4 Takeaways from Bruins’ dominant win over Canadiens.
Boston — The current team continued to extend its recent dominance of the clash on a night when the Boston Bruins honored the 1988 team that ended the Canadiens’ decades-long playoff dominance in the teams’ Original Six rivalry.
After 13 games, Boston has a 12-0-1 record against Montreal.
At TD Garden on Saturday, Danton Heinen recorded his first career hat trick as the Bruins defeated the Canadiens 9–4. David Pastrnak scored three goals against Colorado the night before he reached his milestone.
On Monday, the Bruins, who are 28-8-9 and atop the Atlantic Division, will play home to the Winnipeg Jets, who are leading the Central Division.
The Bruins turned a close game into a rout by scoring four goals to start the third period, leading 5–4 after the second.
After getting two early, Jim Montgomery put him on the ice for a late power play and his teammates looked for him until he added his third goal.
Throughout his NHL career, Jake DeBrusk has seen hot and cold spells, but he is still on fire. To keep up his winning streak, he scored a goal and made a lovely pass to set up Pavel Zacha’s goal. In his last two games, he recorded two goals and two assists.
Linus Ullmark finds it difficult in his return game-Ullmark wasn’t as sharp as normal in his first game back in the lineup following a lower-body injury, but the Bruins attack more than made up for it. Ullmark gave up four goals in the first 14 shots he faced.
Despite reinforcements Bruins penalty kill struggles — With Brandon Carlo and Derek Forbort back in the lineup, the Bruins figured to get stronger defensively, especially on the penalty kill, but Montreal scored two power play goals including one with both returning defensemen on the ice.
On the flip side of that, Carlo, who rarely joins the rush, scored his third goal of the season leading a break-in as he redirected a Trent Frederic shot past Sam Montembeault.
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