Game 1: Boston Bruins @ Tampa Bay Lightning game recap video, on April 28, 2018.
On Saturday in game 1, the Bruins were able to defeat the Tampa Bay Lightning by a 6-2 score.
Quick game summary
In the first period, at 17:11, Bruins Rick Nash scored his 2nd goal of the playoffs, a power-play goal, giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead.
In the second period, at 0:42, Bruins Patrice Bergeron scored his 2nd goal of the playoffs, giving the Bruins a 2-0 lead. At 2:31, Lightning Dan Girardi scored, cutting the Bruins lead to 2-1. At 12:33, Bruins Rick Nash scored his 3rd goal of the playoffs, giving the Bruins a 3-1 lead. At 13:22, Lightning Mikhail Sergachev scored a power-play goal, cutting the Bruins lead to 3-2.
In the third period, at 3:32, Bruins Brad Marchand scored his 4th goal of the playoffs, giving the Bruins a 4-2 lead. At 10:11, Bruins Patrice Bergeron scored his 3rd goal of the playoffs, giving the Bruins a 5-2 lead. At 13:41, Bruins Jake DeBrusk scored his 6th goal of the playoffs, giving the Bruins a 6-2 lead.
Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 34 saves on 36 shots. Rask is now 5-3 with a 2.81 GAA and a .906 save percentage in the playoffs this year.
The Bruins led the game in blocked shots 21-6. The Lightning led the game with a 51% faceoff percentage, in shots 36-24 and hits 33-27. The Bruins went 1-for-1 on the power-play while the Lightning went 1-for-3.
Patrice Bergeron led the Bruins with 5 shots. Charlie McAvoy led the Bruins with 5 hits. David Backes and Zdeno Chara led the Bruins with 4 blocked shots.
Ryan Donato, Brian Gionta, Tommy Wingels, Brandon Carlo and Nick Holden were scratched for the Bruins.
Three stars of the game
1) Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron
2) Bruins forward Rick Nash
3) Bruins forward David Pastrnak
Onto the next one
The Bruins now lead the playoff series 1-0. Game 2 is in Tampa Bay, on Monday, at 7pm ET. The Bruins are now 5 wins down and need 11 more wins to bring the Stanley Cup back to Boston.
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