Dec 23, 2025, 10:03 PM ET<\/p>\n
BOSTON — Boston Bruins<\/a> forward Tanner Jeannot<\/a> and Montreal Canadiens<\/a> forward Josh Anderson<\/a> dropped the gloves at the opening faceoff of Tuesday night’s game, renewing the long-running rivalry between the Original Six teams who are jockeying for position in the Eastern Conference standings.<\/p>\n Jeannot, who entered the game with 53 goals and 435 penalty minutes in his career, and Anderson (154 and 582) fought for about a minute while teammates on both benches banged their sticks against the boards in approval. The Bruins forward landed several blows before his Canadiens counterpart went to the ice, drawing a big roar and a chant of “U-S-A!” from the TD Garden crowd.<\/p>\n Midway through the first period of the contest that Montreal won 6-2<\/a>, it happened again, with Boston’s Nikita Zadorov<\/a> and Montreal’s Arber Xhekaj<\/a> dropping their gloves off a faceoff in the Bruins’ end. In all, there were nine penalties for 30 minutes in the first, with Boston taking a 2-1 lead on a power-play goal with 18 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n The Canadiens entered the night tied for third in the East with 43 points, but a Boston victory would match them. The Bruins have won eight of the past 10 matchups between the teams, including a 3-2 win in Montreal on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n That game also featured several scuffles, including a fight at the opening faceoff. But the bigger problem for the Bruins had nothing to do with the fisticuffs: Star defenseman Charlie McAvoy<\/a> was hit in the face by a slap shot, causing him to miss almost a month.<\/p>\n In the end Tuesday, Boston left with more worries than a few fights. Montreal scored four unanswered goals in the third period and ran away with an easy victory. Zack Bolduc<\/a>, Cole Caufield<\/a>, Nick Suzuki<\/a> and Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a> authored those goals, two of which came on the power play.<\/p>\n The Bruins have now lost four in a row, and five of six. In their past two defeats, they have allowed 12 goals.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 23, 2025, 10:03 PM ET BOSTON — Boston Bruins forward Tanner Jeannot and Montreal Canadiens forward Josh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368131","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\/368131","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=368131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}