The Bruins beat the Washington Capitals last night 3-1 with a complete team effort. The Bruins first line of David Krejci, Nathan Horton, and Milan Lucic combined to score the first two goals. In the first period, Krejci scored his first goal of the season on a 2 on 1 with Horton, nice pass by Horton by the way. Later Lucic scored his third goal of the season. In the third period, defenseman Matt Hunwick scored his first goal of the season. It was a far wrist shot, with traffic in front of the net, and it got by goalie Semyon Varlamov. Despite the goal, Hunwick had a bad game, with turnovers and at times making bad decisions. One of his turnovers led to the Capitals only goal of the game.
Lucic got a Gordie Howe hat trick last night, the second of his career. His first came in his rookie season against the LA Kings.
Tim Thomas started in net and only gave up the one goal, making 35 saves on 36 shots. Thomas is now 3-0-0, with a .979 save percentage, and a 0.67 GAA. Right now the Bruins have a good problem with two good goalies, both can be considered starters in this league.
Here's a video with the hits and the fights from last nights game.
If you don't remember, Gregory Campbell and Matt Hendricks fought in the preseason, because of a Campbell hit on Alex Ovechkin, with Hendricks getting the upperhand. In their fight last night in the first period, I would say it was a draw as both guys threw wild punches. I'm not sure any connected though.
In the third period Milan Lucic and John Erskine dropped the gloves and had a spirited fight. That fight too it seemed nothing really landed, after some wild swings Erskine tied up Lucic. Lucic and Erskine first met up in the first period when Lucic came to the defense of Horton or Krejci in front of the Caps net as Erskine tried to rough someone up. They had some words and had to separated by the linesmen. In the third period they met up after some pushing near the Caps bench. If you remember, Lucic's first real loss in a fight was against Erskine in his rookie season so he probably didn't forget about that. Erskine gave Lucic a broken nose in that fight. Lucic tried to go toe-to-toe with Erskine then and last night it looked like Erskine tried to keep Lucic tied up.
Lucic's comments about the fight:
The next Bruins game is on Thursday at home against the same Washington Capitals at 7pm EST.
Lucic got a Gordie Howe hat trick last night, the second of his career. His first came in his rookie season against the LA Kings.
Tim Thomas started in net and only gave up the one goal, making 35 saves on 36 shots. Thomas is now 3-0-0, with a .979 save percentage, and a 0.67 GAA. Right now the Bruins have a good problem with two good goalies, both can be considered starters in this league.
Here's a video with the hits and the fights from last nights game.
If you don't remember, Gregory Campbell and Matt Hendricks fought in the preseason, because of a Campbell hit on Alex Ovechkin, with Hendricks getting the upperhand. In their fight last night in the first period, I would say it was a draw as both guys threw wild punches. I'm not sure any connected though.
In the third period Milan Lucic and John Erskine dropped the gloves and had a spirited fight. That fight too it seemed nothing really landed, after some wild swings Erskine tied up Lucic. Lucic and Erskine first met up in the first period when Lucic came to the defense of Horton or Krejci in front of the Caps net as Erskine tried to rough someone up. They had some words and had to separated by the linesmen. In the third period they met up after some pushing near the Caps bench. If you remember, Lucic's first real loss in a fight was against Erskine in his rookie season so he probably didn't forget about that. Erskine gave Lucic a broken nose in that fight. Lucic tried to go toe-to-toe with Erskine then and last night it looked like Erskine tried to keep Lucic tied up.
Lucic's comments about the fight:
"That's just what happens, two physical guys going at one another," said Lucic of the fight in a post-game interview on Versus. "Sometimes things like that happen. We both know our roles and we're both going to play that way."
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The next Bruins game is on Thursday at home against the same Washington Capitals at 7pm EST.
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