Jets beat Bruins 6-2, snap 13-game losing streak in Boston
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Boston missed the postseason for the first time since 2007 despite a 41-27-14 record. Chara will be 39 before the regular season ends.
Spooner and Connolly combined on a couple scoring chances during the middle portion of the second period.
But hey, it’s why they play the games. Quick followed with 72, while Bruins starter Tuukka Rask finished third with 70.
The Jets return to action tomorrow in New Jersey. Only the Capitals were in the playoffs, and they lost in the second round. This was largely due to the lack of a reliable backup, but this season may play out differently in front of the net. Nowadays that’s pretty tough to accomplish.
“You don’t come into camp thinking about that”, he said. The 18-year-old spent last season with Sault Ste. Rinaldo was a quiet acquisition from Philadelphia, where he tallied over 250 penalty minutes in his last two seasons in Philly. “I think we can reduce the amount of games that Tuukka had to play from a year ago”.
For the interim you can call them undefeated.
The Jets are trying to build on last season’s playoff appearance – their first since moving to Winnipeg before the 2011-12 season. A big reason for their success was the goaltending tandem of Ondrej Pavelec and Michael Hutchinson. Unfortunately both will need to excel early and often. 1 and 1-A tandem.
“I think one thing when it comes to leadership, you can’t force the issue”, said Krug. “Every single team that’s won in this league has two goalies; it doesn’t matter what the playing ratio is”. However, if the Bruins do not make the playoffs this season it might not come as such a surprise. But the Jets then struck at 5:26 and 9:17.Scheifele took a pass from defenseman Dustin Byfuglien and beat a screened Rask for the first goal.
Drew Stafford has done plenty of damage to the Bruins over the years. “That’s usually a real good sign”.
Without the luxury of having a Brodeur-type goalie in net, Maurice is confident in his tandem.
“The young guys now have been kind of accepted”.
“That’s how tight the National Hockey League is”, Beleskey said.
“It’s not about youth, it’s not about young Ds, it’s about our game without the puck”, Julien said. The puck took a great bounce off the boards and found its way to the empty net for the sixth Winnipeg goal of the game. Ask was a brick wall that season and he got even better a year later – but things have fallen off a bit since then. Pieces bigger than their Chara in the lineup that if they aren’t on their game the things he goes south and hurry. We’re not saying that this is it, and this is what we’re going with for the whole season.
“So as the year went on, it certainly paid dividends for us”.
The Bruins now get the fun consolation game of playing Montreal on October 10th. It wasn’t all Pavelec’s fault – Anaheim was clearly the better team.
The first line of Beleskey, Krejci, and Pastrnak had been the most effective pairing for the Bruins, and scored their second goal of the game to cut the lead to one goal. He has the ability to shoot the puck, break out of the defensive zone easily and showed the awareness to play well defensively that was presumed to be a glaring weakness for him. The two have been so good, for so long, and in Chara’s case, he’s defied age and breakdown longer than many of us expected. “It’s up to him how he works hard on and off the ice”. In 46 games past year the rookie had 10 goals and I feel he will take huge step forward.
When is the last time the Jets had contributions like this?