Morgan Geekie was quite sure if the meeting was intentional or happenstance, but he appreciated it nonetheless.

Geekie, still the Bruins leading goalscorer with 26 tallies, had been without goal in 12 games when team president Cam Neely, who knows a thing or two about scoring goals, came up to him inside the B’s dressing room at the Garden. Geekie had been trying everything he could to get his goalscoring mojo back, leaning into a bit of superstition to do the trick.

“We were by the stick rack and he was just quizzing me about why I changed everything, the color of my tape and whatever,” said Geekie after Saturday’s morning skate. “He just told me to take it easy and it will come eventually. It was all lighthearted, but he cares a lot and he wants me to produce and wants what’s best for the team, so however I can do that is what he’s looking for.”

Not many people considered Geekie a goalscorer, not even the player himself, for the first few years of his career. But then he scored 50 goals in the calendar year of 2025 and signed a six-year, $33 million contract in the midst of that run. The perception of who he is as a player changed dramatically in a relatively short period of time.

Geekie is not from the exact same mold as Neely, who was prototypical power forward. But they share a main asset – goalscoring.

“I think that was maybe an identity I took on the last year or so, so to have someone of his stature and what he’s accomplished here kind of relate to me a little, I was able to take a deep breath and rest,” said Geekie. “It means a lot. It’s definitely important for me as a player to just be able to (realize) everyone goes through it, no matter how good you are. It’s just how the game works. He did say just ‘when chances stop coming, that’s when you need to be worried.’ But they haven’t yet so we’ll just try to keep creating and one will go in.”

Geekie finally stopped in the skid on Tuesday in Dallas, though it wasn’t exactly an opportunity to celebrate. The goal came on a deflection when the B’s were down 6-0 late in the third period.

He said he didn’t necessarily feel a weight come off his shoulders.

“I thought it would matter more,” said Geekie. “It sucks when you’re in it but we’ve been winning the whole time, so I don’t know. Obviously you want to have personal success but it makes it pretty easy to come to the rink when you win eight, nine games. Obviously I want to produce, I want to help the team win but I’m OK to take a back seat and watch other guys do it, for sure. Guys are stepping up and I think that’s kudos to the depth we have in here.”

While he wasn’t great in every game he played during the drought, he did hit a remarkable number of posts, something he find some measure of solace.

“It’s just one of those things where, if those pucks go in, we don’t really talk about anything. I know it’s kind of lucky, but I’ve said I feel like I’ve been unlucky for a long, long time,” said Geekie. “I just want to continue to get chances and when chances stop coming, that’s when we should be maybe a bit worried. But I hit two posts last game and I don’t know how many before that. I just want to keep putting pucks on net and hopefully one of them will go in.”

Geekie did not score in the B’s 4-3 win over Vegas on Thursday but he did pick up a couple of helpers.

“I’ve never been someone who shoots the puck a ton and I’m still not someone who shoots the puck a ton. I always try to look for the better play. That’s just how I was brought up,” said Geekie. “I think it’s fun to see a couple of goals we scored on the power play, to see us zip it around. To me, that’s just good hockey and that’s the result I’m always looking for. Recently I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of those. It’s fun to play set-up man every once in a while.”….

In the first two Bruins-Canadiens games, there were fights right off the opening draw. Coach Marco Sturm took a boys-will-be-boys view on it. Of course, Sturm also started players who can handle themselves in both games – Nikita Zadorov in the first game in Montreal and Tanner Jeannot in the game in Boston. He said there was no forethought on his part.

“Both times, I actually didn’t. I really didn’t (think about it). And it happened, so maybe I should,” said Sturm with a laugh. “I just want to play and I’m one of those coaches who wants to have a good start, I want to set the tone right away, maybe not just fighting but just overall having a good start. But the players chose to go that way. That’s OK, too.”…

With the winter storm bearing down on the region, the B’s made plans to fly out immediately after Saturday night’s game to New York, where they’re scheduled to take on Rangers on Monday.