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Jeremy Swayman Puts Up Wall For Bruins Against Wild

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BOSTON — There was nothing the Minnesota Wild could do.



There was no room under, over, or around Jeremy Swayman on Tuesday night, as he made 33 saves in goal for the Boston Bruins, leading them to a 3-0 win at TD Garden in his third shutout of the season.

“It’s important to be building my own game and knowing that I’m helping this team win games every time I get a chance to be in the net,” Swayman said. “That’s my job. Every shutout isn’t an individual effort. It takes the whole team in front of me doing their job, and that’s what they did tonight: blocking shots and making sure they cleared rebounds. It was a really great team effort for us to build on.” 

The Bruins had a hard time starting their engines to begin the game as Minnesota held a 5-0 advantage in shots on goal through the first 9:25 of the first period. After that, though, the Bruins found a spark and dominated possession, outshooting the Wild 14-2 in the final 10:35 before the intermission.

Still, the score was deadlocked at zero at the end of 20 minutes, mostly because 40-year-old Marc-André Fleury turned back the clocks in goal for Minnesota, robbing the Bruins with several high-danger scoring chances.

It wasn’t until the second period that the Bruins finally beat the future Hall of Famer. Even then, they needed heavy traffic in front of the net to do so, as Charlie McAvoy deflected David Pastrnak’s shot from the high slot to make it 1-0 Boston at 5:46 of the middle frame with his seventh goal of the season.

With the primary helper on the goal, Pastrnak extended his point streak to 11 straight games, giving him 24 in that span with 10 goals and 14 assists.

Matthew Poitras had the secondary assist on the goal by McAvoy and soon had another as he set up Trent Frederic off an odd-man rush for his eighth goal of the season that pushed Boston’s lead to two.

Poitras and Frederic were on the ice later in the second period in another critical moment for the Bruins, only this time, it was in the defensive end.

The two, with their linemate, Oliver Wahlstrom, and defensemen Nikita Zaodorov and Andrew Peeke, got stuck in Boston’s end of the ice for more than two minutes. The five were absolutely exhausted while Minnesota skated circles around them but held their ground to maintain the 2-0 advantage entering the final period.

Boston spent the majority of the third period in its own zone as well, killing off three different penalties.

But even with an extra attacker, the Wild couldn’t put a puck into the Bruins net. Instead, Morgan Geekie hit an empty net to seal with 45.9 seconds remaining to seal the win for the Bruins.

This story will be updated. 

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2 Comments

2 Comments

  1. Joe

    February 5, 2025 at 8:26 am

    Nice win … Bruins D … McAvoy & Lindholm top pairing Dmen on most teams Carlo is 2nd pairing D man 50% of the time all the rest are 3rd pairing Dmen … besides being a legit center short their D is the major issue this season

  2. Rick W Murray

    February 5, 2025 at 11:04 am

    Swayman’s best game of the season, McAvoys looked good Pasternak has been brilliant it’s only two games they should bring up Dipietro he’s been the best goalie in the ahl all season I wouldn’t go with the finish meatball. Last few games he’s been awful.

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