Bruins beat Penguins, win 4th straight game

Pittsburgh Penguins @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on November 24, 2017.

The day after Thanksgiving usually brings a bad effort by the Bruins in past seasons for as long as I can remember but today it was different. The Bruins played a good game against the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins and held on for a 4-3 win, getting their 4th win in a row and sending the Penguins to their 3rd loss in a row. Bruins backup goalie Anton Khudobin stays undefeated in regulation this season with a 7-0-2 record.

Quick game summary
In the first period, at 6:13, Bruins David Krejci scored his 2nd goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead. At 10:51, Bruins Sean Kuraly scored his 3rd goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 2-0 lead.

In the second period, at 1:02, Penguins Jake Guentzel scored a power-play goal, cutting the Bruins lead to 2-1. At 10:31, Bruins Matt Grzelcyk scored his 1st goal of the season, which was also his first career NHL goal, giving the Bruins a 3-1 lead. At 14:07, Penguins Phil Kessel scored, cutting the Bruins lead to 3-2. At 17:44, Penguins Sidney Crosby scored, tying the game 3-3.

In the third period, at 5:06, Bruins David Pastrnak scored his 11th goal of the season, giving the Bruins a 4-3 lead.

Game notes
Anton Khudobin played in net and made 17 saves on 20 shots. Khudobin is now 7-0-2 with a 2.22 GAA and a .932 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game with a 52% faceoff percentage, in shots 33-20 and blocked shots 18-11. The Penguins led the game in hits 38-23. The Bruins went 0-for-2 on the power-play while the Penguins went 1-for-1.

Sean Kuraly and David Pastrnak led the Bruins with 5 shots each. Noel Acciari led the Bruins with 5 hits. Danton Heinen led the Bruins with 4 blocked shots.

Brad Marchand, Matt Beleskey, Frank Vatrano and Paul Postma were scratched for the Bruins. David Backes is on the IR.

Three stars of the game
1) Bruins forward Jake DeBrusk
2) Penguins forward Sidney Crosby
3) Bruins forward David Krejci

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 10-7-4 with 24 points this season and are in 3rd place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 5-4-1 in their last ten games and their home record is now 6-3-2 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Sunday, when they host the Edmonton Oilers, at 5pm ET.