Game Day Thread – Playoff Round 2 Game 1: Bruins “@” Bolts

The Bruins are “on the road” playing the Tampa Bay Lightning at their usual Scotiabank Arena, for the first game of a new playoff series.

Welcome to playoff round 2.

In round 1, the first game was delayed by a QUINTUPLE-OVERTIME game on the same ice between the Bolts & the Blue Jackets. The Bruins would win their own game in double-overtime, but David Pastrnak would injure himself, missing the next 3 games.
Karson Kuhlman, Jack Studnicka and Par Lindholm would get time on the roster, and Nick Ritchie would rotate out. Anders Bjork and Charlie Coyle would each get time on the top forward line in Pasta’s absence.
After game 2, Tuukka Rask opted out of the playoff bubble, citing a family emergency. The Bruins — with Jaro Halak in net and Dan Vladar on bench door duty — would win games 3, 4 & 5, sending the Carolina Hurricanes packing.

What will be the lines today?
David Pastrnak is still back, Tuukka Rask is still gone.
Nick Ritchie will rotate back in, restoring the Ritchie-Coyle-Bjork line that started this postseason.

Bruins Forward Lines
Brad Marchand	Patrice Bergeron	David Pastrnak
Jake DeBrusk	David Krejci	Ondřej Kaše
Nick Ritchie	Charlie Coyle	Anders Bjork
Joakim Nordstrom	Sean Kuraly	Chris Wagner
Bruins Defensive pairs
Zdeno Chara	Charlie McAvoy
Torey Krug	Brandon Carlo
Matt Grzelcyk	Connor Clifton
Bruins Goaltending
#41 Jaroslav Halak	(#81 Dan Vladar)

The Lightning started out a little bit rough, and it briefly looked as if the Blue Jackets might knock them out of the playoffs, but they managed to break through and win their series.

Tampa Bay Lineup:

Forward Lines
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Ondrej Palat — Brayden Point — Nikita Kucherov
Alex Killorn — Anthony Cirelli — Tyler Johnson
Barclay Goodrow — Yanni Gourde — Blake Coleman
Patrick Maroon — Mitchell Stephens — Cedric Paquette

Victor Hedman — Zach Bogosian
Ryan McDonagh — Erik Cernak
Mikhail Sergachev — Kevin Shattenkirk

Andrei Vasilevskiy
(Curtis McElhinney)