Boston Bruins Game 69: Boston Bruins @ Florida Panthers game recap video, on March 15, 2018.
Quick game summary
In the first period, at 6:25, Panthers Aaron Ekblad scored, giving the Panthers a 1-0 lead. At 9:06, Panthers Nick Bjugstad scored, giving the Panthers a 2-0 lead. At 17:56, Bruins David Backes got a match penalty for his hit on Panthers Vincent Trocheck and also got into a fight against Panthers Mike Matheson after the hit.
In the second period, at 14:07, Panthers Vincent Trocheck scored a power-play goal, giving the Panthers a 3-0 lead.
In the third period, no scoring happened.
Game notes
Anton Khudobin played in net and made 25 saves on 28 shots.
The Bruins led the game in shots 46-28 and hits 24-23. The Panthers led the game with a 53% faceoff percentage and in blocked shots 18-10. The Bruins went 0-for-4 on the power-play while the Panthers went 1-for-2.
Torey Krug led the Bruins with 8 shots. Adam McQuaid led the Bruins with 6 hits and 3 blocked shots.
Patrice Bergeron, Jake DeBrusk, Anton Blidh, Zdeno Chara, Charlie McAvoy and Paul Postma were scratched for the Bruins.
Three stars of the game
1) Panthers goalie James Reimer
2) Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad
3) Panthers forward Evgenii Dadonov
Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 44-17-8 with 96 points this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Saturday, when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning, at 7pm ET.
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