The Bruins notched their 61st victory of the season. They’ll solely hope that it wasn’t a expensive one.
David Pastrnak, who dedicated a nasty turnover earlier within the recreation, blasted a one-timer previous Ilya Samsonov at 2:30 of time beyond regulation to elevate the B’s to a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on the Backyard. It was Pastrnak’s 57th of the 12 months, coming off a pleasant feed from Dmitry Orlov on a 4-on-4 simply after a Leaf penalty was up.
However the B’s need to be holding their collective breath after Charlie McAvoy left the sport within the second interval when he crashed exhausting into the boards and didn’t return. It was introduced he had an higher physique damage.
Shortly earlier than the winner, Pavel Zacha had been known as for a hand cross off a faceoff, a two-minute infraction however the officers received collectively and appropriately rescinded the decision, thus permitting the B’s to notch the winner.
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The Bruins trailed 1-0 within the third interval however, simply after their third failed energy play, they tied it at 11:32. Brandon Carlo used all six toes and 6 inches of his body to make a vertical leaping keep-in on the proper level and received it right down to Charlie Coyle. The massive centerman drifted over the left circle snapped a shot that beat Ilya Samsonov to knot the sport.
The B’s held a 11-7 shot benefit within the first interval, even supposing Toronto had the one two energy performs within the opening 20 minutes.
Issues received testy on the 14:33 mark when Sam Lafferty hit an off-balance Matt Gzelcyk and knocked the Bruin into the boards exhausting and awkwardly. Although the hit wasn’t egregious, the outcome seemed dangerous and A.J. Greer felt compelled to precise some revenge, instantly throwing off his gloves and touchdown a few photographs on Lafferty. Greer wound up getting two for an instigator, 5 for combating and the 10-minute misconduct.
Jeremy Swayman’s finest save got here on the kill when he kicked out a William Nylander slot shot.
Each Swayman and his counterpart Ilya Samsonov saved the sport scoreless via the primary half of the second interval however a Bruin mistake led to the primary objective of the sport. David Pastrnak’s diagonal breakout cross was picked off by Laffety simply exterior the Boston blue line and he counter-attacked. He dumped it into the other nook and the puck rimmed again out excessive to Zac Aston-Reese on the left wing. Lafferty headed to the online to obtain Aston-Resse’s good return cross on the proper submit for the objective at 11:34.Swayman had no likelihood on it.
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However the self-inflicted objective in opposition to wasn’t the most important cause for concern. On a Toronto rush that produced a very good likelihood for Nylander that Swayman stuffed, Patrice Bergeron crashed into McAvoy on the again verify and McAvoy in flip slammed into the top boards. He was sluggish to rise up and left the sport. The membership introduced it was an higher physique damage and he didn’t return.
The facility-play yips returned for the B’s within the second as effectively. They received two possibilities and couldn’t maintain good strain on both of them.
On Saturday night, the Boston Celtics hosted the Atlanta Hawks in Massachusetts.
The Celtics lost by a score of 119-115 (in overtime).
Jayson Tatum finished the loss with 23 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals while shooting 7/21 from the field and 2/9 from the three-point range in 43 minutes of playing time.
After the game, he made an honest statement when he met with the media (h/t CLNS Media Boston Sports Network).
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Tatum: “We were playing with pace; we had the right intentions. We had the right mindset tonight. We shot 38% from the field. That’s the tough part when you’re doing things a certain way, and the results aren’t matching. How do you continue to stay positive, and keep fighting and keep going forward.”
With the loss, the Celtics dropped to 29-13 in their first 42 games, which has them as the second seed in the Eastern Conference.
They are 6-4 over their last ten games.
Via Jared Weiss of The Athletic: “Celtics had some bad execution in crunch time to fumble a win away in OT. Trae Young really took control during OT and the Hawks did a great job targeting Neemias Queta, but the Celtics just made a lot of poor decisions here late. Pretty rough loss for a team who has had a lot of them lately.”
Celtics had some bad execution in crunch time to fumble a win away in OT. Trae Young really took control during OT and the Hawks did a great job targeting Neemias Queta, but the Celtics just made a lot of poor decisions here late. Pretty rough loss for a team who has had a lot… https://t.co/0SApusUoOb
Tatum is in his eighth season playing for the Celtics.
The All-Star forward has averages of 27.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.3 steals per contest while shooting 45.9% from the field and 35.8% from the three-point range.
A huge fourth quarter by Camryn Tade helped the Army West Point Black Knights women’s basketball team rally from a deficit to defeat Boston U, 59-52, on Saturday in Boston.
The Black Knights (13-3, 5-1 Patriot) have won two straight games since they fell to Lehigh a weekend ago and dropped from the ranks of the undefeated teams in the league.
Now, Army is tied for first place with both Navy and Holy Cross at 5-1 going into next week’s games. Lehigh is a half-game back at 4-1.
The Black Knights started the fourth quarter down 46-38. Tade came to the rescue, as she scored 11 of her 18 points in the final 10 minutes.
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She got to work 40 seconds into the quarter with a 3-pointer that cut the lead to five points.
After several empty possessions, Tade struck again with another 3-pointer to push the Black Knights within two points, 46-44, with 7:30 left.
The Terriers remained in the lead as they and the Black Knights traded free throws before Army took the lead, thanks against to Tade. Her lay-up with 5:25 left put Army in the lead, 48-47.
From there, the Black Knights remained ahead. A Fiona Hastick lay-up pushed the lead to three points, followed by a 3-pointer by Tade with 3:32 left that made it 53-47 Army.
Boston (7-10, 1-5) never got any closer.
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The Terriers controlled the game in the first half, as they took a 10-9 lead after the first quarter and then pushed that lead to 25-15 at halftime. Army surged to 23 points in the third quarter, but Boston hung in there by scoring 21 points before the Black Knights outscored the Terriers, 21-6, in the final stanza.
Tade made four 3-pointers for the game, three of which came in the fourth quarter. She also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots. Trinity Hardy led Army with 21 points, along with eight rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal.
Reese Ericson hit some key free throws down the stretch, as she went 6-fot-6 from the line for the game and finished with nine points. She also had four assists.
Inés Monteagudo led Boston with 12 points, while Allison Schwertner added 11 points.
Next week is critical for Army’s Patriot League Tournament seeding as it will face Holy Cross on Wednesday and Navy on Sunday. The Black Knights already have a loss to Lehigh, so they can ill-afford a loss to either the Crusaders or their rivals, the Midshipmen.
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