The lineup the Colorado Avalanche performed on Wednesday at Ball Arena won’t ever be confused with the group that captured the Stanley Cup final spring. But the Bruins can solely beat the group that’s in entrance of them, and that’s what they did, grinding down a sport however overmatched Avs group of call-ups and taking a 4-0 victory to kick off their three-game street journey.
Taylor Hall scored two targets and added an help to assist the B’s safe the 2 factors that have been simply sitting there for them. Linus Ullmark (23 saves) improved to 15-1 on the season together with his second shutout of the season.
After shedding in a shootout to Vegas on Sunday, the B’s improved to 21-3-1 and, as we inch towards Christmas, they’ve nonetheless have but to lose two video games in a row.
The Avalanche had a veritable who’s who of their star gamers on the shelf — Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog, Valeri Nichushkin, Josh Manson and Artturi Lehkonen, to call just some.
But Colorado was in a position to hold it even by the primary 20 minutes in a low-event first interval. The B’s had the higher possibilities, however Alexander Georgiev made some excellent stops (15 in all) to maintain it at 0-0.
The B’s did lastly forge forward at 4:49 of the second, however not earlier than the temperature rose a bit. Dryden Hunt leveled David Pastrnak with a open-ice hit within the impartial zone. It was a clear hit however, contemplating the recipient, Tomas Nosek deemed it was price some type of response. He went after Hunt, receiving an additional two minutes and a few photographs to the face for his efforts.
But after the B’s killed off the Nosek minor, Pastrnak gave a solution of his personal to the hit. From behind the online, David Krejci fed Pastrnak on the suitable circle and he blasted his 18th objective previous Georgiev on a one-timer.
The B’s doubled their lead at 9:50 on a reasonably, opportunistic play. Charlie Coyle brought about a turnover simply contained in the the Colorado blue line with the puck going to Trent Frederic, who gave it proper again to Coyle transferring down the suitable wing. Coyle made a terrific transfer round a Colorado defender and despatched an ideal move to Hall on the high of the crease for his tenth of the season.
The third line almost made it 3-0 when Coyle arrange Frederic, however he whistled his one-timer off the cross-bar.
The B’s needed to kill off a Nick Foligno high-stick later within the interval, which they did and took the 2-0 lead into the third.
In the third, Frederic saved that one-timer on the prepared and notched his sixth of the season, ripping a Hall feed previous Georgiev from the excessive slot at 6:24.
If there was any doubt left, Hall eliminated it by scoring his eleventh on a breakaway objective at 9:42 after Jake DeBrusk sprung him.
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