The Boston Bruins eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes in five games to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to play the Tampa Bay Lightning. Boston is technically the underdog in the series because they lost all three round robin games which gave them the fourth seed while Tampa Bay is the #2 seed.
The Boston Bruins have eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes in five games to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. There were a lot of story lines during the duration of the first round but today we’ll look at who was Boston’s Most Valuable Player. Before the series started, you probably would’ve expected …
David Pastrnak was deemed “unfit to play” for the second, third, and fourth games of the series vs the Carolina Hurricanes but he was back for Game 5 and it seemed like he provided a jolt to the offense in terms of creating more scoring opportunities.
The Boston Bruins were certainly missing G Tuukka Rask early on in Game 4, who opted out less than two hours prior to Game 3 over the weekend. Going into the third period the B’s were trailing the Carolina Hurricanes 2-0 and it seemed like the series would be tied going into Game 5.
Boston Bruins fans woke up to some very bad news on Saturday morning, as goaltender Tuukka Rask decided to opt-out of the 2020 NHL playoffs hours before the team would take the ice in Game 3 of their first-round match up with the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Boston Bruins lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 2 after David Pastrnak was unfit to play. The series is tied at one but that wasn’t the story after the game. The story was Tuukka Rask‘s bizarre comments that he made in his postgame press conference. Let’s start with the least puzzling comments first. …
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The Boston Bruins had a 1-0 series lead going into Game 2 and it seemed like everything seemed to be fine but then all of a sudden David Pastrnak was deemed “unfit to play” by the Boston Bruins just before game time and therefore, he would be watching the game from the stands. It looks like he may have strained something in his side after celebrating Patrice Bergeron’s game-winning 2OT goal in Game 1.
The Boston Bruins could not capitalize on a few opportunities and looked a little sluggish in the early parts of Game 1 in the first round vs the Carolina Hurricanes, but they ended it quickly once the second overtime began. As I detailed before the series got underway, we knew that the “Profession Line” was …
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The Boston Bruins went 0-3 in the Round Robin games inside the NHL bubble but starting on Tuesday night, the games actually count. Brad Marchand recently said that Boston used the Round Robin games as a “preseason games”.
