MacArthur, Senators oust Bruins

Sunday, the 32-year-old winger scored a power-play goal 6:30 into overtime to give Ottawa a 3-2 Game 6 victory over the Boston Bruins that sent the Senators into the second round.

The Boston Bruins came into their 2017 postseason run with the statistical advantage over the Ottawa Senators. He knew, and said, that there would be growing pains. “And we made our way in”.

MacArthur played in the first four games of the 2015-16 season, and the last four games of 2016-17, and in between there wasn’t a whole lot of optimism.

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Playing with new enthusiasm and confidence, the B’s won their first four games under Cassidy and seven of their first eight. A few things stick out that the Bruins will need to do in order to pull out the win in game six.

If his on-ice play wasn’t brilliant enough, Karlsson also played the series with an injury. All six games against of this series were decided by a goal. MacArthur scored on the rebound of Bobby Ryan’s shot 36 seconds into the power play. It goes without saying that Ottawa fans are more than ready to see their team win it all.

Colin Miller saw time on the power play (62:13 PP Time On Ice) while Kevan logged a total of 23:39 of penalty kill Time On Ice, second-most on the team.

He stopped Kuznetsov again on a unsafe look and then Andre Burakovsky in the high slot as chants of “Freddy” came from a towel-waving Air Canada Centre crowd. Five-hole looks like a weak attempt when it fails … The game didnt end until 11:46 p.m. Friday when forward Boston Sean Kuraly scored the victor after the club lost a faceoff in its own zone and just about everything went wrong. “It’s a good, competitive series”. Brad Marchand assisted on both of Boston’s markers, giving him four points in six playoff games this year.

There was a record number of overtime games in the first round with 18.

Anderson made 28 saves in Game 6 while Rask made 26. He can be a fiery guy, he’s got a lot of emotion, but he’s really grown into somebody who knows how to use his emotion and when to keep it aside. I thought they did very well. “So I understand his situation [of feeling like it’s his fault] but we are a team”, said Tuukka Rask. “I think it shows in the way we responded and the way we played”. And there’s also coaches Guy Boucher and Marc Crawford. After an erratic first four months under Julien, in which the B’s squandered so many easily attainable points that a playoff berth was very much in doubt, Cassidy stepped in February 7 and clearly brought significant change. “The two big goals he scored in these playoffs is part of special moments”. “I think we scored goals when it mattered the most and fortunately that’s why we’re heading to playing hockey in May”. “We were able to find a way to come out here and make it go to overtime again”.

The Bruins made some bad decisions in the second period.

“We were climbing up hill, certainly, when he took over”, said Backes.

Shawn Hutcheon is the Boston Correspondent for The Fourth Period.