Bruins lose David Pastrnak, then game in OT to Rangers, 2-1
Vincent Trocheck scored at 2:03 in overtime to lift the New York Rangers to a 2-1 victory at the Garden on Saturday, ending a fun night with a thud for B’s fans.
The B’s took a 1-0 lead into the third but Trocheck tied it up with a power play goal
Still, it wasn’t the worst point in the world for the B’s. They were already down Charlie McAvoy and Pavel Zacha and then lost David Pastrnak late in the second period to a game misconduct. They could miss Pastrnak for some time due to his hit on Ryan Lindgren.
They hung on for a point but could earn no more.
After a scoreless first period, the B’s took the first lead at 2:07 of the second on Trent Frederic’s seventh goal of the year. Matt Grzelcyk made a nice breakout pass to Matt Poitras and he carried it through the neutral zone. He dished it to James van Riemsdyk on the right wing while Frederic headed for the net. Van Riemsdyk flipped a backhander toward the net that went off Frederic’s skate and into goalie Igor Shesterkin. It bounced back onto Frederic’s blade and he jammed it home from the mniddle of the crease.
The Rangers challenged for goalie interference but the goal was upheld. That gave the B’s a power play, but they could do nothing with it.
The B’s appeared suffer another loss to injury when, on a 4-on-4, Poitras was checked into the boards by Erik Gustafsson with his left shoulder taking the brunt of the hit. He writhed on the ice in some obvious pain before getting up and heading straight to the room. But Poitras would return before the period was out.
With Poitras still in the room, Frederic decided to take care of that business and a little more from the past. He had been jawing earlier in the game Jacob Trouba, who in the first meeting had gotten away with a two-hander to Frederic’s head and got away with a mere fine.
The fight didn’t last long. Frederic landed the first punch, Trouba swung back and then his momentum took him to the ice.
The temperature was up from there, and it didn’t work in the B’s favor. With 1:50 left in the period, David Pastrnak hit defenseman Ryan Lindgren from behind and Lindgren’s head went into the glass, cutting the defenseman.
Pastrnak was tagged with a five-minute major and a game misconduct. He may als get a call from the Department of Player Safety.
The major was mitigated when when Artemi Panarin was given a two-minute minor in the fracas, but the B’s were faced with three full minutes of kill time early in the third to league’s second ranked power-play unit. With the help of Jeremy Swayman, of course, the B’s did indeed kill it off.
But the Rangers kept coming and when the B’s best penalty killer Brandon Carlo took an interference penalty, New York tied it up at 10:50. Mika Zibanejad fed Vincent Trocheck in the slot and Trocheck beat Swayman from about 15 feet out.