LIVEBLOG: Bruins-Canes, Game 6

9:30 p.m. FINAL BOSTON WINS 4-2 The Bruins have come back from being down 3-1 to force GAME SEVEN! We now turn you over to the Celtics and, in a little bit, the Sox, but before we go and start sending our best healthy thoughts to Marc Savard, there's one thing left to say: WOO!

9:29 p.m. Ten seconds left and we can all start gearing up for Game 7 on Thursday night.

9:28 p.m. Chara get a slapshot off his skate. Let's all say it now: SONOFA -- OW. We're down to one minute left We have no fingernails.

9:26 p.m. Cam Ward's on the bench. Empty net time. Two minutes left.

9:23 p.m. Less than five minutes in regulation. Someone muzzle Edwards so he doesn't jinx anything.

9:20 p.m. Edwards on Rutherford: "I don't know what he's smoking, but when it's legal, I want it."

9:19 p.m. See, this is how it goes. Mark Stuart says, "Yeah, you want to dance?" And then there's the first punch. DID YOU SEE THAT, SCOTT WALKER?

9:15 p.m. Soft tissue injury to the leg? Did we hear that properly? We were too busy freaking out over the delay of play penalty being called against the Bruins. And, in case you missed it like we did, Ray Whitney hit Aaron Ward in the face earlier. We're going Mama Bruins Bear on these 'Canes. Make 'em come back to Boston, B's. Let this Bostonist at 'em.

9:13 p.m. We'll wait patiently as you go back to Bostonist's main page to view the image of our Celtics liveblogging colleague. Amazing. We salute you, Rick.

9:11 p.m. Rick: Our little Marc Savard is likely very proud of that facial fuzz, thank you very much. Heh.

9:09 p.m. Montador hits Tuomo Ruutu hard. Super hard. Penalty play for the suddenly rejuvenated 'Canes.

9:07 p.m. Bruins 4-2 Sergei Samsonov takes advantage of a sloppy moment and slips the puck past Tim Thomas. We should note that we're biased, but we prefer the very simple WOO! of the Garden to the over-WOO-ificiation in Raleigh. Works for the locals, though, as the 18,000 fans suddenly woke up and started screaming.

9:05 p.m. Savard has headed into the dressing room. Everyone stop breathing again.

9:04 p.m. Carolina is now trying to slow things down. Telling, as they are typically fond of kicking things into high gear as often as they can. 'Canes fans are getting restless.

8:59 p.m. Savard is back on the bench. Everyone exhale now.

8:56 p.m. Marc Savard is on the ground, having taken a heck of a hit. Right leg appears affected, but he did not go to the locker room.

8:54 p.m. Sucker punch reference count in the last 60 seconds: 4. Play resumes with good pressure on Cam Ward.

8:44 p.m. Rick asks in the comments for details on the fight. Just little scappy stuff that broke up the action briefly. We haven't gotten into the good battle yet. No sucker punches, for instance, but then again, we don't think Walker was on the ice at that point. Shawn Thornton was quoted earlier today as saying (and we're paraphrasing here) that the team is focused on not doing anything stupid during the postseason, but that they're going to remember this. Translation: anytime, anywhere next season, Walker. Sleep with one eye open.

8:39 p.m. - END OF SECOND PERIOD - Boston 4-1 The Bruins didn't let their small lapse late in the first period continue into the second. The B's are playing aggressive and polished hockey while Carolina spent much of the second dragging. That said, shots on goal still gives Carolina the advantage - the 'Canes outshot the Bruins 8-6 in the second period. That said, the Boston shots found the back of the net, so do what you will. What is perhaps most telling at present is the fact that Carolina is beginning to get sloppy and give up penalties. Stars so far? Thomas, Bergeron (two assists thus far) and Recchi (one goal, one assist).

8:36 p.m. Power play for the Bruins, brought to us by Omega Insurance and Byron Bitz.

8:34 p.m. Aaaaand now we're fighting.

8:33 p.m. - Boston 4-1 KOBASEW!!!! The scrappy fellow finds the back of the net. Edwards threatens to ruin everything by saying that you can pencil in Game 7. Bruins fans everywhere scream for him to turn around three times and spit. Bostonist receives a text message: "WTF JACK."

8:29 p.m. Caroline inquires in the comments about what exactly to call Big Baby's faux hawk in training. We'll ponder this, but acknowledge that it's awesome and adorable from the safety of our seat at home, albeit the weirdest postseason hair since Arroyo in '04. Probably could be called Absolutely Terrifying if you're a 12-year-old kid with an obnoxious father. Er...we mean Dennis Wideman clangs off the post!

8:27 p.m. Bruins are kicking off a power play. Patrick Eaves for tripping. If we were playing at home, we'd be grooving. Tim Thomas comes up with a huge save after what is clearly a defensive moment of sheer stupidity gaffe.

8:24 p.m. You know that Edwards just loves to say Milan Lucic's name. We can imagine him Edwards waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror as he starts to shave and just lets the name roll off his tongue. "Miiiii-lan Luuu-cic." We now begin the Lucic Rocks Video Montage.

8:16 p.m. Boston 3-1 MARC SAVARD! MARC SAVARD! The Faux Hawk scores! It all comes together when Lucic skates through approximately 734 people before dishing it off to Savard for the Edwards Endorsed Huge Goal.

8:14 p.m. Our fortune cookie: Look around, happiness is trying to catch you. If by "look around," the powers that be mean "look at the large television in front of you," we're in business. Edwards says the next goal is going to be huge. In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

8:09 p.m. Second Edwards head scratcher. Something about how Walker was sitting in the electric chair when the governor called? We're hoping we misheard. We were as mad as the next person. Sure, we said some things, but we weren't quite at that point, Uncle Jack. And no, we don't want to think about whether our response would be different if Ward wasn't playing.

8:06 p.m. - Boston 2-1 Yup, Scott Walker is involved in the first Carolina goal. How much was that fine again? Matt Cullen finds net, Walker gets an assist and things are starting to heat up on the ice. Expect to start seeing some elbows and fists. Jim Rutherford is surely cackling and somewhere within the arena.

8:02 p.m. And we're back for the second period. Tim Thomas comes up big, which is good, as the Bruins penalty kill sure didn't.

7:52 p.m. We have footage of the Celtics and Magic warming up at the Garden. The fun officially begins in just a few minutes. Don't worry, Black and Gold - we'll be sticking with the B's in this post.

7:43 p.m. - END OF FIRST PERIOD - Boston 2-0 First period down. Clean, composed play from Boston. Tempers have been controlled well, save the Chara skirmish. He'll start the second period in the penalty box. Carolina outshoots Boston 11-9 in the period. And if you were wondering about Montador's rare goal, it was as unexpected as you thought: it's his second career playoff goal.

7:41 p.m. Aaaaand the first skirmish of the night, as Carolina thinks it's a good idea to mess with a 6'9 Slovak with a grizzled beard. Power play with less than a minute left in the first period. In commercial break news, we still laugh every time we see the cab driver singing Biz Markie in that Heineken commercial.

7:37 p.m. Tim Thomas demonstrates for the nth time this season that he has found a way to defy physics, defy gravity, defy the opposition.

7:34 p.m. We receive a text message as we're about to post: "Did Uncle Jack just say that?" Yes. That just happened.

7:33 p.m. First head-scratching Edwards quote of the night: "And Bergeron was almost squeezing his head off like a teenager squeezes a zit." During the commercial break, let's pay tribute to our color commentator.

7:30 p.m. Chara's diving to block shots, Thomas is diving to block shots and we still hate that there's a Ward on each team. It's been bugging us all series.

7:24 p.m. Carolina just put together a great cluster attack that was quick, intense and the reason why it looked briefly as if Tim Thomas was dosey-doeing.

7:20 p.m. Boston 2-0 Steve Montador!!!!! The rotation is gorgeous, and Montador nets it right when our Chinese food arrives. We cheer with the delivery guy.

7:18 p.m. The puck is flying on the ice, Jack Edwards sounds like he's working an auction and the crowd's loud. The B's are applying good pressure and it feels good to have Ward and the Carolina getting some --

7:16 p.m. Boston 1-0 The review ends, Boston takes the early lead. It feels good to have Aaron Ward on the ice when it happened.

7:13 p.m. Boston 1-0? WOO! Patrice Bergeron makes a sweet pass to Mark Recchi for what looks like a goal right before the net slides off. The refs are looking things over, but it looks an awful lot like it's a goal for Boston...

7:07 p.m. Did the young girl singing the anthem remind anyone else of Violet from Willy Wonka? Something about the wave and the grin. Now let's play some hockey. It's loud and it's about to get louder.

7:03 p.m. What Lucic really wants to say about what the Bruins need to do to get the job done tonight: "Kill, capture, destroy the enemy and tear things up. Remember Wardo!" He takes a more diplomatic approach: the same thing the team did the game before.