ANAHEIM \u2013\u2013 Despite a comeback effort on Wednesday night at Honda Center, the Boston Bruins fell 4-3 to the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u201cFrustrating leaving here without a point,\u201d head coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cI think offensively, we did a good enough job today that could\u2019ve won the game. But defensively, it was just not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ducks got off to a quick start in the first period with goals from Jansen Harkins and Radko Gudas to take a 2-0 lead by the 6:29 mark. Boston soon got on the board while skating on the power play to pull within one.<\/p>\n
Pavel Zacha swung the puck up to Hampus Lindholm at the point, where he unleashed a shot that a net-front Morgan Geekie tipped past Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal at 14:58. It was Geekie\u2019s 13th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Anaheim responded with a power-play tally of its own from Ryan Strome at 13:47 of the middle frame to make it 3-1. But Mikey Eyssimont\u2019s fifth goal of the season made it a one-goal game ahead of the third.<\/p>\n
\u200bNikita Zadorov sent a stretch pass through the neutral zone that Eyssimont picked up at the blue line, carried down to the dot and wristed in for the 3-2 scoreline. The forward, who skated on the fourth line with Sean Kuraly and Jeffrey Viel, has three points in the last five games.<\/p>\n
Zadorov wore an \u2018A\u2019 for the Bruins on Wednesday in the absence of Elias Lindholm and Charlie McAvoy, who are both out with injuries.\u200b<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot. It means the organization, management and coaches, staff and players trust me,\u201d Zadorov said. \u201cI love being part of this. I take pride in it \u2013 being in the league and this team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM \u2013\u2013 Despite a comeback effort on Wednesday night at Honda Center, the Boston Bruins fell 4-3 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}