Torey Krug leads Blues previous Bruins at Backyard

Washington, a 9-2 winner over Philadelphia, is 3 factors behind Boston, an overtaking that would ship the Bruins right into a first-round matchup with first-place Florida. The Panthers on Tuesday turned the fifth staff because the 2005 lockout to succeed in the 300-goal mark for a season.

If the Bruins defend in that would-be sequence like they did Tuesday, it might be a sweep.

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“We’re again to November, the place we play half a hockey recreation,” a pissed off coach Bruce Cassidy stated afterward. “I’ve seen this earlier than. I simply haven’t seen this shortly.”

He pointed to his staff’s errors in protection and a few dangerous penalties. A type of was a second-period roughing minor by Trent Frederic, who bit on some taunting bait from Vladimir Tarasenko with the Bruins main, 2-1.

St. Louis scored the following three objectives, one by previous pal Torey Krug (1-1–2) on that ensuing energy play, and the following two by Tarasenko.

Cassidy, who performed his third-line left wing for 2 shifts within the remaining 25:43, was brief in discussing it. He termed his frustration stage with Frederic’s choice, and the aftereffect, “very excessive.”

Within the opening minute, the Bruins uncared for to cowl for Brandon Carlo, who was pinching to the crimson line. David Perron completed a two on one with Ryan O’Reilly.

Carlo’s night time didn’t get a lot better after that minus on the scoresheet. He skated 5 extra shifts earlier than departing, his night time completed after 4:48.

“He wasn’t feeling good,” Cassidy stated, including that it was injury-related moderately than sickness.

Carlo might have been initially harm by Capitals heart Lars Eller late within the second interval of Sunday’s loss in Washington. After an Eller shove, Carlo’s face hit the glass, and Eller adopted with an elbow to the aspect of the top.

Carlo turned sidelined together with Matt Grzelcyk, who appeared to injure his shoulder early in opposition to the Capitals and missed Tuesday’s recreation.

Including insult to all this was Krug, who had fairly an evening in his return to the Backyard.

The previous Bruins defenseman, who turned 31 on Tuesday, was cheered early and booed thereafter in his first recreation right here since signing a big-ticket cope with the Blues.

Torey Krug is all smiles following his second-period goal against his old team Tuesday night at TD Garden.
Torey Krug is all smiles following his second-period purpose in opposition to his previous staff Tuesday night time at TD Backyard.Jim Davis/Globe Workers

Krug had a hand in St. Louis’s first purpose, sending the outlet move that teammate Brandon Saad tipped previous Carlo. Krug scored a first-period purpose that was known as again on an offside problem. After the Frederic penalty, Krug tied the sport at 2 at 15:10 of the second by strolling in from the purpose, dangling round Patrice Bergeron, and snapping one previous Jeremy Swayman (26 saves).

The Blues (43-20-10), winners of six straight, are 8-0-1 of their final 9.

After Perron’s strike within the opening seconds, the Bruins tied it. Fifteen seconds later, Bergeron floated into the excessive slot and one-timed a snap shot by way of site visitors. That purpose, off a feed from Brad Marchand, gave the captain his ninth consecutive 20-goal season, and the thirteenth of his 18-year profession.

Rookie Marc McLaughlin, benefiting from his time filling in for David Pastrnak on the second line, made it 2-1 with 3:01 left within the first. Taking part in in his fifth NHL recreation, the Billerica native has two objectives in two profession dwelling video games.

Discover your approach to the slot, as he did earlier than snapping Erik Haula’s centering feed previous Ville Husso, and good issues occur.

“We had a great begin,” stated McLaughlin, one among two Bruins (Swayman) to talk to reporters afterward. “Began to get away from our recreation a little bit bit. They’re a great staff, so you may’t have these lulls. There’s a successful tradition right here, so we hate to lose. On to the following one.”

Owing partly to a flatlining energy play (0 for two; now 0 for 18 in 4 video games with out Pastrnak), the Bruins couldn’t lengthen the lead.

“We’re egocentric,” Cassidy stated. “Guys are holding the puck too lengthy, eager to make the play, as a substitute of letting the puck do the work.”

The fourth line, Nick Foligno-Tomas Nosek-Curtis Lazar, got here to work. They landed six photographs and 7 hits, and almost had a purpose (Nosek, dry in 41 video games since Jan. 2, whiffed on a doorstep likelihood). Halfway by way of the second, they spent greater than a minute within the Blues’ zone, earlier than Nosek drew a cross-check.

Alas, no power-play payoff. The perfect man-advantage bid the Bruins had was a success publish from Marchand within the first interval.

St. Louis' Robert Bortuzzo delivers a high hit on Josh Brown in second-period action Tuesday night at TD Garden.
St. Louis’ Robert Bortuzzo delivers a excessive hit on Josh Brown in second-period motion Tuesday night time at TD Backyard.Jim Davis/Globe Workers

Cassidy was left bemoaning poor choices, mismanagement of the puck, and misplaced checks. And this wasn’t a one-off, in his view.

“It’s a development … simply actually not very clever hockey,” he stated. “I believe our effort, we’re making an attempt. Guys are working onerous. We’ve simply acquired to be smarter.”


Matt Porter could be reached at matthew.porter@globe.com. Comply with him on Twitter: @mattyports and on Instagram @mattyports.

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