How much? Well, the news conferences following Friday’s 4-3 Bruins win featured one coach calling out a superstar goaltender for embellishing by referencing his acting career and the other comparing a check to Aaron Rome’s infamous hit on Nathan Horton in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final. “Sometimes you don’t but today we did and the past couple of games this week we have, so that’s a great sign to build on”.
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Thankfully, J.T. Miller was able to put the Rangers back on top midway through the third period, and gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead with 11 minutes remaining.
McIlrath was correct, even if that instigator penalty gave the Bruins a power play (on which they scored the tying goal to make it a 2-2 game) when the Wes McCauley-Chris Rooney refereeing duo somehow failed to assess Beleskey for boarding on the unsafe play that merits review and imposition of supplementary discipline from the NHL Department of Player Safety.
“It was nice seeing the support from everyone back home, especially around (Boston)”, Vatrano said. While I wouldn’t be surprised to see a close game, I just don’t think MI has any business being favored. “Find a way to win, and you move on”, Bruins coach Claude Julien told reporters.
The Rangers (16-5-2) have now lost two straight regulation games for the first time since October 13-15.
“Those ones sting a lot”, said defenseman/captain Ryan McDonagh.
Lundquist stopped center Joonas Kemppainen on a breakaway early after a giveaway by center Oscar Lindberg and also robbed left winger Loui Eriksson in tight before the Bruins scored the game’s first goal.
Stepan has six goals and 12 points in 23 games this season.
The Rangers entered the second down 1-0 but took the lead after Lindberg and Nash scored goals 3:05 apart.
The Buckeyes have won nine of the last 10 meetings between these two rivals, and they’ve covered the spread in seven of those games. He made 30 saves on Friday.
The Rangers had their own costly penalty in the second, when Dylan McIlrath was called for instigating a fight with Matt Beleskey after the Bruins’ forward leveled Derek Stepan with a hit deep in New York’s zone.
Stepan did play five more shifts in the period but left the bench before the period ended.
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The hit wasn’t clean in the eyes of the Rangers. “Teams have been trying to shut that down, so we maybe need to use the goal line a little bit more, shoot a little bit more, maybe from myself, and see if that works”. “Step broke some ribs, and he’ll be out indefinitely”, Vigneault said. The Rangers had D Dan Boyle and LW Viktor Stahlberg as healthy scratches and have a total of only four manpower games lost to injury so far this season…. Jimmy Hayes’ assist on Connolly’s goal in the second period was his first point in 10 games.
