Boston Bruins Game 78: Boston Bruins @ Philadelphia Flyers game recap video, on April 1, 2018.
Quick game summary
In the first period, at 9:38, Flyers Claude Giroux scored, giving the Flyers a 1-0 lead.
In the second period, at 0:25, Flyers Travis Konecny scored, giving the Flyers a 2-0 lead. At 14:25, Bruins Noel Acciari scored his 9th goal of the season, cutting the Flyers lead to 2-1.
In the third period, at 5:31, Flyers Nolan Patrick scored, giving the Flyers a 3-1 lead. At 6:54, Bruins David Pastrnak scored his 33rd goal of the season, a power-play goal, cutting the Flyers lead to 3-2. At 19:56, Bruins Patrice Bergeron scored his 30th goal of the season, tying the game 3-3.
In overtime, at 3:39, Flyers Claude Giroux scored, winning the game 4-3 for the Flyers.
Game notes
Anton Khudobin played in net and made 20 saves on 24 shots. Khudobin is now 15-6-7 with a 2.58 GAA and a .913 save percentage this season.
The Bruins led the game with a 53% faceoff percentage, in shots 39-24 and blocked shots 20-16. The Flyers led the game in hits 20-14. The Bruins went 1-for-3 on the power-play while the Flyers went 0-for-2.
David Pastrnak led the Bruins with 7 shots. Tim Schaller led the Bruins with 3 hits. Adam McQuaid and Kevan Miller led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots each.
Sean Kuraly, Rick Nash, Riley Nash, Brandon Carlo and Charlie McAvoy were scratched for the Bruins.
Three stars of the game
1) Flyers forward Claude Giroux
2) Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov
3) Flyers goalie Petr Mrazek
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 49-17-12 with 110 points this season and are in 1st place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 5-1-4 in their last ten games and their road record is now 22-10-7 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Tuesday, when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning, at 7:30pm ET.
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