BOSTON – For the second time in the first three games of the Stanley Cup Final, Stephen Walkom and Dan O'Rourke will serve as the referees as the series shifts to Boston for Game 3 at TD Garden on Monday night.
That pair also worked the series opener last Wednesday, which Vancouver won 1-0 at Rogers Arena. That game featured 14 penalties and 12 power plays, with each team going 0-for-6 on the man advantage. But even with that many calls, Walkom and O'Rourke still missed Alexandre Burrows' bite on Patrice Bergeron, though the Canucks agitator was given an extra minor for roughing in that scrum at the end of the first period.
Walkom was also one of the refs for the penalty-free Game 7 against Tampa Bay, working that night with Dan O'Halloran, and worked Game 3 of that series, which Boston won 2-0 in Tampa. He also worked Game 4 of the Montreal series (a 5-4 Bruins win in overtime) and Game 4 against Philadelphia (a 5-1 Boston win).
O'Rourke worked Game 1 of the Tampa series, which the Bruins lost 5-2 at the Garden, and Game 5, which Boston won 3-1 at home. He also worked the opening games of each of the Bruins' first two series, a 2-0 home loss to Montreal and a 7-3 win at Philadelphia.
The linesmen for Game 3 will be Steve Miller and Pierre Racicot, the same duo who worked Game 1 of this series and Game 7 of the Tampa series.
