Boston Bruins v. St. Louis Blues
Game 3 – Series Tied 1-1
Game Recap:
Heading into the Game 3 the St. Louis Bues come home with the momentum in the corner after taking Game 2 in boston to even the series with the Bruins. The game would start off physically, and would see the Blues start with five straight shots, but when they had the chance to take the lead while on the powerplay they failed to do so. The Bruins on the other hand would not let their opportunity be squandered as Patrice Bergeron would redirect a Torey Krug point shot past Jordan Binnington to take the 1-0 lead. That goal would open the flood gates as the Bruins would score two more this period starting with Marcus Johansson feeding Charlie Coyle a one timer to make it a two goal lead. Then Sean Kuraly would shoot one right through the five hole of Binnington to make it 3-0. However, the Blues would challenge as it seemed Joakim Nordstrom was in the Blues’s zone before the puck was, but after review it was shown that Joel Edmundson pushed the puck back into the zone thus nullifying the offsides call.
Going into the second period the Bruins would strike again in the first minute of the period as David Pastrnak would collect the rebound in front of the net and backhand it past Binnington to make it 4-0. However, the Blues would finally get on the board as Ivan Barbashev would net his second of the playoffs to cut the lead to three, but the Bruins would respond again on their third powerplay as Torey Krug would shoot one past Binnington to get their four goal lead back and would force Craig Berube to put Jake Allen in net for the Blues as the Bruins lead 5-1 going into the second intermission.
In the third period things would get very chippy as we would see three penalties called in the first 91 seconds. Then Zdeno Chara would take an ill advised roughing call which would lead to a Colton Parayko powerplay goal to cut the Bruins lead to three. Then late in the period Noel Acciari would score on the empty net to ice the game, but Alex Pietrangelo would take a stupid slashing penalty and the Bruins would go a perfect 4 for 4 on the powerplay when Marcus Johansson would score on the powerplay off of the one timer from Torey Krug. Boston would win the game 7-2 to take the 2-1 series lead.
Lineups:
Boston Bruins:
Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron — David Pastrnak
Jake DeBrusk — David Krejci — David Backes
Marcus Johansson — Charlie Coyle — Danton Heinen
Joakim Nordstrom — Sean Kuraly — Noel Acciari
Zdeno Chara — Charlie McAvoy
Torey Krug — Brandon Carlo
John Moore — Connor Clifton
Tuukka Rask
Jaroslav Halak
Scratched: Steven Kampfer, Karson Kuhlman
Injured: Matt Grzelcyk (upper body) Chris Wagner (upper body), Kevan Miller (lower body)
St. Louis Blues:
Jaden Schwartz — Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko
Sammy Blais — Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron
Patrick Maroon — Tyler Bozak — Robby Fabbri
Zach Sanford — Ivan Barbashev — Alexander Steen
Carl Gunnarsson — Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko
Joel Edmundson — Robert Bortuzzo
Jordan Binnington
Jake Allen
Scratched: Michael Del Zotto, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn , Ville Husso
Injured: Vince Dunn (upper body), Robert Thomas (undisclosed)
Suspended: Oskar Sundqvist
First Period:
Bruins Penalty – 1:02 – Jake DeBrusk 2 minutes for Kneeing
Blues Penalty – 10:26 – David Perron 2 minutes for Interference
Bruins PPG – 10:47 – Patrice Bergeron (9) from Torey Krug (12) and Jake DeBrusk (6)
Bruins Penalty – 14:22 – Connor Clifton 2 minutes for Roughing
Blues Penalty – 14:22 – Ivan Barbashev 2 minutes Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Bruins Goal – 17:40 – Charlie Coyle (8) from Marcus Johansson (7) and Danton Heinen (6)
Bruins Goal – 19:50 – Sean Kuraly (4) from Joakim Nordstrom (4)
Blues Penalty – 19:50 – Bench (David Perron) 2 minutes for Delay of Game
End of 1st – BOS – 3 STL – 0
Shots 12 08
Faceoffs 12 08
Hits 16 14
PP 1/1 0/1
Second Period:
Bruins PPG – :41 – David Pastrnak (8) from Torey Krug (13) and Patrice Bergeron (6)
Bruins Penalty – 7:37 – Charlie McAvoy 2 minutes for Slashing
Bruins Penalty – 7:37 – Zdeno Chara 2 minutes for Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Blues Penalty – 7:37 – Pat Maroon 2 minutes for Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Blues Goal – 11:05 – Ivan Barbashev (3) from Zach Sanford (1) and Alexander Steen (3)
Blues Penalty – 11:41 – Colton Parayko 2 minutes for High Sticking
Bruins PPG – 12:12 – Torey Krug (2) from Brad Marchand (12 and Patrice Bergeron (7)
End of 2nd – BOS – 5 STL – 1
Shots 20 18
Faceoffs 21 17
Hits 25 27
PP 3/3 0/2
Third Period:
Blues Penalty – :54 – David Perron 2 minutes for Roughing
Bruins Penalty – :54 – Connor Clifton 2 minutes for Cross Checking
Bruins Penalty – 1:31 – Brandon Carlo 2 minutes for Interference
Bruins Penalty – 5:18 – Zdeno Chara 2 minutes for Roughing
Blues PPG – 5:24 – Colton Parayko (2) from Ryan O’Reilly (13) and Tyler Bozak (7)
Bruins Penalty – 6:04 – Jake DeBrusk 2 minutes for Delay of Game
Bruins ENG – 18:12 – Noel Acciari (2) from Joakim Nordstrom (5)
Blues Penalty – 18:12 – Alex Pietrangelo 2 minutes for Slashing
Bruins PPG – 1:35 – Marcus Johansson (4) from Torey Krug (14) and Connor Clifton (3)
End of 3rd – BOS – 7 STL – 2
Shots 24 29
Faceoffs 30 24
Hits 29 35
PP 4/4 1/5
Next Up:
Game 4 – BOS Leads 2-1
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