View Link<\/a><\/p>\naaaaand the Bruins lose 4-3.<\/p>\n
Game Notes<\/p>\n
Your TOI leader was Hampus Lindholm, who logged 22:01<\/p>\n
I mean, it\u2019d be hard to really pin this game down to anything but just about three things; the Ducks really have come into their own as a squad and have some real killer shooters, the Bruins only scored one goal at even strength tonight and the Ducks scored three, and well\u2026Lukas Dostal is incredible. This was a textbook example of finding out that the future could be now, and it features a lot of eye-bleeding orange.<\/p>\n
Seriously Ducks, you need to get some black pants and helmets. Even all that out.<\/p>\n
It would probably hurt a lot less if most of those goals were coming from Leo Carlsson and Mason McTavish, but nah; it\u2019s guys like Jansen Harkins and Radko Gudas; all those big names played assist magnet tonight. Just frustrating.<\/p>\n
So Morgan Geekie is tied for the league lead for goals with Leon Draisaitl and Nathan MacKinnon. Like we all suspected he would be, right?<\/p>\n
Boston\u2019s power play is really, really, really good, which feels like another world if you\u2019re used to the defense-first B\u2019s. It arguably saved their bacon from this game getting really ugly, and I think it\u2019s a major component in the \u201cBattle back\u201d nature of the team. Nobody quits because any old penalty can be a chance at a comeback. 2-for-2 felt like a pipe dream some years ago. It\u2019s a shame what had to happen to the roster to get there.<\/p>\n
Marat Khusnutdinov has really found his niche as the \u201cexit-entry\u201d guy for his line. His north-south skating has made him an invaluable asset for the B\u2019s transition game and even if his point totals right now look kinda \u201cmeh\u201d, you can see him settling into this role so naturally it\u2019s a wonder anyone played him doing anything else.<\/p>\n
Radko Gudas did a borderline hit on Michael Eyssimont, and promptly had to defend his entire life against Jeffrey Viel for a couple of minutes. Maybe not the best instigator penalty to take, but under those circumstances I think it\u2019s at least understandable.<\/p>\n
Hey Mason? You\u2019re doing it again. You can\u2019t start doing it again. All these California teams are at the bare minimum competent. They\u2019ll getcha for that. Every time.<\/p>\n
Korpisalo was fine in the third period. He was however, deeply out of his depth against the Ducks, and it showed. His .879 SV% tonight would be a lot more rage inducing if he was getting any help from his skaters out front. He was big in moments they needed him to be\u2026he was just letting in goals from places that are kind of difficult to forgive.<\/p>\n
I reaaaaally would like it if we could get some points from this road trip, I really don\u2019t want to go back to the days of bargaining for points on the Cali road trip.<\/p>\n
The B\u2019s continue the California road trip with a visit to the LA Kings, which is on Friday at 10:30pm EST.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welp. 1st Period Things started bad. View Link Things started very, very bad. View Link Starting the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2063,16028,37612,6264,37611,10358,16587,37613,37616,26720,1716,37614,37615,1721,37610,16994,24178,4637,5429,1606],"class_list":["post-62269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-boston-bruins","tag-david-pastrnak","tag-dostal","tag-ducks","tag-hampus-lindholm","tag-ian-moore","tag-jansen-harkins","tag-jeffrey-viel","tag-korpisalo","tag-la-kings","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-marat-khusnutdinov","tag-mason-mctavish","tag-michael-eyssimont","tag-morgan-geekie","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-power-play","tag-radko-gudas","tag-the-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}