Bruins beat Lightning 3-2


Boston Bruins Game 23: Tampa Bay Lightning @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on November 29, 2017.
On Wednesday night, the Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2.

Quick game summary
In the first period, at 7:27, Bruins Charlie McAvoy scored his 3rd goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead. At 17:13, Bruins Riley Nash scored his 2nd goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 2-0 lead.

In the second period, at 5:59, Bruins Torey Krug scored his 4th goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 3-0 lead. At 10:53, Lightning Andrej Sustr scored, cutting the Bruins lead to 3-1. At 2:26, Lightning Cedric Paquette hit Bruins Torey Krug from behind, then Bruins Frank Vatrano went after Paquette which started a big scrum. You remember Paquette, right? He was the guy back in 2015 that Bruins captain Zdeno Chara roughed up a few times after Paquette dived, embellished and threw gloved punches at Chara.

In the third period, at 2:10, Lightning Steven Stamkos scored a power-play goal, cutting the Bruins lead to 3-2.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 19 saves on 21 shots. Rask is now 4-8-2 with a 2.84 GAA and a .899 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game with a 57% faceoff percentage, in shots 36-21 and blocked shots 15-11. The Lightning led the game in hits 26-15. The Bruins went 0-for-2 on the power-play while the Lightning went 1-for-2.

Torey Krug led the Bruins with 7 shots. David Backes led the Bruins with 5 hits. Brad Marchand led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots.

Matt Beleskey, Jake DeBrusk and David Krejci were scratched for the Bruins.

Three stars of the game
1) Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy
2) Bruins forward Brad Marchand
3) Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 11-8-4 with 26 points this season and are in 4th place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 5-4-1 in their last ten games and their home record is now 7-4-2 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Saturday, when they visit the Philadelphia Flyers, at 1pm ET.

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