Highlights & Analysis: Bruins Dominate Canucks At TD Garden

Highlights & Analysis: Bruins Dominate Canucks At TD Garden

Pavo zaka scor gets into the second period wasn’t even the first goal of the period Morgan geeki Had scored before that 34 seconds in and that was the story tonight quick goals by the Bruins in the first and the second period all adding up to a 4 nothing win welcome to

Bruins overtime live presented by biot toyota.com Adam Peller and Billy jaffy Andrew Ray needed a response game they got it they did and Vancouver played the role of the Bruins against Calgary the other night and so I guess all’s fair in loving hockey right EXA coming as brick

Said coming out of the break especially and it just goes it just goes perfectly to how it happens it does happen to all these teams in the National the best team in the NHL the most points the most wins just came in here and laid an egg

Like the brues did two days ago so it’s a good reference point for all of us at times when you get frustrated with the hometown team I know I know ites count but I’m just pointing it out that that’s what it is because the Bruins took it to

Them right away they get their short-handed goals and then they they they cruised a victory which was nice to see them Cruise it was nice to see them Cruise cuz you don’t want to you want to bury this one right what they didn’t they what they did do is they didn’t

Hurt themselves at all in this game they didn’t allow Vancouver to get back into the game again just all kidding aside what Calgary did to Boston that’s right they started smothering them they started making sure the puck was in areas where they could get it and they

Never really got their Rhythm that last game the Bruins this game they got the Rhythm Vancouver never got their rhythm in this game never not at all well you think of the Bruins might be in trouble right 177 into the game the kcko on the power play spent time in the pregame

Show talking about how good the power play has been for them but then they get the short-handed goal and Brad Maran and the short-handed King scores his 25th of the year he is the active King there’s no question about start of the face off really nice play hampis lindol moving

His feet getting a little bit of open ice and it’s a little chip and thatr Demco here mishandles a play he would have liked to in hindsight he should be more patient make a direct pass make a direct play instead he rips it past his teammate and Mar She Bangs in the

Rebound yeah and one more time you know besser is number six he’s not a defenseman but he’s out there because they go with one D and four forwards here’s the play that puts Hughes into a bad spot but then Cole’s credit he gets it he’s thinking pass right away Pon

Just doesn’t Mark his man and and you know Marian literally is by himself and and Demco they’re all looking over there Demco can’t get it Bank controlled I mean off of his pad and he just goes upstairs on him but immediately Cole is sing hard bullet pass over there it

Beats two forwards Pon and Miller and right now the Bruins feel like okay we’re going to be all right they I mean you want to talk about changing the tener of the game like you said PK no problem shorty let’s go second short-handed goal of the year for Brad

Marsha and make it 35 in his career he’s the franchise leader he’s also the active leader in short-handed goals and so the Bruins take a quick one- nothing lead Charlie Coyle picking up an assist by the way extending his point streak and so the Bruins capitalize uh on a

Power play and then they capitalize again again on a can power play and this time it’s Dan Heinen no it was a beautiful solo effort from Dan Heinen Charlie Coyle again making a great play in the defensive Zone finding pen but Heinen just turns the Jets on he

Recognizes he’s got a FL that he’s up against pulls it to that forehand and an absolutely perfect shot beats stco I can’t emphasize enough here the importance of him actually going away from Pon on the back check watch right here he’s going to get you see how he

Goes away from him instead of attacking middle ice until he’s by him if he had tried to go right by him probably Pon could have whacked it uses the length of the stick maybe this low look will show it even better but the importance right here he goes to the outside a little

Then he comes back to the inside it’s a matter of well by the time he finishes maybe 5T but really it’s a matter of two feet separate don’t allow the guy to get the stick on Puck and then he uses one hand to bring the puck back in what a

Shot I mean what a what a great shot right there against arguably the best goalie like he’s you know that’s what happen by the way when you don’t hug your buddy at the allar game there we go learn hugging Karma 10th goal of the year for Dan n as we bring you our

Subaru star of the game we mentioned Charlie Cole picking up the assist on the Brad marshan short-handed goal got the assist on the Danton heining goal as well career high 10 game point streak you look at the numbers over the course of that streak and Charlie Coyle on Pace

For a career year offensively not only with the Bruins but in his career as well are you okay that we didn’t name mark the star of the game goalie Union sometimes a little dice I think leus is you know maybe his wife or his kids were in the building picking the first starts

Here in the building that’s Charlie Coyle with the point streak the heater he’s on that’s him all day and I’m not getting my goalie card revoked for that that’s that’s a you may be called before the board just for a conversation a letter in the mail a letter a letter in

The so the Bruins had scored quickly in that first period and then in the second period thought this was David pono’s goal at first the scoring change and Morgan geeki scores 34 seconds into the second an absolute Beauty the best part is he takes a hit

To make the play right you think pasta had something to do with it and said you know what I don’t want this one this is one of my good ones Morgan you can have it this is the best look Morgan just gets cross checked from behind and it

Hits off right there it hits off like the lower third of his shaft and then it carm’s off of the right skate right back pardon the left skate of of Myers into the net he’s got like OTS for skates he’s so big and it hits him and goes in

I mean listen it’s a fortuitous bounce but the old any sport cliche you earn your luck right they earn their life cuz you know why good face off play exactly a good Faceoff play and that that’s what set it all up they got a little bit of

Room for me for everybody for pasta for geeky and uh sometimes you need that luck ninth goal of the year for geeky matching his career high and Sophia caught up with him after the game obviously a big win for your team I want to get into the details but let’s

Start with a lot of what you guys talked about was this being a bounceback game how much of an effect or how much of a motivation did Tuesday have on today’s performance yeah I think quite a lot um you know that kind of performance from us you know is unacceptable unacceptable

In our room and um I think it kind of showed tonight the response that that we can have and the team we can play like so they’re a good team over there I thought we played really well you know for 60 minutes and uh you know we came

Out onp yeah they’re a great team maybe you guys were expecting a little bit more of a push back from them but two short-handed goals early might do that might deflate a team how do you play and make sure you keep good habits when it’s for nothing and they’re not scoring

Right you don’t want to sit back and get comfortable so how does a team what’s the approach the mentality where do you find that motivation from uh you know I think our coaching staff harps on that a lot and I think it speaks to the accountability and and the type of

Players we have in that room um you know whether it’s you know 21 or 5 nothing um you know I think we kind of try to play the same way and and you know if you’re slacking on the details you’re going to hear about it you know and and um that’s

Just kind of the camarad we have camaraderie we have and and the way we uh we approach things so we’re just going to you know keep rolling and it’s awesome when the entire team Buys in and finally 17 shots on net just for the Vancouver Canucks coming into this one

They were the best team in the league sense of Pride there just keeping them to to so few shots yeah for sure um you know we we know we can play solid defensively and that leads to a lot of our offense and and holding on to pucks

You know our D do a great job of you know getting pucks out for us and obviously Lan us and and you know sway when and that D do a great job for us so uh you know we’re glad we could we get Len us a shut out tonight and and you

Know just keep moving into the next game all right thanks for your time thank you thank you Morgan geeky after the game ra as you talking earlier it was nice to see the Bruins Cruise right in that third period Well their details were very good defens great I mean listen it

Was a cruise control third but what did they the four shots four shots in the first four shots in the third now meanwhile a low event third period in general the Bruns had a whopping total of six but the way that they made sure that they protect protected middle ice

They had sticks down they did all the little things like here just sealing walls and then stepping up coming up right there pushing there see the sticks again everything’s to the outside everything’s above stick the puck you know and here you go supporting again here you go corralling getting pucks out

Of the way not allowing for Vancouver even if they don’t make a big comeback but just even feel a little bit good you help get your golender the shut out they did a lot of smart detail oriented work in the third oh exactly and they just a

Simple play by lenus keeping the puck moving there’s 24 seconds on a power play he wants to keep the moving doesn’t want to have a face off and then un fortunately for us we get the period over with a little bit quicker too but a really hey play seemed like everybody

Was dialed in tonight in that third period it’s just a mat like there was no loss of focus not even first a shift not even for half a shift where they we wanted them to stay out of the box they stay out of the box so now their PK goes

Three for three they get a little confidence from that uh they get the shut out they get a little bit of confidence of that and so everybody gets ice time everybody body plays their extra 2 and 1/2 minutes the big guys rest the 2 and A2 minutes nobody’s

Blocking shots on a penalty kill all little details that that can compound over the next two months in periods like that just the second time this year the Canucks have been shut out yeah the first time was the third game of the season back on October 17th it’s been a

While I guarantee you they’re going to have the exact you could take the Bruins postgame comments from Tuesday and just put the Canuck Mouse Moving on it they’re going to say the same thing they’re like embarrassing unacceptable it but it happens Bruins did it to a

Real good team all right enjoy it for tonight get ready to move on for Saturday all right we’re just getting started here on Bruins overtime live get more reaction from the room their shutout win over the Canucks Andy Brickley going one-on-one with head coach Jim Montgomery and coming up later

On postgame final we’ll take a look at the career of former Bruin Graham townin who is Journey to the NHL began in Kingston Jamaica you don’t want to miss his inspirational story yeah

Highlights and analysis from the Boston Bruins dominant win over the Vancouver Canucks on February 8th, 2024.

Boston Bruins goals:

Brad Marchand (25, SH), Danton Heinen (10, SH), Morgan Geekie (9), Pavel Zacha (12)

Boston Bruins goalie:

Linus Ullmark (17 Saves on 17 shots)

Vancouver Canucks goalie:

Thatcher Demko (21 Saves on 25 shots)