Bruins vs. Flyers: A tense series to sink your teeth into

Daniel Carcillo has made his NHL career beeing a tough guy, an antagonist, and a player who easily gets under the skin of his opponents. In fact, over the last three seasons, Carcillo has been amongst the league leaders in penalty minutes – 4th in the NHL this past regular season with 207 PIM; 1st in 2008-09 season with 254 PIM between Phoenix and Philly; and 1st in the 2007-08 season with 324 PIM with the ‘Yotes.

So having played in his fourth NHL season, the 25-year-old has been through virtually any and all physical altercations that the league’s best have thrown at him.

Except for an opponent biting him.

“Last time I have been bit was in grade school.” Carcillo said to the media post game tonight. “It is not a good feeling it is pretty cowardly.”

During the second period of Game 2 at the TD Garden, Bruins’ center Marc Savard took an inadvertent slash to Flyers’ net-minder Brian Boucher’s glove after the whistle, trying to dig the puck out for a rebound. Carcillo gave Savard a good lickin’ with a slash of his own, followed by Flyers’ defenseman Kimmo Timonen and a near pig-pile of Black, Gold and Orange sweaters. Amongst the rummage was when Savard apparently bit one of Carcillo’s digits.

Although there was no blood drawn, Carcillo was a bit surprised by the apparent bite.

“Whatever. He bit me.” Carcillo said. “Guys don’t bite. Men don’t bite.”

In just his second game back after missing nearly two months of action with a serious concussion, Savard said that he not only did not bite Carcillo, but it was Carcillo who was trying to tug on No. 91's teeth.

“He pummeled on my face. He pulled on my teeth, so I guess that’s biting when a guy tries and pull your front teeth out like his." said Savard. "I mean he embellishes stuff so obviously under the pile, you try pull out my front teeth, so if that’s a bite then I don’t know what to say.

Yeah, his glove tried to yank them out [front teeth]. I don’t know if you want to look like him but he pulled on them, that’s for sure.” said Savard. “I just tried to get out of there.”

“Oh yeah that’s what I try to do when I get into a scrum is try to pull people’s teeth out.” Carcillo said. “We were playing a physical game. Emotions run high and stuff happens during the game.”

But either way, Savard was the one called for the original slashing penalty on Boucher and was sent to the sin bin for two minutes -- as the Bruins take a 2-0 lead in this series, which heads to the City of Brotherly Love for Games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and Friday night.

And what did the ref have to say after the alleged Mike Tyson-like impersonation?

“Nothing." Carcillo said. "He didn’t see it. ”