"Patrice Bergeron knew the Vancouver Canucks would come out hard for their first Stanley Cup finals game in 17 years.

Bergeron just didn't know the Canucks were literally willing to eat their way past the Bruins if necessary.

During an end-of-period scrum after 20 minutes of the Canucks' series-opening 1-0 win last night at Rogers Arena, Vancouver forward Alex Burrows bit Bergeron's finger, according to the veteran center.

"He did. Obviously, he cut me a little bit on my finger," said Bergeron, whose known as the Bruins' most likely Lady Byng Trophy winner for his gentlemanly play. "But I'm not going to be here complaining about it, but I'll let the league do the job. But he sure did."

While Burrows was assessed a double-minor for roughing, which put the Bruins on the power play to start the second period, he was allowed to stay in the game.

"(The referees) didn't see it. We were speaking French, me and him, and I asked him why did he do it?" Bergeron said. "That linesman (Pierre Racicot) speaks French and his explanation was (Burrows) said I put my finger in his mouth and he had to do it. So I'll leave it at that. I'm sure the league is going to look at it."

Bruins coach Claude Julien said after the 1-0 loss that he had not seen the video. But Julien knew what his alternate captain told him had happened."