BOSTON -- The Bruins sent Saturday's game against the Nashville Predators into overtime thanks to Milan Lucic's game-tying goal with 1:07 left in regulation. And as a result, Tim Thomas' two saves and Tyler Seguin and Patrice Bergeron's goals in the shootout sealed the deal on a 4-3 Bruins win.
The B's took a 2-1 lead, 2:55 into the third period, after Daniel Paille finished a nifty give-and-go with Shawn Thornton. Paille cycled the puck deep behind the net to Thornton, who then gave it right back to Paille as he cut hard to the net.
Paille quickly lifted it top-right as he dove to the ground, putting the B's up 2-1.
Patric Hornqvist tied the game at 2-2 midway through the third by finishing a Predators 3-on-2 rush when he received a Sergei Kostitsyn pass out front rom the left circle. Hornqvist went hard to the net and put a one-timer off Thomas' left pad and in.
Mike Fisher gave the Predators their first lead of the game when he finished a play started by himself with 3:32 left to play in regulation. Fisher came hard down the left wing and threw the puck out front. He skated around the net and picked up the puck that went through the crease, and quickly shot it through Thomas' legs for a 3-2 Nashville lead, before the Bruins tied it at 3-3, securing at least one point, which turned into two.
The game was tied at 1-1 entering that third period, thanks to Shea Weber's power-play goal midway through the second.
Weber took a one-timer slap shot from the left point that beat Thomas after Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid went to the penalty box for loosing his cool after a whistle.
Bergeron had given the Bruins a 1-0 lead after one period, when he finished off some hadd work on the penalty kill by Brad Marchand.
Marchand stole a puck deep in Nashville's zone while the Predators were on the power play, skated out from the corner to the slot, and dropped it off for Bergeron, who then beat Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot from the right circle, with four minutes left in the first period.