On Sunday night, the Boston Bruins concluded their three-game West Coast road trip in Salt Lake City with a matchup against the Utah Mammoth at the Delta Center.
In the two inter-conference games these two played last season, a total of four goals were scored in both games, with both teams beating each other.
Summary of the game
The scoring started shortly after Liam O’Brien and Mark Kastelic ignited the crowd with a heavyweight fight four minutes into the match.
Shortly after the Bruins’ Elias Lindholm went to the box for a hook, and on the ensuing power play, the Mammoth scored an odd goal. Nick Schmaltz cut the puck off Logan Cooley’s back and it fell over Joonas Korpisalo’s shoulder.
David Pastrnak broke the ice for the Bruins 10 minutes later, scoring on the first man advantage of the game. These were the only goals of the first period and they went into the first intermission tied.
The Bruins took the lead just over five minutes into the second period on a give-and-go play between Marat Khusnutdinov and Pastrnak, who finished it off for his second goal of the match.
The rest of the second period was filled with physicality after the whistle. Charlie McAvoy buried a Mammoth attacker in the back wall to defend his goalkeeper, which led to another scrum a few minutes later, where Nikita Zadorov and Brandon Tanev went into the penalty area to offset foul penalties.
Over the next two minutes of four-on-four hockey, Nick Schmaltz circled the zone and found Mammoth captain Clayton Keller on the sidewalk for a tap-in to put the game right. It was Schmaltz’s second point of the game and sixth in his last two games after a hat trick.
After each scoring a goal in the second period, the Mammoth and Bruins entered the final period tied once again.
Utah then regained the lead when JJ Peterka fed Dylan Guenther a one-timer from the circle just after the middle of the final period.
The Mammoth then maintained the 3-2 lead over the final 10 minutes, fending off the Bruins’ final attacks with the net empty.
The Mammoth will look to extend its win streak to four on Tuesday in a game against the Colorado Avalanche, while the Bruins head home before playing the Florida Panthers that same day.
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