Wednesday night’s game started out with the perfect story line: a battle of the best first lines in the National Hockey League. Both the Bruins and Avalanche have the same makeup. Each team has one dominant line followed by lackluster depth.
With 9:44 left in the first period, Gabriel Landeskog put the Avs on the board first after Zdeno Chara turned the puck over to Mikko Rantanen behind the Bruins’ net. A short time later, the Bruins would go to the powerplay thanks to Mark Barberio. After the first unit failed to score, the second unit came on for the Bruins, except David Pastrnak stayed on the ice.