The Bruins took care of enterprise whereas concurrently conserving a possible playoff opponent reeling on Saturday on the Garden.
The B’s gutted out a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning to seize the Atlantic Division title – a foregone conclusion for a very long time now – and handed the fourth straight defeat to the three-time defending Eastern Conference champions.
Patrice Bergeron and Garnet Hathaway scored a aim every within the first two durations and Linus Ullmark (26 saves) shut the door the remainder of the best way. Ullmark made an enormous save on a Nikita Kucherov slapper within the waning minutes to protect the lead and win.
Losers of their earlier three video games, the Lightning tried to set a tone off the opening faceoff with some old-fashioned nastiness with Pat Maroon combating Hathaway and Jakob Lauko tussling with Ross Colton. Maroon began jousting with Hathaway earlier than the primary puck drop and so they have been each spoken to, however as soon as play began, it was a yard sale with gloves and sticks on the ice in every single place.
The Bolts would give the B’s the primary 4 energy performs of the sport however, because of the B’s brain-locked PP, they sustained solely minimal injury. With Maroon again within the field for yapping at referee Chris Rooney, the B’s took a 1-0 lead at 6:48 when Bergeron redirected a Brad Marchand move previous Andrei Vasilevskiy for his twenty seventh of the 12 months.
But not solely did the B’s not take management of the sport with their PP, it allowed the Bolts again within the sport.
With Tanner Jeannot serving a double-minor for high-sticking David Krejci, the B’s fiddled with the puck within the personal finish after which acquired stung with a shorthanded aim at 9:30 when Victor Hedman’s slapper ramped up off Charlie McAvoy’s stick and previous Ullmark’s glove hand.
The B’s had a 10-5 shot benefit however Vasilevskiy gave the impression to be on his sport. He preserved the tie sport when he made a terrific glove save on a Lauko likelihood from the underside of he left circle.
In the second interval, it was Tampa’s flip to squander a golden alternative. With Brandon Carlo already within the field for tripping, McAvoy went off for high-sticking, giving the Bolts a 5-on-3 for 1:10 with two of the B’s key penalty killers off the ice. They acquired nothing out of it.
The B’s then regained the lead with 2:28 left within the interval on a quintessential fourth line aim. Lauko and Hathaway battled with within the nook for puck and it will definitely squirted up the boards. Tomas Nosek acquired to it and mushed it as much as Matt Grzelcyk on the left level. Grzelcyk’s level shot produced a fats rebound off Vasilevskiy and Hathaway banged it dwelling to offer the B’s a 2-1 lead going into the third.
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