\u201cMaybe a little bit of opportunity. Just being able to seize it a little bit better, too and take advantage of that. Just kind of trusting myself more in those situations,\u201d Geekie said of his goal-scoring growth. \u201cIt is easy to build confidence when you have confidence. I think over the last year, it\u2019s slowly been building.\u201d \u200b<\/p>\n
The B\u2019s displayed a new look to their top six on Friday, which featured Geekie on the second line with Steeves and Marat Khusnutdinov. The Czech trio of Mat\u011bj Bl\u00fcmel, Pavel Zacha and Pastrnak made up the first line.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think overall, it was just a better overall fit. We spread it out a little bit,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cI thought the Czech line was pretty good. The other guys were better, too. We just don\u2019t want to put everything on one line and put the pressure on them all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kings found the 1-1 equalizer with a shorthanded goal from Joel Armia at 13:03, which forced overtime. Geekie\u2019s ensuing tally sent the Bruins flooding onto the ice to celebrate the 2-1 win.\u200b<\/p>\n
\u201c[Geekie] worked even more this summer on his shot, on his release. Everything pays off. It\u2019s been nice to see that hard work gets rewarded. I believe in that, and he\u2019s one of them,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cThe way we played today, it was really outstanding. One of the better games we\u2019ve played.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beating the Kings carried a little extra meaning for Sturm, too, who spent seven years in the organization as both LA\u2019s assistant coach and the head coach of its AHL affiliate, the Ontario Reign. Friday was his first time back in the building as an NHL head coach.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u201cAnyone knows when you leave, you come back to your old stomping grounds, you want those two points badly,\u201d Lindholm said. \u201cI think we played our strong Bruins game tonight \u2013 kind of like the identity [Sturm] wants us to play. It was a perfect win that way.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n
The Bruins are back in action on Sunday in San Jose for an 8 p.m. ET game against the Sharks at SAP Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMaybe a little bit of opportunity. Just being able to seize it a little bit better, too and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-299558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}