The Bruins misplaced a late lead in Los Angeles on Friday, however this time they have been decided to not be left empty-handed.
Morgan Geekie notched his second aim of the sport — each of them sniper’s tallies — and the B’s knocked off the Los Angeles Kings, 2-1, with an time beyond regulation victory in LA.
In a forwards and backwards OT session, David Pastrnak gathered a Nikita Zadorov feed after the massive defenseman killed a scoring alternative on the different finish and despatched it cross-ice to Geekie, who beat Darcy Kuemper with a tough wrister from the proper circle. It was Geekie’s 16 of the yr.
“It’s big. Sadly, (coughing up factors) has been our MO this yr however to complete this one off feels good,” Geekie instructed NESN after the sport.
In the meantime, the B’s obtained a gotta-have-it efficiency from Jeremy Swayman, who made 31 saves for the win to snap the B’s shedding streak at two video games. Zadorov was wonderful once more, helping on each objectives and taking part in a dominant 26:19
It appeared like this one might have been one other painfully squandered recreation for the B’s.
Geekie broke a scoreless tie at 8:01 of the third interval. On a terrific shift from the newly-formed line with the sharpshooter, Marat Khusnutdinov and Alex Steeves, the B’s gained the puck simply exterior the LA blueline. Zadorov fed Steeves, who gained the offensive zone and located Geekie out excessive. Geekie blasted a scorching one-timer over Darcy Kuemper’s shoulder for his fifteenth of the yr.
However after the B’s killed off the Kings’ fifth energy play, they acquired a PP of their very own and an opportunity to place the hammer down. allowed LA to tie it up on a shorthanded aim at 13:03. Matej Blumel’s go into the slot go picked off by Trevor Moore, who broke out on a 2-on-1 with Joel Armia and Hampus Lindholm again defending. Swayman made the preliminary cease on Moore however, earlier than Lindholm corral the rebound, Armia knocked it house to tie it at 1-1.
However Geekie’s No. 16 despatched the B’s out of the rink blissful.
Very similar to the primary interval in Anaheim, the B’s have been the higher crew within the scoreless first interval by which they led in pictures on aim, 9-8.
However they confronted a harmful scenario when Sean Kuraly was referred to as for holding after which, 49 seconds later, Andrew Peeke was whistled for high-sticking, giving the Kings a 5-on-3 for 1:11. And as they did in Montreal final Saturday, they have been capable of kill it off, thanks largely to Swayman, who made an excellent glove save on Adrian Kempe.
At even power, the B’s created lots of turnovers within the LA finish, particularly the Tanner Jeannot-Fraser Minten-Mark Kastelic. However as Swayman was good on the different finish, Darcy Kuemper did his job, too.
Play continued to be even on a scoreless second, although each groups have been drawing a more in-depth bead on a aim.
The Kings had their likelihood when Kuraly was referred to as for tripping Anze Kopitar from behind, setting off a minor kerfuffle that noticed Kuraly additionally incur a 10-minute misconduct.
On the benefit, Kevin Fiala hit the far submit from the proper circle. It hit Swayman within the again however the netminder, Hampus Lindholm and Kastelic all appeared to get a chunk of the puck to improbably preserve the puck out of the web.
The second was a submit social gathering and the B’s hit a few them. First, Marat Khusnutdinov made a heady play, placing the puck on internet with a protracted shot from his personal zone. It produced a rebound for Riley Tufte, who clanged the crossbar.
Khusnutdinov arrange their different good likelihood, taking the ice in entrance of him to achieve the zone aand dish to David Pastrnak, who dinged the far submit previous Kuemper’s blocker.
Swayman stored it scoreless late within the interval when he made a great pad save of a dashing Brandt Clarke’s one-timer from slot.
