Bruins erase early deficit to take Game 1 against Blues

Ailish Forfar
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Bruins erase early deficit to take Game 1 against Blues

The Boston Bruins overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. This is Boston’s 8th straight win of the 2019 Playoffs, which is pretty incredible.

Here’s a play-by-play recap of how it all happened.

Third Period

Final Buzzer: Bruins 4 - Blues 2

BRUINS GOAL, 4-2

St. Louis pulls Binnington with 2:13 left in the third, and of course it’s Brad Marchand who slides the puck into an empty net. Celly hard Boston, you earned Game 1.

Not ideal for the Blues:

Hit of the year by a helmet-less, 4-foot-2, Torey Krug:

BRUINS GOAL, 3-2

Three unanswered goals for Boston, and another huge fourth line effort. This time it’s Sean Kuraly who goes skate to stick and puts it past Binnington.

Things aren’t going well for the Blues.

Second Intermission

Lil Nas X is signing foreheads.

“Hey man wait, is that a Sharpie?”

“Can't nobody tell me nothin”

Second Period

Buzzer: Tie game, 2-2

Well that was an incredibly different period from the Bruins. What first looked like an rusty old group of lads who enjoyed their eleven days off a little too much, quickly turned into the dangerous Boston team we know all too well. The Blues did not have a shot on goal in the last 8:16 of the second period. Yikes.

Things are getting chippy!

BRUINS GOAL, 2-2

Well, I warned the Blues about Boston’s power play. Did they listen? No. After another undisciplined play by the Blues, Boston finally capitalized with its dynamite power play. Charlie McAvoy split the defence and tied the game up at 2-2.

Binnington looked visibly frustrated after that one.

Marcus Johansson is my early candidate for unsung hero of the game. He’s been absolutely electric every single shift. You heard it here first: something good is coming tonight from that kid.

BRUINS GOAL, 2-1

Before I even hit publish on the Blues goal update, the Bruins’ fourth line gets on the board and sets TD Garden on fire. Kuraly sets up Clifton who slices it upstairs on Binnington. They say two goal leads are the hardest to keep!

BLUES GOAL, 2-0

Tarasenko rips one past Rask so quick into the second period fans were still in line for cold brews. An assist goes to Pastrnak who dropped the puck behind his own net to Schenn, oops!

First Intermission

Did you now the last time the Blues and the Bruins faced off in the Stanley Cup final, back in 1970, Bobby Orr scored that famous overtime flying goal? We’ve now seen it replayed 120,000 times!

First Period

Buzzer: Blues lead 1-0 after twenty minutes. Shots are 8-8 with Boston leading 6-4 in scoring chance attempts. Both teams had solid chances, but Boston looks a bit rusty and Binnington looks dynamite. We knew that would happen.

St. Louis has taken two offensive zone penalties so far this period, after I specifically warned them to stay away from the box. Playing with fire.

So, Marcus Johansson came to play. He pings one off the crossbar after going through basically the entire St. Louis team.

BLUES GOAL, 1-0

Blues strike first on a contained pressure shift and a perfectly placed Schenn shot from the slot. Bruins d-zone looked a bit loose on this one.

DeBrusk’s foot speed was far too fast for the Blues’ Bortuzzo, but Binnington gets lucky with the narrow miss.

Bruins *almost* score 34 seconds in. Pretty rude after I predicted they’d have a slow start because they haven’t played a hockey game in what feels like a decade.

Pre Game

TD Garden is full of glowing wristbands just like the Taylor Swift concert I went to when I was 16 and it’s glorious.

Patrick Maroon *probably* said something really kind and encouraging to Tuukka Rask during warmups. Sportsmanship!

Guest of honour: Lil Nas X

You might know him from his hit —and his only hit — ‘Old Town Road.’

Yeehaw, let’s get this party started!

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