{"id":436139,"date":"2026-01-25T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:52:09","slug":"morgan-geekie-scores-100th-career-goal-boston-bruins-come-back-to-beat-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436139\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Geekie scores 100th career goal, Boston Bruins come back to beat Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Morgan Geekie<\/a> scored his 100th career goal with 5:53 remaining to break a tie and give the Boston Bruins<\/a> a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Geekie\u2019s winner, his second goal of the night, came on the power play just 12 seconds after Fraser Minten<\/a> fired a backhander that beat Montreal goalie Samuel Montembeault to tie the game at 3-3.<\/p>\n

Viktor Arvidsson<\/a> also scored a goal and Charlie McAvoy<\/a> had three assists for Boston, which has won 10 of its last 12 and seven straight on TD Garden ice. Jeremy Swayman<\/a> had 22 saves.<\/p>\n

Cole Caufield<\/a> had his second career hat trick for Montreal while Montembeault made 17 saves. Caufield now has 29 goals this season and is the first Montreal skater to have a hat trick in Boston since 1997. <\/p>\n

Caufield\u2019s first goal extended his point streak to five games and came at 6:36 of the opening period. His second goal while on the power play broke a 1-1 tie in the second period and featured a one-timer from just below the left circle. <\/p>\n

Geekie\u2019s first goal squared it at 2-2 and marked the third of four power-play goals between the teams in the second period. David Pastrnak<\/a> carved out some space before delivering a pinpoint pass that Geekie hammered home from close range.<\/p>\n

Caufield\u2019s third goal gave the Canadiens a 3-2 lead and was a carbon copy of his second \u2014 below the circle and on point with his shot into a tight corner on the power play.<\/p>\n

Boston was 3 for 4 on the power play while Montreal was 2 for 3 on the man advantage. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Canadiens: Host Vegas on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

Bruins: Travel to face the New York Rangers<\/a> on Monday night. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Brendan Mcgair, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Morgan Geekie scored his 100th career goal with 5:53 remaining to break a tie and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-436139","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\/436139","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=436139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}