The Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs met for the second time in less than a week. Things didn’t go as planned for the Maple Leafs in their first meeting on Saturday night, with the Bruins scoring a goal late in the third period to earn the win.
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Coming into this meeting, the Maple Leafs were looking to turn things around and get back in the win column. For the Bruins, they wanted to extend their winning streak to seven games.
Now on to the summary.
Summary of the game
1st Period:
The first period started with the Bruins absolutely dominating the first five minutes of the game. They got a power play early and made the most of it, putting the puck on net and beating Anthony Stolarz.
The Maple Leafs responded quite quickly. Steven Lorentz scored two minutes after the Bruins made it 1-0 to make it 1-1. However, just three minutes later, Hampus Lindholm scored to make it 2–1. Then Alex Steeves scored to make it 3-1, and once again Toronto found itself in a hole. The bad news was that Boston managed to chase Stolarz in both games. The good news was that they still had 40 minutes to close the gap.
2nd Period:
Things went from bad to worse very quickly for the Maple Leafs. Just 49 seconds into the period, David Pastrnak scored his 400th career goal, extending the Bruins’ lead to 4–1. Unfortunately for Toronto, things got worse after Auston Matthews took a hard hit on the back from Nikita Zadorov and crashed into the boards.
He finished his shift, but then went straight to the room. Bobby McMann was able to cut the lead to two with just over a minute left in the period. Heading into the third, the Bruins led 4-2.
3rd Period:
The third period started with a lot of intensity from the Maple Leafs. It looked like they were trying to make a statement after their captain was hit and left the match. McMann hit a huge hit on Hampus Lindholm that drew a crowd, and then the scrums kept coming.
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Oliver Ekman-Larsson found the back of the net six minutes into the frame to cut the Bruins’ lead to one as they now led 4–3. As the period went on, things became increasingly messy. Max Domi even tried to fight Nikita Zadorov. Somehow, Domi was the only one to get a penalty out, and on the ensuing power play, Pastrnak scored again, putting his team up by two.
The Maple Leafs got their goalie back with two and a half minutes left in the third, but they couldn’t find the back of the net and dropped their third straight game in the regular inning, 5-3. As for the Bruins, they have now won seven in a row.
David Pastrnak scores twice to help the Boston Bruins lead the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-3.
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