Bruins start road trip with loss to Canucks

Canucks Shawn Matthias scores a hat trick against the Bruins, on February 13, 2015.

Last night the Bruins started their road trip on a bad note with a 5-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks where Bruins killer Shawn Matthias scored a hat trick.

Quick game summary
In the first period, less than two minutes into the game, Canucks Shawn Matthias scored, making it 1-0 Canucks. Less than four minutes later, Canucks Shawn Matthias scored again, making it 2-0 Canucks. Less than five minutes later, Bruins Patrice Bergeron scored his 16th goal of the season, making it 2-1.

In the second period, Canucks Radim Vrbata scored, making it 3-1 Canucks.

In the third period, Bruins Chris Kelly scored his 7th goal of the season, making it 3-2. Only 24 seconds later, Canucks Shawn Matthias scored again earning his first career hat trick, making it 4-2 Canucks. Later, Canucks Jannik Hansen scored an empty-net goal, making it 5-2 Canucks.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 20 saves on 24 shots. Rask is now 23-15-7 this season.

The Bruins led the game in hits 23-19 and faceoff wins 30-19. The Canucks led the game in shots 25-23 and blocked shots 18-12. Both teams went 0-for-3 on the power-play.

Chris Kelly, Carl Soderberg and Patrice Bergeron led the Bruins with 3 shots each. Milan Lucic and Daniel Paille led the Bruins with 3 hits each. Reilly Smith led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots.

Matt Bartkowski and Jordan Caron were out of the Bruins lineup.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 28-20-7 with 63 points and are 4th place in the Atlantic Division. The next game for the Bruins is on Monday at the Calgary Flames, at 9pm ET.