Oilers end Bruins winning streak


Edmonton Oilers @ Boston Bruins game recap video, on November 26, 2017.
On Sunday, the Bruins hosted Milan Lucic and the Edmonton Oilers but unfortunately the Bruins fell 4-2 and had their winning streak end.

Quick game summary
In the first period, at 14:03, Bruins David Pastrnak scored his 12th goal of the season, a power-play goal, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead.

In the second period, at 9:50, Oilers Patrick Maroon scored, tying the game 1-1. At 14:20, Oilers Adam Larsson scored, giving the Oilers a 2-1 lead. At 15:31, Bruins David Krejci scored his 3rd goal of the season, tying the game 2-2.

In the third period, at 2:07, Oilers Ryan Strome scored, giving the Oilers a 3-2 lead. At 19:09, Oilers Leon Draisaitl scored an empty-net goal, giving the Oilers a 4-2 lead.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 32 saves on 35 shots. Rask is now 3-8-2 with a 2.91 GAA and a .899 save percentage this season.

The Oilers led the game with a 54% faceoff percentage, in shots 36-25, hits 31-27 and blocked shots 11-5. The Bruins went 1-for-2 on the power-play while the Oilers went 0-for-2.

Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci led the Bruins with 4 shots each. Zdeno Chara led the Bruins with 6 hits.

Brad Marchand, Peter Cehlarik, Ryan Spooner and Paul Postma were scratched for the Bruins. David Backes is on the IR.

Three stars of the game
1) Oilers forward Patrick Maroon
2) Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl
3) Bruins defenseman Torey Krug

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 10-8-4 with 24 points this season and are in 4th place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 5-4-1 in their last ten games and their home record is now 6-4-2 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Wednesday, when they host the Tampa Bay Lightning, at 7:30pm ET.

Comments