Talking Points: Returning Player Factor Huge For Boston Bruins

BOSTON – Listed below are the Speaking Factors from the Boston Bruins 3-1 win over the New York Rangers on Saturday afternoon at TD Backyard with returning injured gamers David Pastrnak, Hampus Lindholm and Linus Ullmark factoring massively within the win.

GOLD STAR: David Pastrnak, distinction maker. The Boston Bruins proper wing confirmed up and confirmed out in his first sport in nearly three weeks as he scored the sport’s first objective after which made a play blocking a go that arrange the B’s second objective to stake them to a 2-0 lead. It’s no coincidence that the Boston Bruins averaged two targets per sport in his absence, after which cranked it up again to a few targets in a successful efficiency as quickly as he got here again. Gamers that may produce a objective per sport are price their weight in gold and Pastrnak is a kind of guys. He completed with a plus-2 and 5 shot makes an attempt in 20:19 of ice time for the Bruins and actually didn’t present any indicators of rust after lacking the final eight video games with an undisclosed damage.

BLACK EYE: Dryden Hunt, what a bit of labor. He completed a team-worst minus-2, had a pair of giveaways and received the worst of it on this trade the place he was a part of two New York Rangers gamers that jumped Charlie McAvoy after a punishing, clear hit on Adam Fox. In some way this trade became matching penalties for Hunt and McAvoy, which is about the one win that Dryden Hunt had throughout a complete Saturday afternoon skating towards the Bruins.

TURNING POINT: The turning level was an amazing play by Hampus Lindholm that led on to the primary objective. Lindholm was in a position to shut down a rush down the left wing by Artemi Panarin, after which rapidly threw an outlet go to Brad Marchand, who fed Charlie McAvoy in transition earlier than McAvoy shuffled the puck to a large open Pastrnak for the one-timer shot. It was a shining instance of precisely the sort of elite, high-level play that the Boston Bruins had been lacking the previous few weeks with Lindholm and Pastrnak out of the lineup. And it confirmed precisely what they’ll add in a fast two-way play that became a objective, and a win that regarded loads like what the red-hot Boston Bruins have been doing within the month of March reasonably than the battle over the previous couple of weeks.

HONORABLE MENTION: Whereas so many have been marveling at Lindholm and Pastrnak making a giant distinction, it was simply as a lot about goalie Linus Ullmark within the extremely sturdy win for the Black and Gold. After lacking per week after catching a shot to the masks, Ullmark regarded sharp and on high of his sport whereas flashing a fast glove hand and stopping 30-of-31 photographs towards a Rangers crew that was in a position to get Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin some fairly attractiveness all through the sport. Ullmark’s efficiency makes it actually attention-grabbing what the Boston Bruins intend to do with the beginning goaltender spot for the primary sport of the Stanley Cup playoffs provided that Ullmark has been the higher goalie as of late between the 2 younger netminders with no postseason expertise.

BY THE NUMBERS: 500 – the variety of profession factors for David Pastrnak after a two-point efficiency in his return to the ice, making him the third quickest to succeed in that in his Boston Bruins profession behind Bobby Orr and Ray Bourque.

QUOTE TO NOTE: “Man!” – a surprisingly massive variety of Boston Bruins followers that bellowed out Man Lafleur’s identify out of respect to interrupt the stillness on the finish of a second of silence for the not too long ago handed Montreal Canadiens legend previous to Saturday’s sport at TD Backyard.