Ottawa, Ontario
Marchand scored off the rebound of Patrice Bergeron’s shot.
Game 2 is on Saturday in Ottawa.
Frank Vatrano added a goal for Boston in his NHL first playoff game, and Tuukka Rask made 26 saves. Bobby Ryan scored for Ottawa, and Craig Anderson stopped 23 shots.
Trailing 1-0 and without a shot since the first period, the Bruins had two quick ones and Vatrano beat Anderson from the high slot on the second to tie it at 4:55 of the third.
Boston was outshot 12-0 in the second and was fortunate to trail by just one.
Despite having played the least amount of any player in the first period with just 2:20 of ice time, Ryan was creating chances every time he was on the ice and nothing changed in the second.
Midway through the period, Ryan took the puck off Adam McQuaid and went to the net where Rask made the initial save, but Ryan pushed his way past Zdeno Chara to the net and scored on his own rebound.
The Bruins had a scare when Colin Miller left the game early in the second after being hit by Mark Borowiecki. With an already depleted blue line, the Bruins can hardly afford to lose another defenseman. Miller returned to the game later in the period.
Defenseman Charlie McAvoy made his NHL debut in the series, in a defensive pairing with 2009 Norris Trophy winner and 19-year veteran Zdeno Chara. The 19-year-old first-round draft pick played only four games in the AHL after his sophomore season at Boston University before signing a three-year deal with the Bruins on Monday.
Wednesday’s result was different from their regular-season meetings, when the Senators went 4-0 against Boston. Ottawa had won six straight matchups between the teams.
Rangers 2, Canadiens 0
Montreal
Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Friday night at Bell Centre.
Michael Grabner added an empty-net goal with 1:10 left to play.
Montreal outshot New York 16-5 in the first period, but couldn’t beat Lundqvist.
The Canadiens are looking to a avenge a six-game loss in the first round to New York in 2014, a series in which Carey Price was injured in the opening game on a hit from Chris Kreider. This time, Kreider pulled up when barreling toward Price in the first period.
Fired up by 1960s pop star Ginette Reno’s national anthem, the Canadiens were all over New York in the opening period, but it was the Rangers who struck first 9:50 on only their third shot.
Montreal’s Tomas Plekanec won a draw in his own zone, but fourth-line winger Glass pounced on it and lifted a backhand from the slot over Price’s shoulder.
Penguins 3, Blue Jackets 1
Pittsburgh
Murray was scheduled to get the nod in the playoff opener but was a late scratch after suffering a lower-body injury during warm-ups. Fleury withstood an early push by Columbus, and the Penguins responded by pulling away from the untested Blue Jackets.
Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist for Pittsburgh. Nick Bonino and Bryan Rust also scored, and Evgeni Malkin assisted on Rust and Kessel’s goals in his first game back after missing the final three weeks of the regular season because of an upper-body injury.
Matt Calvert scored for Columbus in the third period, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves.
Game 2 is Friday night in Pittsburgh.
Fleury spent most of the season gracefully receding into the background while Murray took over as the No. 1 goalie after helping lead the Penguins to a championship last spring.