{"id":631969,"date":"2026-03-04T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/631969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:25:18","slug":"final-bruins-2-penguins-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/631969\/","title":{"rendered":"Final: Bruins 2, Penguins 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0Who<\/strong>: Penguins (31-15-13) vs. Bruins (33-21-5)
\u2022\u00a0What<\/strong>: NHL regular season, Game 60
\u2022\u00a0When<\/strong>: 7:08 p.m.
\u2022\u00a0Where<\/strong>: TD Garden
\u2022 Goaltenders<\/strong>: Stuart Skinner\u00a0<\/strong>(19-12-6, .891 SV%) vs.\u00a0Jeremy Swayman<\/strong> (22-13-3, .903 SV%)
\u2022 Stream:\u00a0<\/strong>ESPN+<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Out of market)
\u2022\u00a0Satellite:\u00a0<\/strong>SiriusXM 219<\/strong><\/a>
\u2022 TV:\u00a0<\/strong>SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>NESN<\/strong><\/a> (New England)
\u2022 Radio<\/strong>: Penguins Radio Network<\/strong><\/a>
\u2022 Boxscore<\/strong>: NHL.com<\/strong>
<\/a>\u2022 Media<\/strong> notes<\/strong>: Penguins<\/strong><\/a> | Bruins<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u25ba FOLLOW ALONG<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Minute and change.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two minutes to go. Forget this one. Boxed out. Like old times.<\/p>\n

\u2022 OK, getting goalied now. Swayman robs Karlsson right in front. Yikes. 8:28 left.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kindel nearly wraps a rebound around Swayman, quickly becoming the evening’s star.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Letang’s back on the rink after missing a shift.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The famous Karlsson deke draws a grab from Mittelstadt. Power play.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Third period’s underway. Here we go.<\/p>\n

\u2022 That’s period. Shots are 23-22 for Boston, but a way better period for the visitors. Only Swayman’s kept them from taking the lead.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mantha’s off for a cross-check. I thought those were legal now.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Karlsson fell not once but twice on that shift. Appeared to be a bad\/loose blade. He’s now gone back down the tunnel with the equipment staff.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chinakhov’s dangerous every shift now. Every single shift.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Great-looking power play. Really. Just not getting it by Swayman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Too many men against the Bruins.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Power play coming up for Boston. Chinakhov high-sticks Lohrei.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Karlsson bangs one off the bar. Good threat by the Geno line. Something’s happening.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Better beginning to the second. Not by a bunch.<\/p>\n

\u2022 That’s period. Shots are 12-7 for Boston. Man, do the Penguins not like when opponents pressure them. Main message so far.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Aspirot hauls down Kindel. Power play.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Crazy PK for four guys stuck out there for more than two minutes. Skinner was up to it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Letang blocks a Hampus Lindholm shot. Hobbled a bit. Bounces up.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Acciari briefly winds up one-on-one with Swayman but can’t get it through.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wow, nothing on Geekie. That’s legit strange. Power play for Boston.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clifton hogties Pastrnak, but then gets blasted from behind by Geekie. Should even it up.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chinakhov can’t beat Swayman on a breakaway backhander, having been sprung by Geno.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stuff’s settled a bit, but the Penguins still aren’t handling Boston’s forecheck — or pressure, in general — well at all. Been a while since I’ve seen this.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Muse wisely uses his timeout.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL<\/strong>. Boston again. Mittelstadt bangs home the easiest rebound of his life. Time: 6:00, first period. Bruins, 2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Really disjoined first few minutes to this game. Especially for the visitors. They’re a mess.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL<\/strong>. Eyssimont. Awful shift by Kindel’s new line, and a giveaway by Kindel himself. Sniped over Skinner’s blocker. Handed the gift right back. Tie, 1-1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mantha clean breakaway. Tries backhand. Nope.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nope. Only further reaffirming, nobody in this league has any idea what goaltender interference is. Presuming you saw J.T. Miller’s last night in Columbus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL<\/strong>. Karlsson with a long-range wrister from the right point. Naturally, it’s being challenged for goaltender interferenc. You know where this is headed, right?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yikes. Scary carom off the end boards, and Khusnutdinov has a great chance right away. Skinner stands square to it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 FACEOFF:\u00a0<\/strong>Penguins vs. Bruins, Novak vs. Lindholm, 7:08 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Couple tweaks from the skate to now: Acciari’s listed as a right winger, but I can tell you he told me himself he’ll likely be taking faceoffs. And the second\/third-pairing defensemen flipped.<\/p>\n

\u2022 K-Hayes alone going helmetless. I like it. Bobby Orr<\/strong>, baby.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Warmups underway. No surprises for the visitors.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dan Muse’s<\/strong> expected lines and pairings, based on the morning skate today:<\/p>\n

Egor Chinakhov-Tommy Novak-Evgeni Malkin
Rickard Rakell-Ben Kindel-Bryan Rust
Anthony Mantha-Kevin Hayes-Justin Brazeau
Avery Hayes-Connor Dewar-Noel Acciari<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parker Wotherspoon-Erik Karlsson
Sam Girard-Kris Letang
Ryan Shea-Connor Clifton<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Marco Sturm’s<\/strong> expected forward lines and defense pairings tonight, based on the Bruins’ full practice yesterday at Warrior Ice Arena:<\/p>\n

Marat Khusnutdinov-Elias Lindholm-David Pastrnak
Casey Mittelstadt-Pavel Zacha-Viktor Arvidsson
Mikey Eyssimont-Fraser Minten-Morgan Geekie
Tanner Jeannot-Sean Kuraly-Mark Kastelic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Aspirot-Charlie McAvoy
Hampus Lindholm-Mason Lohrei
Nikita Zadorov-Henri Jokiharju<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (31-15-13) vs. Bruins (33-21-5)\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 60\u2022\u00a0When: 7:08 p.m.\u2022\u00a0Where: TD Garden\u2022 Goaltenders: Stuart Skinner\u00a0(19-12-6,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":631970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[204012,293,204010,11065,269563,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-631969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-feed-article","tag-nhl","tag-on-location","tag-penguins","tag-site-stuff","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116171841781958613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}