-1)
2. Henrik Lundqvist, NYR 55 (3-12-4)
3. Antti Niemi, S.J. 46 (6-4-4)
4. Craig Anderson, OTT 22 (3-1-4)
5. Tuukka Rask, BOS 12 (0-3-3)
6. Jimmy Howard, DET 9 (0-0-9)
7. Ray Emery, CHI 6 (1-0-1)
8. Corey Crawford, CHI 5 (0-1-2)
9. Jonas Hiller, ANA 3 (0-1-0)
10. Niklas Backstrom, MIN 1 (0-0-1)

As you can see, it wasn't all that close. Bobrovsky received the majority of first-place votes, and twice as many votes overall as runner-up Henrik Lundqvist.

Meanwhile, further down the ballot, you did not read that wrong: Ray Emery received a first-place vote. Let's just assume that was Paul Holmgren's way of abstaining.

By the way: while accepting his trophy with the help of his translator, Bobrovsky was also given the Best-Dressed Joffrey Lannister Lookalike Award.