The Bruins were down one energy player after Monday night’s overtime loss to the Edmonton Oilers as Zac Rinaldo was missing from practice on Tuesday morning at Ristuccia Arena. “Our goaltender played a tremendous game for us and you know when we’re a little short staffed we need that from him”, Oilers coach Todd McLellan said after the win.
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Though it was Andrej Sekera who scored the overtime victor to claim the W, it was goaltender Cam Talbot’s remarkable play that kept the Oilers’ win streak alive. “You get exhausted when you lose the puck and you have to go back to backcheck”.
“You don’t just want to give it up for no reason, you don’t want to dump it in too much and take low percentage shots or anything like that”, Nugent-Hopkins said. “It’s unfortunate like I said, their goalie made a lot of big saves and we didn’t do a great job of getting in front but we still probably should have won”. Top goalie Tuukka Rask had the night off in the midst of a hot stretch, posting a 6-0-2 mark in his last eight starts.
The Oilers, though, have totaled 10 non-shootout goals while going 1-5-1 in their past seven on the road. “We came out with one [point] when we should’ve come out with two”. It was his team-leading 15th of the season.
The Oilers challenged the play, saying defenseman Torey Krug was offside.
Despite a late third period tying goal from Brad Marchand, the B’s were handed their ninth loss of the season as they fell to 16-9-4. Boston is 13-0-0-2 against Edmonton since the beginning of 2001-02 – the second longest active point streak vs. the Oilers (Coyotes – 19 straight).
Left winger Matt Beleskey got a soft one past Talbot to make it 2-1 at 13:29 of the second.
On June 27, former Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli landed Talbot from the Rangers for three 2015 picks. Edmonton D Nikita Nikitin was recalled last Thursday after being cut following training camp. While he did let in one gaffe of a goal when the puck took a bad bounce in favour of Tyler Toffoli, he turned that trend around with a strong 33-save performance.
The Bruins return to TD Garden for a Wednesday night rivalry contest with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Edmonton faces the Rangers on Tuesday, the second game of a four-game road trip. “At the same time we have to be happy that we came back from two goals again”. John Carlson added his fifth goal of the season for the Metropolitan Division leaders.
The 49 shots on goal that Boston put on Talbot were a season-high for the team.
Pittsburgh was 0-for-2 on the power play and is 0-for-11 in its last five games.
Sabres 2, Red Wings 1: Ryan O’Reilly and Johan Larsson scored 61 seconds apart late in the third period for visiting Buffalo, which had lost eight in a row in Detroit.
According to Sportsnet’s stats department, all of those multi-goal games have come against Western Conference teams.
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Kyle Turris, Erik Karlsson and Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Senators. He’s paid to score points for the Oilers, not fight, and nearly nobody in the National Hockey League is doing better 30 games into the season.
