The first home loss of the Bruins’ young season was fortunately masked by the success of the Red Sox. At least the B’s aren’t losing in the Cup Finals right now, amirite?
We’ll get over it. It’s one game.
First Period
Exchanges - shots, physicality - were even through the firs few minutes, until David Pastrnak slashed Xavier Ouellet behind the Montreal net to earn the game’s first penalty. Boston would beat it, leaving just over 13 minutes in the first.
Just before the halfway point, Brendan Gallagher snuck a shot from the left dot to put Montreal up 1-0.