BOSTON (AP) — Playing without two key injured stars
Womens Alex Goligoski Jersey , the Boston Bruins have relied on their goaltending to get wins lately.Jaroslav Halak stopped 24 shots, and David
Pastrnak had a goal and two assists to lead the Bruins to a 3-1 win over the
Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night.“I really wanted him to get another shutout,”
David Krejci said. “Both goaltenders have been really good with (Zdeno Chara)
and (Patrice) Bergeron out of the lineup.”Bergeron has missed the last 15 games
and is anticipating a return this weekend. Chara has missed the last 16 games
while Boston has gone 9-6-1 in that span.Torey Krug had a goal and an assist and
Krejci also scored to help Boston snap a nine-game losing streak to Anaheim and
win for the fifth time in seven games.“We don’t see them too often so it was
nice to flip the script,” Krug said.Ducks defenseman Josh Mahura got his first
career goal with 4:16 remaining to spoil Halak’s bid for a second straight
shutout. John Gibson finished with 28 saves as Anaheim lost its second straight
after winning nine of 10.“We didn’t play anywhere near we were capable of,”
Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. “Didn’t think we had much pushback in the third
which was disappointing.”Pastrnak’s power-play goal broke a scoreless tie when
he one-timed Krug’s pass past Gibson at 7:19 of the second period. With his
assists on the other two goals, he has 14 points in his past eight games.Halak
made the save of the game with 6:31 remaining in the second when he stoned
Brandon Montour robbing him with a glove save.Krug increased Boston’s lead to
2-0 on the power play when he converted a feed from Brad Marchand past Gibson
with 1:55 remaining in the second.“We didn’t have the same intensity as we’ve
had,” Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano said. “No excuse.We are a few games away
from Christmas break and we let a few games get away after we had a good thing
going.”Krejci added an insurance goal 5:21 into the third to cap the scoring for
Boston, which shut out Montreal in its previous game.NOTES: Anaheim and
Minnesota are the only two teams to have a winning record in Boston. … Krejci
recorded his 600th NHL point and has eight points in his last six games. … David
Backes recorded his 300th NHL assist and Krug recorded his 200th assist for the
Bruins. … Anaheim has totaled two goals in the two games.UP NEXTDucks: Visit
Buffalo on Saturday.Bruins: Host Nashville on Saturday UNIONDALE
Christian Dvorak Jersey , N.Y. — The first game of the season between the New York Islanders and Columbus Blue Jackets matches two Metropolitan Division
contenders in a clash that could certainly impact the playoff picture come
April.But everyone knows the main attraction Saturday night will not be the
teams but the building in which they’re playing.The Islanders make their
long-awaited return to Nassau Coliseum, which was the franchise’s home from the
team’s debut in 1972 until the spring of 2015, when they host the Blue
Jackets.Article continues below ...Both teams were off Friday after playing
Thursday, when the Islanders fell to the host Boston Bruins 2-1 in a shootout
and the Blue Jackets beat the visiting Minnesota Wild 4-2.The Blue Jackets
(15-8-2) and Islanders (12-9-3) will enter Saturday separated by just five
points. But the standings will be secondary for the first of the Islanders’ 21
scheduled games at their new/old home.As Islanders coach Barry Trotz walked into
his post-practice press conference Friday afternoon, he began talking about the
Coliseum before he even fielded a question.“It’s home,” Trotz said. “Guys are
excited. They did a good job. Looking forward to tomorrow. I think everybody
is.”Well, maybe not everybody. In typical John Tortorella fashion, the Blue
Jackets head coach — who spent dozens of nights in the cramped bowels of the
Coliseum as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers — was
decidedly less nostalgic when talking about the Coliseum earlier Friday.“I’m
anxious to see the renovations
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instead of a 40-watt bulb, they put in maybe a 75-watt bulb because you couldn’t
see.”Everyone figured Nassau Coliseum — long a relic among NHL arenas for
reasons well beyond its damp and darkened locker rooms — was finally and
officially a thing of the past when the Islanders moved to Barclays Center in
Brooklyn for the 2015-16 season.But Islanders fans, most of whom reside on Long
Island, never warmed to the idea of taking oft-delayed trains or enduring
traffic jam-filled commutes to Brooklyn. Nor did they enjoy the lack of
atmosphere at Barclays Center, which was built for basketball and “features” an
off-center scoreboard as well as thousands of obstructed view seats behind one
of the goals.In three-plus seasons at Barclays Center, the Islanders have never
ranked higher than 28th in the NHL in average attendance.Nor did
players
Youth Derek Stepan Jersey , most of whom also reside on Long Island, ever really embrace the commute or the substandard conditions. The Barclays ice is
known as the softest in the league because the building is heated by plastic
pipes, not metal pipes, and to refit the building with metal pipes would require
closing the arena during the summer concert season.The Islanders began plotting
their return to Long Island last December, when owners Jon Ledecky and Scott
Malkin won a bid to build an arena on state land currently housing the Belmont
race track at the Nassau/Queens border.In January, the Islanders announced they
would split their schedules between Barclays Center and a refurbished Nassau
Coliseum, which is operated by the same management company as Barclays Center,
until they are ready to move into the new arena at the start of the 2021-22
season.While nothing is official
Womens Jason Demers Jersey , it is widely believed the Islanders will play their entire home schedule at the Coliseum starting next season. The new
Coliseum only seats 13,000, but a packed Coliseum will look much better than a
nearly-empty Barclays, where this year’s average announced attendance of 10,447
said one thing and the eye test scanning acres of empty seats said another.“I
think the guys that have played in this building have really great memories of
it,” Trotz said. “I think everybody recognizes that it has great significance on
the Island and for its fan base.”There’s a little bit of serendipity to
Saturday’s festivities. The Blue Jackets were the opponent for the Islanders’
supposed regular-season finale at the Coliseum on April 11, 2015, when Columbus
posted a 5-4 shootout victory.And Trotz
Paul Thompson Jersey Womens , in his first year as New York’s head coach, was the head coach for the Washington Capitals during the supposed final
game at the Coliseum on April 25, 2015, when the Islanders extended an Eastern
Conference quarterfinal series to a decisive seventh game with a 3-1 win.Cal
Clutterbuck, who iced that win with an empty-netter in the final minute, is one
of nine players from that team still with the Islanders. “I remember being at
the press conference (at the Coliseum) for the Belmont announcement and talking
about potentially coming back here for some games and here we are,” Clutterbuck
said. “So it’s exciting.”
