Brad Marchand Gives Bruins 4-3 Overtime Win Against Capitals In Game 2 To Tie Series
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WASHINGTON – Brad Marchand scored 39 seconds into extra time after partner Taylor Hall tied the game late in guideline, and the Boston Bruins revitalized to beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 Monday night, tying the East Division first-round season finisher arrangement at a game each.
Marchand was Boston's OT legend in a game in which he made more clamor for taking post-whistle punishments than delivering. The Bruins' driving scorer, who positioned third in the NHL in focuses, looked more such as himself on the one-clock he tore past Craig Anderson in additional time.
This arrangement has helped the NHL end of the season games get off to a thundering beginning with five back to back one-objective games, including four arriving at additional time. The Capitals and Bruins are surely no aliens to it. They've presently played nine continuous one-objective games in the postseason dating to their 2012 arrangement.
Game 3 is Wednesday night in Boston.
The Bruins were under three minutes from unadulterated distress mode in the arrangement.
Two punishments from the get-go in the third period removed Boston from musicality as Garnet Hathaway scored his second of the game to give Washington the lead with 12:56 left. Anderson – who made 38 successive saves in the wake of permitting two objectives on the initial five Bruins shots – was a stone until Hall whacked a free puck past him with 2:49 left in guideline.
Boston got first-period objectives from Jake DeBrusk and Patrice Bergeron, and 36 recoveries from Tuukka Rask, who was beaten twice by redirections. Hathaway scored twice and T.J. Oshie diverted a shot in for Washington, which played without goaltenders Vitek Vanecek and Ilya Samsonov and focus Evgeny Kuznetsov, and lost focus Lars Eller to a lower-body injury in Game 2.
Anderson got done with 44 recoveries.
Boston Bruins focus Brad Marchand (left) commends his extra time objective against the Washington Capitals.
Boston Bruins focus Brad Marchand (left) commends his extra time objective against the Washington Capitals. (Photograph: Brad Mills, USA TODAY Sports)
Significant ABSENCES
While Vanecek is viewed as everyday with a lower-body injury, Kuznetsov and Samsonov stayed out in the wake of clearing alliance COVID convention Sunday. Each missed the last five rounds of the normal season, and there's no complete course of events for when they'll be free to play.
The Bruins played without defenseman Jeremy Lauzon, who was supplanted on the blue line by Connor Clifton, a correct shot playing his off side.
OSHIE THE CENTER
The Capitals gained Michael Raffl at the exchange cutoff time, partially in light of the fact that the characteristic winger can likewise play focus, yet mentor Peter Laviolette saved Oshie in the center for another game. Eller's physical issue just exacerbated the requirement for Oshie at focus.
"I feel like I understand what the obligations are for each position," Oshie said. "I feel pretty good there and know my tasks and just had the opportunity to take care of business.
Reinforcement GOALIE GAMES
While the Capitals didn't dress any of the three goalies they figured they'd have after free office with Pheonix Copley backing up Anderson, the Bruins have practically the contrary issue. Newbie Jeremy Swayman upheld for Boston, consigning Jaroslav Halak to a third-string job.
"Jaro clearly is an expert, so he's buckling down each day, yet he's troubled," mentor Bruce Cassidy said, adding it's Rask's net "at this moment."
Halak turned into the Bruins starter right off the bat in the end of the season games the previous summer when Rask quit the air pocket for family reasons.
UP NEXT 사설토토
Capitals defenseman Zdeno Chara plays as a guest in the end of the season games at TD Garden in Boston interestingly after 73 games there as Bruins skipper. Puck drop on Game 3 is 6:30 Wednesday night.
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