BROSSARD, Que. (AP) - They're hardly your father's Big Bad Bruins, and Boston is using its newfound playoff discipline to the Montreal Canadiens' chagrin.

Montreal's players gathered at the team's suburban practice facility for off-ice training Sunday after losing 5-1 in Boston the night before.

GAME: Boston Bruins (55-19-4-6) at Montreal Canadiens (41-32-4-7)
DATE/TIME: Monday, April 20 - 7:00 PM EST
LINE: -135, 115 TOTAL: 5.5
Playoff Series: Conference Quarterfinals; Boston leads 2-0
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Oddsmakers currently have the Bruins listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Canadiens, while the game's total is sitting at 5.5.

The Bruins scored three power-play goals Saturday night before the Canadiens enjoyed their first and only man advantage late in the second game.

Boston, which also stayed off the ice Sunday, has only been short-handed three times overall while building a 2-0 lead in the first-round series.

The Canadiens have yet to hold a lead through the first two games of the series. Boston has converted four of nine power-play opportunities, going 3-for-5 in Game 2.

The Bruins have successfully killed each of Montreal's three power-play opportunities through the first two games, including both in Thursday's 4-2 win in the series opener.

Boston also failed to yield a goal after Milan Lucic was assessed a match penalty for a blow to the head of Montreal's Maxim Lapierre that left the Bruins short-handed for the final 4:32 Saturday. On Sunday, the NHL suspended Lucic for Game 3.

And Colin Campbell, the NHL's senior executive vice president of hockey operations, dealt with it Sunday.

Bruins defenseman Steve Montador acknowledged that losing Lucic for any period of time would be a blow.

Boston has already lost defenseman Matt Hunwick, who is out indefinitely after having emergency surgery Saturday to remove his spleen.

Most of Hunwick's teammates visited him in the hospital and Julien spoke to him by phone.

For their part, the Canadiens sorely miss defenseman Andrei Markov, who has been out with a lower body injury and missed the first two games after he was sidelined for the last four games of the regular season. Markov skated Sunday with center Robert Lang, who is recovering from a severed Achilles tendon.

Gainey said he didn't expect either would practice with the team Monday, and that defenseman Francis Bouillon would not take part, either.

He was also undecided on which goalie would start Monday.

Carey Price started both games in Boston, though he was pulled Saturday after allowing five goals in the first two periods. Jaroslav Halak stopped five shots in the third.

Center Tomas Plekanec, defenseman Patrice Brisebois and right wing Matt D'Agostini were all taken out of the lineup Saturday, replaced by Bouillon - who left after four first-period shifts in an unsuccessful return from injury, right wing Sergei Kostitsyn and rookie defenseman Yannick Weber.
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