Bruins power-play leads them to 4-3 win over Rangers

New York Rangers @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on November 27, 2015.

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Usually the Bruins don't play well in the game after Thanksgiving day but they played all right today as their power-play led the way to a 4-3 win over the Rangers. With this win, the Bruins are now on a 5-game winning streak.

Quick game summary
In the first period, Bruins Patrice Bergeron scored his 8th goal of the season, making the score 1-0 Bruins.

In the second period, Rangers Oscar Lindberg scored, tying the game 1-1. Later, Rangers Rick Nash scored, making the score 2-1 Rangers. Bruins Matt Beleskey finished a check, which looked to be semi-late, on Rangers Derek Stepan who went down, and Rangers Dylan McIlrath instigated a fight with Beleskey. Later, Bruins Brett Connolly scored his 5th goal of the season, a power-play goal, tying the game 2-2.

In the third period, Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist sold a goalie interference call with some good acting, no doubt there was contact but the embellishment would make Montreal proud, and the Rangers would score on that upcoming power-play, as Rangers J.T. Miller scored a power-play goal, making the score 3-2 Rangers. Later, Bruins Ryan Spooner scored his 5th goal of the season, a power-play goal, tying the game up 3-3. Less than three minutes later, Bruins David Krejci scored his 9th goal of the season, making the score 4-3 Bruins.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 24 saves on 27 shots. Rask is now 8-7-1 with a 2.94 GAA and a .899 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game in shots 34-27 and hits 24-23. The Rangers led the game in blocked shots 15-13. Both teams had 30 faceoff wins each. The Bruins went 2-for-3 on the power-play while the Rangers went 1-for-3.

Patrice Bergeron led the Bruins with 6 shots. Matt Beleskey led the Bruins with 5 hits each. Torey Krug and Zach Trotman led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots.

Joe Morrow, Tyler Randell and Max Talbot were scratched and did not play.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 13-8-1 with 27 points this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Wednesday when they visit the Edmonton Oilers at 9:30pm ET.