{"id":435910,"date":"2026-01-25T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:13:08","slug":"geekie-scores-2-bruins-rally-in-3rd-to-defeat-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435910\/","title":{"rendered":"Geekie scores 2, Bruins rally in 3rd to defeat Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minten scored at 13:55 to tie it 3-3, scoring on a backhand from the slot after his shot attempt bounced back to him off Canadiens defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alexandre-carrier-8478851\" title=\"Alexandre Carrier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Carrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the situations where it\u2019s there it\u2019s hard for goalies to read,\u201d Minten said about the backhand shot. \u201cSo you get it off and sometimes it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geekie scored 12 seconds later to put the Bruins up 4-3 at 14:07. He scored his second goal of the game, his 100th in the NHL and Boston\u2019s third on the power play, on a one-timer from the point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve played some good teams over the last little while but we didn\u2019t come out very strong today,\u201d Geekie said. \u201cBut to be able to come back in the third and put together a solid performance and at the end of the day get the two points, that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caufield, who gave the Canadiens three one-goal leads, has 10 points (eight goals, two assists) during his third five-game goal streak in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>But he put personal accomplishments aside in the wake of the loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s more important right now, it always is, and this was a huge two points that we needed,\u201d Caufield said. \u201cSo back to work next week and we\u2019ve got to learn from this one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minten scored at 13:55 to tie it 3-3, scoring on a backhand from the slot after his shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-435910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435910","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=435910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}