The Bruins overcame blowing a three-goal deficit, and..
Charlie McAvoy won it in overtime for the Bruins’ 6-5 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday, February 21st at Rogers Place, after the team had blown a three-goal lead. Following their four-game losing run that started on February 8th when they blanked the Vancouver Canucks, Boston bounced back. On February 19, they defeated the Dallas Stars in a shootout to snap their losing skid.
Pastrnak, Zacha, and DeBrusk
Richard – Geekie – van Riemsdyk
Brazeau, Boqvist, and Frederic
Grzelcyk – McAvoy
Carlo Lohrei
The Wotherspoon Forbort
Swayman
Ullmark
Oilers starting lineup against. Boston:
Hyman, McDavid, and Foegele
Draisaitl, McLeod, and Kane
Perry, Holloway, and Janmark
Ryan, Gagner, and Brown
Bouchard – Ekholm
Ceci, the nurse
Kulak – Desharnias
Skinner
Pickard
With his tenth goal of the year, Morgan Geekie gave Boston a 1-0 lead early in the first period at 17:26. During the power play, Geekie beat Stuart Skinner with a wrist shot from the blue line that went high glove side. A little while later in the frame, Warren Foegele knotted the score at 1. He carefully slipped inside the crease, forcing the puck between Jeremy Swayman’s pads.
Brad Marchand gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead only 25 seconds into the second frame. Marchand skated in the blue line, beat Stuart Skinner stick side with a wrist shot from the left face-off circle. Trent Frederic’s 16th goal of the year made it 3-1 when he deflected a Jesper Boqvist ball.Taking a bank on the far post. Later in the middle stanza, Jake DeBrusk scored a backhanded basket off the rebound of David Pastrnak’s shot from the blue line to increase Boston’s lead to 4-1. Warren Foegele backhanded a centering feed from Zach Hyman to cut it to 4-2.
At 13:46 in the third period, Mattias Janmark made the score 4-3. Jeremy Swayman’s legs gave up as he touched in a rebound of Cody Ceci’s slap shot from the point. Corey Perry’s long-range shot from the point was made by Darnell Nurse, tying the score at four. David Pastrnak gave the Bruins a 5-4 lead at 7:19 of the third. After Evander Kane’s attempted clearing effort was intercepted, Pastrnak walked it in from the blue line and fired past Stuart Skinner’s glove for his 36th goal of the year. Zach Hyman scored a rebound and put Mattias Ekholm’s three-pointer past Swayman to level the game at five points in only forty-two seconds.
At 13:46 in the third period, Mattias Janmark made the score 4-3. Jeremy Swayman’s legs gave up as he touched in a rebound of Cody Ceci’s slap shot from the point. Corey Perry’s long-range shot from the point was made by Darnell Nurse, tying the score at four. David Pastrnak gave the Bruins a 5-4 lead at 7:19 of the third. After Evander Kane’s attempted clearing effort was intercepted, Pastrnak walked it in from the blue line and fired past Stuart Skinner’s glove for his 36th goal of the year. Zach Hyman scored a rebound and put Mattias Ekholm’s three-pointer past Swayman to level the game at five points in only forty-two seconds.
Charlie McAvoy scored and provided a helper. Mason Lohrei earned three assists, while David Pastrnak and Jake DeBrusk each scored a goal and an assist.
In order to become the tenth player in Boston Bruins history to achieve 700 points, Pastrnak needs one more point. During a five-game point run, he has seven points (four assists and three goals). With two goals and five assists over a five-game run, McAvoy has seven points.
— Stuart Skinner made 30 saves for Edmonton, and Jeremy Swayman made 37 for Boston.
— Matt Grzelcyk had a lower-body injury that prevented him from playing again after the first period.
— Due to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ sickness, Warren Foegele skated on Edmonton’s top line alongside Connor McDavid and Zach Hyman.
– Since 2018–19, Corey Perry is the only Oilers player to score multiple goals and get into a brawl in the same season. Zack Lewin.
Connor McDavid had two assists and two goals to extend his point run to 20 games at home for Warren Foegele.
McDavid leads the NHL in assists this season with 64, having tallied 14 in the last five games. 18 goals and 36 assists in his previous 20 games with points. After 21 in the previous season, he became the sixth player in NHL history to have 20 consecutive 20-game home point streaks.
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