Pittsburgh, PA

Brad Marchand recorded two goals while four other teammates scored as the Boston Bruins cruised to a 6-1 triumph over the Pittsburgh Penguins for a 2-0 lead in the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference Final at CONSOL Energy Center.

Nathan Horton, David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron and Johnny Boychuk also scored while Tuukka Rask tallied 26 saves for the Bruins, who can take a 3-0 lead when the best-of-seven series shifts to TD Garden Wednesday.

"You can't be satisfied with what you've done," said Boston forward Milan Lucic. "It's a big two wins, but two wins is just two wins. There's still a long way to go and they have more than enough character in that room to fight their way back."

Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma pulled Tomas Vokoun after Krejci's goal gave the Bruins a 3-0 lead at 16:31 of the first period and put in Marc Andre Fleury, who also allowed three goals. Vokoun recorded nine saves while Fleury had 14.

"We got down 3-0, I don't think there was a lot of fault in those three goals by the goaltender," Bylsma said. "So it's tough to evaluate given the breakdowns and the type of scoring chances that they scored on for both goalies."

Brandon Sutter scored the lone goal for the Penguins, who got no points from Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, Pascal Dupuis, Chris Kunitz and Jarome Iginla.

The seven combined for combined for 88 points in the first 11 games of the playoffs but they have no points and a minus-25 rating in the first two games of the series.

"Tonight we were just terrible," Crosby said. "There is no other way to describe it."

Marchand scored at 28 seconds of the first period and Horton added another at 14:28 to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead. Then, Krejci ended Vokoun's night with another tally at 16:31.

Sutter put the Penguins on the board but Marchand scored again with 8.1 seconds to play in the first to give the Bruins a 4-1 advantage.

"We've gotten away from our game," Bylsma said. "We've gotten off our game plan. We've deviated. We get down early today again and not too far after the second goal we get off kilter and deviate again from how we can play and what we need to do."

 

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