What is the story about?
Just the facts
- When: Tonight, 7 PM
- Where: TD Garden – Boston, MA
- How to follow: TNT, tru TV, HBO Max, 98.5 The Sports Hub
- Opposing perspective: Pension Plan Puppets
Know your enemy
- 8-7-1, 17PTS, 6th in the Atlantic Division
- William Nylander: 8G-15A-23PTs; John Tavares: 9G-12A-21PTS; Matthew Knies: 5G-15A-20PTS
- Anthony Stolarz: 6-5-1, 3.35 GAA, .889 save percentage
Game notes
- Can they make it seven? It felt like just yesterday I was writing that the Bruins were looking to stave off a six-game losing streak and now here we are, looking to extend a winning streak tonight to seven games as the Toronto Maple Leafs are in town.
- The Bruins fared well against the Maple Leafs a few days ago to push their winning streak to six with a 5-3 win over them on the road. In that game, the Bruins got production from five different goal-scorers, and nine players registering at least one point.
- Morgan Geekie continues to be hot, coming off a two-point game. Geekie has points in nine out of his last 10 games — and five points in his last five. He’s still near the top of the leader board with 11 goals.
- I will manifest it until it happens — David Pastrnak is now one goal away from 400 career goals.
- Head Coach Marco Sturm said Casey Mittlestadt is week-to-week after being sidelined with a lower-body injury in last Thursday’s game against the Ottawa Senators. Alex Steeves has slotted in to the forward’s group dealing with a few injuries right now. Sturm said he played how he felt he would when being called up, bringing energy. Steeves had 13:22 minutes on ice with one shot.
- The Bruins now have the same goals for/goals against average at 3.29. The Leafs are second to last in goals against with a 3.75 goals against average.
- Head-to-head, the Bruins and Maple Leafs’ PK are pretty similar — Bruins at 81.3% effective to 80.9% for the Leafs. On the power play, Bruins have the edge at 22.2% to Toronto’s 17.1%.
- Toronto enters the game on a two-game losing streak as they fell, 5-4, to the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday following their Saturday loss to the Bruins.
- For Toronto, Nylander has eight points in his last five games, with five goals and three assists. Morgan Reilly has seven assists in that time.
- See ya tonight!
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