TORONTO (AP) – After they were asked to return the next morning because the game lasted five extra times, the Boston Bruins didn’t need to repeat the story so quickly.
“We talked about finishing this before the fifth extra time,” Bergeron said.
Bergeron completed that by scoring early in overtime, and the Bruins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 Wednesday in the first game of their first-round series that was postponed from 3 p.m. to a rare start late in the morning.
The game is scheduled for 8 p.m. On Tuesday night, at 11 a.m., the first game in the Columbus Blue Jackets-Tampa Bay Lightning series has become the fourth-longest playoff game in NHL history. Playing each and every Eastern Conference game at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena had this perspective for games that would have interrupted the calendar for a long time.
“We knew it was a possibility,” bergeron said, whose four playoff goals are Patrick Kane’s time among active players. “You didn’t expect five extra times, but having said that, we knew it was part of having a tournament like this on an ice rink and being in a position for those who didn’t expect it.”
The first Hurricanes-Bruins game was not the same marathon with Bergeron scoring 1:13 in overtime. But there was a lot of theater, from Carolina’s wonderful scratches to a debatable lens and a video review.
Much has been replaced since those groups faced off in the 2019 Eastern Conference finals, but Boston continued to dominate more than a year after sweeping Carolina. The Bruins temporarily recovered from losing all-in-all’s all-to-all all games and passed the Hurricanes their first loss since hockey returned.
“As a group, we didn’t like our efforts and we haven’t done some of the things we’re known for and what makes us a wonderful team,” Said Carolina Captain Jordan Staal. “I think there were adjustments here and there. They played a smart game. We have to be better, obviously, if we have to beat the best.”
Joel Edmundson, who was not with the Hurricanes last year and joined them in the St. Louis Blues industry after winning the Stanley Cup, scored the first goal of the game, and fellow defender Haydn Fleury tied for 3 in the third. after David Krejci put the Bruins at the head.
Fleury would have been excluded from the lineup without the astonishing scratch of Sami Vatanen, who along with the Justin Williams winger solved the set time according to coach Rod Brind’Amour.
“We adjusted, ” said Brind’Amour. “I hope you can pass there (in Thursday’s game).
After Boston’s fearsome front row, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak scored their first goal in The Fourth Game of the NHL Comeback expired in the first period, Charlie Coyle gave the Bruins a 4:38 lead in the second. Goalkeeper Petr Mrazek livid and Brind’Amour challenged the idea of the Hurricanes: a failed pass through Boston’s Brett Ritchie.
Officials at the Nhl and the stage room judged that Mrazek, who was looking for the canopy of the record, canceled the hand pass. On the ice, no whistle was thrown for Mrazek to freeze the game, so Coyle drove it and the purpose cleared, and Carolina penalized for the failed challenge.
“That call, I mean to get the penalty, I still can’t sense it,” Brind’Amour said.
Later, after the post-match Zoom conference, Brind’Amour called the beatwriters.
“That’s why the league is a joke, in my opinion, about those things,” Brind’Amour told The News and Observer. “This is a crime scene.”
The NHL fined Brind’Amour with $25,000 for those comments, and said he also imposed a $25,000 conditional penalty, which will be charged, in addition to any upcoming disciplinary action, on the occasion of a point-like habit next year.
Brock McGinn scored on a forced play 11 seconds later to point to the playing field. After Krejci and Fleury exchanged passes, it’s the sixth game of the last 11 playoffs to pass overtime. An internal video screen in the arena showed the message “Deja Vu?” minutes in OT.
But this game is far from the same as Columbus-Tampa Bay, especially since the Hurricanes and Bruins were able to play at night and had to regroup in the morning.
“It’s strange, ” said Marchand, “but he goes hand in hand with all this.
NOTE: Mrazek stopped 36 of the 40 shots he faced. Array.. Rask made 25 saves and coach Bruce Cassidy said his starter could play back in Game 2 despite consecutive matchups. Arrangement.. Carolina D Dougie Hamilton played for the first time since fracturing her left leg in January.
Following
The game will take place on Thursday night.
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