BOSTON (AP) — Mathieu Olivier scored short-handed in a three-goal first interval that ended with the Boston followers booing their very own group off the ice, and the last-place Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Bruins 5-1 on Monday night time.
Justin Danforth additionally scored a short-handed objective, making it 4-1 halfway via the third interval. Yegor Chinakhov made it 5-1 with about six minutes left, bringing out extra boos and sending many of the remaining followers to the exits.
James van Riemsdyk and Dmitri Voronkov additionally scored for Columbus, and Elvis Merzļikins stopped 29 pictures.
Charlie Coyle scored Boston’s solely objective, and Jeremy Swayman made 24 saves because the Bruins misplaced their third straight sport.
Takeaways
Blue Jackets: Received for simply the second time in 9 video games because of some balanced scoring and the 2 short-handed objectives. Van Riemsdyk is perhaps precisely the veteran pickup they wanted.
Bruins: The efficiency in opposition to one of many NHL’s backside groups goes to intensify requires Boston administration to fireplace coach Jim Montgomery.
Key second
Early within the first interval, Merzļikins misplaced his stick and it slid all the way in which into the nook. However Boston wasn’t capable of check the disarmed goalie; as a substitute, Dante Fabbro despatched the puck forward and out of the zone to Sean Monahan, who discovered Voronkov slicing down the center and splitting two defensemen.
Voronkov backhanded the puck previous Swayman as Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo desperately swiped on the puck from behind after which crashed into the objective, knocking it off its moorings a break up second after the puck hit the again of the online.
Up subsequent
Blue Jackets host Tampa Bay on Thursday night time, and Bruins host Utah.
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