BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak had a objective and two assists and Parker Wotherspoon scored his first NHL objective on Tuesday night time to assist the Boston Bruins open a four-goal lead and maintain on to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-2.
Jeremy Swayman made 43 saves for the Bruins, who’ve received back-to-back video games after dropping six in a row – their longest dropping streak in a decade. Trent Frederic and Brad Marchand additionally scored as Boston took a 4-0 lead after 26 minutes. Andrew Peeke and Pavel Zacha added short-handed empty-netters with about 4 minutes left after the Lightning pulled the goalie on an influence play.
Conor Geekie and Victor Hedman scored within the second interval to chop a four-goal deficit in half. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 18 pictures for Tampa Bay, which had received three of its earlier 4 video games.
Lower than per week after their recreation ended with a slew of fights within the last seconds, Tuesday’s recreation featured 5 totally different scuffles — twice leading to matching preventing majors and twice in matching roughing minors. There have been solely three different penalties within the recreation.
Takeaways
The Bruins entered the night time two factors behind Tampa Bay for third place within the Atlantic Division and moved right into a tie with the victory.
Key second
With about 10 minutes left within the recreation, Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh flattened Bruins ahead Cole Koepke with a shoulder to the pinnacle. After reviewing the hit, the officers dominated that it was not a penalty.
Key stat
The Bruins gave up a season excessive in pictures for the second straight recreation and had been outshot 45-24. They had been outshot 43-18 in a victory over the Panthers on Saturday.
Up Subsequent
The Bruins are at Ottawa on Saturday, and Tampa Bay hosts Anaheim on Thursday night time.
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