BOSTON — The Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs mixed for 91 hits and 55 photographs on purpose in Boston’s 4-1 victory at TD Backyard on Thursday evening.
Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery mentioned he thought Boston began the sport on time and didn’t shrink back from contact.
“I assumed we had been actually bodily to begin the sport,” Montgomery informed reporters. “I assumed we had been ending checks and I assumed in flip after we bought the lead and the sport bought out of hand (the Leafs) bought bodily, in that, possibly attempting to ship a message, possibly for the playoffs. Probably, if the playoffs began in the present day, we’d be taking part in them. I preferred our physicality, however theirs was a little bit too late.”
Jeremy Swayman made 28 saves for his second victory over Toronto in 4 days. He credited his teammates with the dominant wins towards the Maple Leafs and the additional time loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday evening.
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“I feel taking part in 60 minutes constantly, and that’s three video games in a row for us,” Swayman mentioned after the sport. “That’s actually vital for our group coming on this level within the season and one thing we might positively construct on as a momentum booster.”
Boston bought objectives from David Pastrnak, Trent Frederic, Morgan Geekie and Brandon Carlo within the matchup. Carlo emphasised the best way the staff sport the Bruins performed.
“I felt like they got here out and tried to have some push at occasions, however I felt like we dealt with that actually effectively,” Carlo mentioned. “Received all 5 guys in there in sure conditions and made it recognized that that wasn’t going to be the best way that issues had been gonna go tonight.
“We weren’t going to permit them to push us round. I used to be actually pleased with our group with the best way that we performed behind as effectively and achieved the job tonight. I assumed we performed a full 60 minutes and that was good to construct in direction of what we’re attempting to perform in a while.”
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Up to now three video games, the Bruins have allowed simply three regulation objectives from their opponents, which Montgomery attests to Boston getting again to its checking sport.
“I feel everyone realized that we weren’t being sharp,” Montgomery mentioned. I can’t give sufficient credit score to our leaders. They maintain everybody within the room accountable, and other people comply with go well with as a result of we do have good leaders, and we do have actual good individuals beneath them which might be some leaders.”
Listed below are extra notes from Thursday’s Bruins-Maple Leafs sport:
— Carlo’s fourth purpose of the season got here with 1:37 left to play within the second interval. The 6-foot-5 defenseman despatched a wrist shot previous Joesph Woll to present the Bruins the 4-1 lead.
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“Put it in direction of the web. I noticed Charlie Coyle was sort of tipping and he had an awesome display screen there,” Carlo defined. “When you will have these alternatives; it’s occurred a few occasions this yr after we put it within the path and it will get tipped or whatnot, however fortunately, it was in a position to go in for me tonight.”
— Boston swept the season collection with Toronto by defeating the Maple Leafs 3-2 in a shootout on Nov. 2, 4-3 in additional time on Dec. 2 and two 4-1 victories on Mar. 4 and seven. The Bruins have prolonged their profitable streak to seven video games, which started within the 2022 season. Toronto final defeated Boston on Nov. 22, 2022.
— With the win the Bruins improved to 37-13-15 total, 14-3-3 towards Atlantic Division opponents and 21-9-5 in matchups within the Jap Convention.
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— The Bruins will host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday afternoon. Puck drop from TD Backyard is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET and can air on ABC. Bruins motion will return to NESN on Monday when Boston hosts the St. Louis Blues.