Boston Bruins Game 56: Boston Bruins @ Vancouver Canucks game recap video, on February 17, 2018.
Quick game summary
In the first period, at 2:00, Canucks Loui Eriksson scored, giving the Canucks a 1-0 lead. At 10:54, Canucks Daniel Sedin scored, giving the Canucks a 2-0 lead. At 11:50, Canucks Bo Horvat scored, giving the Canucks a 3-0 lead. At 18:39, Canucks Sven Baertschi scored, giving the Canucks a 4-0 lead.
In the second period, at 2:44, Canucks Nic Dowd scored, giving the Canucks a 5-0 lead.
In the third period, at 2:57, Bruins Tim Schaller scored his 10th goal of the season, cutting the Canucks lead to 5-1. At 11:53, Canucks Loui Eriksson scored a short-handed goal, giving the Canucks a 6-1 lead.
Game notes
Tuukka Rask started the game in net and only played in the first period. Rask made 4 saves on 8 shots. Rask got the loss and is now 23-10-4 with a 2.20 GAA and a .921 save percentage this season. Backup goalie Anton Khudobin played the second and third periods and made 13 saves on 15 shots. Khudobin now has a 2.34 GAA and a .923 save percentage this season.
The Bruins led the game with a 58% faceoff percentage and shots 45-24. The Canucks led the game in hits 28-17 and blocked shots 18-2. The Bruins went 0-for-5 on the power-play while the Canucks didn't have any power-plays.
Zdeno Chara led the Bruins with 7 shots. David Backes led the Bruins with 5 hits.
Frank Vatrano, Jordan Szwarz, Kevan Miller and Paul Postma were scratched for the Bruins.
Three stars of the game
1) Canucks goalie Anders Nilsson
2) Canucks forward Loui Eriksson
3) Canucks defenseman Alexander Edler
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 35-13-8 with 78 points this season and are in 2nd place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 7-3-0 in their last ten games and their road record is now 16-6-4 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Monday, when they visit the Calgary Flames, at 4pm ET.
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