Jets beat Bruins in shootout 5-4


Boston Bruins Game 75: Boston Bruins @ Winnipeg Jets game recap video, on March 27, 2018.
On Tuesday, the Bruins visited the Winnipeg Jets and ended up losing in a shootout 5-4.

Quick game summary
In the first period, at 5:33, Jets Brandon Tanev scored, giving the Jets a 1-0 lead. At 19:07, Bruins Ryan Donato scored his 3rd goal of the season, tying the game 1-1.

In the second period, at 0:16, Jets Brandon Tanev scored, giving the Jets a 2-1 lead. At 6:25, Jets Joe Morrow scored, giving the Jets a 3-1 lead.

In the third period, at 1:45, Bruins Danton Heinen scored his 14th goal of the season, a power-play goal, cutting the Jets lead to 3-2. At 3:36, Bruins David Pastrnak scored his 31st goal of the season, a power-play goal, tying the game 3-3. At 4:29, Jets Brandon Tanev scored a short-handed goal, giving the Jets a 4-3 lead. At 8:06, Bruins Torey Krug scored his 14th goal of the season, a power-play goal, tying the game 4-4.

In overtime, no scoring happened.

In the shootout, in the first round, Bruins Ryan Donato scored; in the second round, Jets Mark Scheifele scored; in the fourth round, Jets Patrik Laine scored, which would end up being the game-winning goal for the Jets.

Game notes
Anton Khudobin played in net and made 28 saves on 32 shots. Khudobin is now 15-6-6 with a 2.53 GAA and a .915 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game in hits 24-23. The Jets led the game with a 51% faceoff percentage and in blocked shots 17-11. Both teams had 32 shots. The Bruins went 3-for-5 on the power-play while the Jets went 0-for-1.

David Pastrnak led the Bruins with 8 shots. Sean Kuraly led the Bruins with 6 hits.

David Backes, Jake DeBrusk, Rick Nash, Jordan Szwarz, Zdeno Chara, Charlie McAvoy and Paul Postma were scratched for the Bruins.

Three stars of the game
1) Jets forward Brandon Tanev
2) Jets forward Adam Lowry
3) Bruins forward Brad Marchand

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 47-17-11 with 105 points this season and are in 2nd place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 5-2-3 in their last ten games and their road record is now 22-10-6 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Thursday, when they host the Tampa Bay Lightning, at 7pm ET.

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