The Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens will auction off autographed, game-worn jerseys from Tuesday night’s game to raise money for the women’s hockey player who was paralyzed at the Winter Classic. For what it’s worth, even Florida (57 points) is within striking distance after they dropped their last two games.
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The Canadiens outshot Boston 39-24, but managed only a second-period goal from defenseman Mark Barberio. The team’s wore their Winter Classic jerseys in the rematch.
Patrice Bergeron broke a 1-1 tie in second period as the Bruins won their third in a row.
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“It felt pretty good, I’m not going to lie”, said Boston’s second-leading goal-scorer. “Next game, we have to be better”. The Bruins have allowed only 14 road power play goals on the season, including some that came in the first quarter of the season when the Bruins looked lost-at-best on the penalty kill each and every night, The Bruins were able to finally turn their penalty killing unit into one of the best in the league starting in the middle of November without sacrificing much offense or power play efficiency in the process. “We just played four games in six nights”. Markov picked up the puck after Condon lifted his left pad and went to pass it to an oncoming teammate, but it went right onto Talbot’s stick and the veteran forward made no mistake with a shot from the right circle at 13:08. Bergeron moved past Cam Neely into eighth place in Bruins history with his 591th career point. Defenseman Nathan Beaulieu did not return after sustaining a lower-body injury in the first period while left winger Paul Byron didn’t return after suffering a lower-body injury in the second.NOTES: The Canadiens made one change to its lineup, inserting RW Devante Smith-Pelly after sitting three games as a healthy scratch, in place of LW Jacob De La Rose…. Both will make the trip to the Bell Centre which has to be a good sign after Krejci missed the past nine games and Pastrnak was absent from the last three with upper-body injuries. The Bruins scratched C Landon Ferraro (upper-body injury, day-to-day), RW Tyler Randell and D Colin Miller. Pasternak returned after missing three.
