The Bruins shut out Buffalo on Clifton’s birthday last year. Boston was 1-1 in Krejci’s previous birthday games, beating Tampa Bay in 2018 and losing to Ottawa in 2013. … Bruins C David Krejci (37) and D Connor Clifton (28) had birthdays on Friday. … Florida forward Ryan Lomberg (upper body) missed his second consecutive game. That’s one behind New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur for 13th-most with one franchise. It was captain Patrice Bergeron’s 1,463rd game with the Bruins, including the playoffs. “We know that there’s going to be a war out there,” Ullmark said. To Sunday they go, Florida on the brink of a surprise and Boston trying to avoid a collapse.
Boston pulled Ullmark twice with hopes of netting the equalizer, getting good looks at it in the final minute.īut Bobrovsky and Florida's defense held firm, and Reinhart finished it off. “They're a determined group,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said of Florida.īoston went up 4-3 on a power-play score from Pastrnak, Dalpe tied it for Florida, DeBrusk scored short-handed for a 5-4 lead, and Tkachuk got his second of the night 27 seconds later to tie it again.Īnd less than 4 minutes later, Luostarinen made it 6-5 - the Panthers back on top with 5:38 left, a sellout crowd in Sunrise waiving white towels in unison. They combined for four goals in a span of 6:56 - this time, with the Panthers answering the Bruins. The game started along the exact sequence that Game 5 in Boston did on Wednesday night: Florida took a 1-0 lead, Boston tied it, Florida took a 2-1 lead, Boston tied it, Florida took a 3-2 lead, Boston tied it.Įvidently, that’s when the teams decided a repeat performance was boring. “And it comes down to a Game 7 where we're up for elimination now.” “We worked all year to get home-ice advantage,” DeBrusk said. Not even three power-play goals and one short-handed tally was enough to give Boston a win, either. The Bruins had the best regular-season record in NHL history, and they had one-goal leads on two separate occasions in the third period - and couldn’t hold either one of them. Jake DeBrusk also scored for the Bruins.īoston finished 42 points ahead of Florida in the standings this season, the biggest gap between playoff opponents in nearly 30 years. Tyler Bertuzzi and David Pastrnak each scored twice for Boston, which got four assists from Brad Marchand and 26 saves from Linus Ullmark. Reinhart closed it out with an empty-netter with 28 seconds left - the seventh and final goal of the third period, four of those scores by Florida. Motorcyclist killed in early-morning crash in Lancasterīarkov, Brandon Montour, Zac Dalpe and Sam Reinhart also scored for the Panthers, who got 30 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky.
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