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Game 31 Live Blog: Boston Bruins Vs. New Jersey Devils

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Here are five thoughts from the first period of Bruins/Devils with the Boston Bruins trailing New Jersey by a 1-0 score after the opening 20 minutes at TD Garden.

  • Not a bad period for the Bruins. They were getting traffic to the net and getting pucks on Mackenzie Blackwood to keep pressure on New Jersey after playing that same way in the third period against Buffalo on Saturday afternoon. David Krejci got a good shot on net through traffic to force Blackwood into making a good stop, and Anders Bjork fed Charlie Coyle for a redirect in front that bounced off Blackwood’s shoulder. No goals for their efforts, but they played pretty well all things considered.
  • Kyle Palmieri scores again against the Bruins. He’s another Bruins killer. That’s four goals in five games this season for Palmieri against the Black and Gold. This time it was a Ty Smith point shot that ricocheted off his knee on the way to the net, but it’s all a result of the veteran forward paying the price and getting into shooting lanes. Boy, he would look pretty good in a Bruins uniform.

 

  • I don’t know what’s going on with David Pastrnak, but he’s looked lethargic with the puck on the PP during the games this weekend. He’s fumbling around passes for one-timers, he’s slow to make plays with the puck and he just isn’t playing with his usual aggressiveness looking for his offense. No shot attempts for Pastrnak in 7:32 of ice time in the first period.

 

  • Charlie McAvoy is really at his full confidence level right now. Just one shot attempt in seven plus minutes of ice time, but he’s moving the puck with speed, precision and slickness and pacing the rest of the Bruins back end. He had one play where he carried it through traffic from behind his net up the middle, and that’s the kind of play a player only makes when he’s really doing the bull dance and feeling the flow.

 

  • No Brad Marchand again while he’s on the COVID list. Tough break for the Boston Bruins but they are surviving at this point.

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