The Bruins have gotten some of their swagger back, after facing first the Sabres on Thursday night and the Rangers on Saturday afternoon at the TD Garden. The Bruins would defeat the visiting New York Rangers by a score of 4 to 2 on home ice.
The Rangers had an interesting roster – they suited up recent acquisitions Patrick Kane, Vladimir Tarasenko, and defenseman Niko Mikkola. However, they still iced only 11 forwards and 5 defensemen.
It is worthy of note that Ryan Lindgren and Tyler Motte are injured and K’Andre Miller was serving the final game of his expectora-suspension. Apparently the Rags did not want to use an emergency call-up.
On the home team, Newcomer wing Tyler Bertuzzi suited up in his first game as a Bruin, sporting the number 59. Slotted in to Taylor Hall’s regular spot at Charlie Coyle’s left side, he would also get his first point as a Bruin, setting up Charlie Coyle for a goal with a pass from behind the net to the slot. Trent Frederick would also get an assist on the play.
Tyler Bertuzzi making an instant impact in his @NHLBruins debut!
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Things got a little chippy, with Bruins giving Vincent Trocheck repeated sass,
Charlie McAvoy and Vincent Trocheck exchange pleasantries:
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(note that McAvoy yeet’s Vinnie’s glove to the corner after the 2nd collision) and this little fracas during a delayed penalty after a high but seemingly clean hit from Jacob Trouba.
I’m still not sure how Jimmy Vesey got mixed up with Derek Forbort, but it was not a discussion that was ever going to serve him well.
In spite of the shot count being very one-sided in the Rangers’ favor, the period was fairly even, and Linus Ullmark was excellent in net. The Bruins would exit the first period on the penalty kill, but leading 1-0
The Rangers would answer that goal *checks notes* …never, as noted sharpshooter Tomas Nosek would score a short-handed goal 30 seconds into the middle frame.
Tomas Nosek scores a shorthanded goal just 30 seconds into the second period on Hockey Day In Czechia pic.twitter.com/rSSm9flGIL
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However, Ranger Alex LaFreniere would break the shutout on another power play later in the period, shrinking the gap to 2-1.
That score would hold for a while, but the short-handed Rangers would predictably tire as the game wore on, and the Bruins would keep them from getting many shots. The Bruins did as they often do this season, put their opponent out of their misery in the 3rd, with goals from Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak coming late.
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Had some zip on that ziti. pic.twitter.com/8P6q3753p4
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Lafreniere would score a second time, but it was not enough. Bruins win 4-2, and in spite of some early rough play, no one from either team was obviously hurt!
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We had the snow turn to light rain on Saturday afternoon, so several inches of sludge to clean up. Lucky I’ve got a working snow thrower this year, because my butt is dragging. GH is in a walking boot pending ankle surgery, meanwhile Boomer is in the cone of shame after having ear surgery on Friday. And he’s been a groggy PITA, and miserable. My body is sore and I am exhausted 24×7.
On the plus side, the hockey was good. Of the 4 games I saw over as many days, both the Bruins & the Pride went 2-0. I’m bummed that I couldn’t make it to either Pride game – Friday was Pride Night (yeah it’s confusing), and they had awesome uniforms
Then on Saturday was the last home game of the regular season, which was both Denna Laing day and fan appreciation day.
But I had to take care of the dog and to a lesser extent, the woman, and also manage the snow, so it was a no go for me. Fortunately they have a good streaming setup with ESPN+!
I liked twitch, but this is easier for me to get on my biggest screen.
Those jerseys were very cool
I would wear one of those! Bad ass!
I’ve only watched on ESPN+. Like it a lot.
Good morning?
) and love the wave to his wife. Sweet.
What a great game! Gotta keep in mind that the Rag’s D is in disarray at the moment. Lindgren and Miller are key to their playoff hopes. Providing the Bs make it to the 3rd round, i think it will be the ‘Canes.
Shocked to find out that Nosek has hands (and butt
About 14″ of heavy snow friday into saturday. Lots of clean up, but still had time and energy to get out on the snow shoes. Found an otter slide in the snow. Down the mountain, along the trail and down into the river. Vary cool, but exhausting.
I suspect that the Rags could beat the Canes in a 7 game series, but not so sure they could beat both the Devils and the Canes in sequence. I presume that the Canes beat Isles/Sabres/Pens handily. Rags have glued together a bunch of high-profile skaters, which could gel into a pretty scary team that could beat anyone on a good day. But they were a mess on Saturday. I think they wrote off the game as a loss ahead of time, and opted to make sure they lock in the easy win tomorrow (vs Habs) instead.
The snow-shoeing sounds fun. That isn’t happening for me this year for several reasons. Boomer drags me through unplowed sidewalks and trails whenever possible. It’s impressive how tiring it is to trudge through the snow after only a short time!
This heavy snow was a slog. We opted to walk down the road about a mile today. We saw three cars! One was a state trooper who stopped to chat for a bit. He said he loves driving up our way.. (beautiful scenery, very little crime, what’s not to like?)