Bruins beat Capitals 4-1, hold Washington to season-low 11 shots – Boston News, Weather, Sports

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BOSTON (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored with 6:19 left to interrupt a third-period tie, and the Boston Bruins killed a five-minute penalty with out permitting a shot on aim on Monday evening to beat the Washington Capitals 4-1.

It was 1-1 when Charlie Coyle made an extended clearing move to Lindholm and he slid it over to Brad Marchand on the blue line to start out a two-on-one. Marchand handed it again, Lindholm faked goalie Charlie Lindgren to the ice after which backhanded it into the web to make it 2-1.

Coyle made it 3-1 two minutes later, and Marchand added an empty-netter. Justin Brazeau additionally scored and Jeremy Swayman made 10 saves for the Bruins, who gained for the fourth time in 5 video games and improved to 11-4-1 since Joe Sacco changed Jim Montgomery on the bench.

Jakub Vrana scored and Lindgren stopped 18 pictures for the Capitals, who got here into the day main the Japanese Convention, and have misplaced three of their final six video games.

Takeaways

Capitals: Are 10-6 since Alexander Ovechkin broke his leg on Nov. 18.

Bruins: Ahead and main scorer David Pastrnak appeared to tweak one thing within the second interval. He returned to the ice for a short while however then went to the locker room and was dominated out with an unspecified upper-body harm.

Key second

Ten seconds into the third interval, Bruins ahead Oliver Wahlstrom was despatched off with a recreation misconduct and five-minute main when he pushed Capitals defenseman Martin Fehervary head-first into the boards. Washington didn’t get a shot on aim in the course of the energy play.