Boston is destroyed in Arizona by a strange ending.
Here are the Talking Points for the Boston Bruins’ 4-3 loss to the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night in front of an estimated 4,600 spectators at Mullett Arena.
GOLD STAR:
Karel Vejmelka, an Arizona Coyotes netminder, made the difference in a game in which the Boston Bruins outshot them 46– 16. Vejmelka did not give up while she waited for Arizona to take advantage of their opportunities at the other end as the Bruins continued to pound on the Arizona goalie, including a second period sequence in which Jake DeBrusk missed the net with another breakaway just seconds later.
Given the porous defense that is typically used in front of him, Vejmelka’s 43-save performance will only add to his strong season in the desert. His.913 save percentage on the season is something else.
BLACK EYE:
It was intriguing to watch Jim Montgomery pick Jeremy Swayman to start the game against the Coyotes on Friday night, especially with Linus Ullmark in the lead after giving a strong performance versus the Avalanche. As it turns out, Vejmelka outplayed Swayman, who gave up four goals on 16 shots.
The worst scene involved Swayman, who failed to play the puck during a potential icing that was waved off as soon as it crossed the painted crease and became the Coyotes’ final second game winner in what everyone assumed would be overtime. Swayman watched as Derek Forbort coughed the puck up to Matias Maccelli and fed it to Lawson Crouse for the game’s winner after letting it go in the hopes that it would be icing. The Boston Bruins, who did not really play well enough to win, had a strange ending, but it was also fitting.
Turning Point:
Many people will recall that third period’s final, somewhat contentious play, in which Jeremy Swayman appeared unsure of whether or not it would be icing as the puck crossed the edge of the painted area in the crease. The puck passing through the crease should not affect the final call, as Swayman was doing in accordance with the actual icing rule. Derek Forbort was put in a very difficult situation where Swayman might have been able to throw if it had not been immediately waved off the puck into the corner and assisted the Bruins, who were playing 3 on 3 overtime, in killing off the remaining 15 or so seconds. Forbort was caught off guard in the final seconds, when Arizona made a play for the game’s winner, rather than being prepared for worst-case scenario. The Boston Bruins’ game came to an odd end, but what do you anticipate when two NHL teams compete in a 5, 000-person college arena?
A game-high nine shots:
on net and 13 shot attempts overall were made by David Pastrnak in a fairly wide-open game against Arizona, where the B’s had numerous chances to score, Grade-A scoring chances, and other opportunities. The Boston Bruins had plenty of chances that did not go in the net that night, but Pastranak had a breakaway chance that he wouldn’tting be able to finish off among his other outstanding scoring opportunities.
By THE NUMBERS:
After Friday night, the Boston Bruins’ long and illustrious winning streak over the Coyotes, which dates back to their 2010 match in Prague, is officially over.
Bruins in Arizona lose a last-minute goal.
The Bruins lost to the Arizona Coyotes 4-3 on Friday night at Mullett Arena after Nick Foligno tied the score late in the third period. Lawson Crouse scored the game’s winner with just 14 seconds left in a contentious play that the Black& Gold thought should have been called off for icing.
The linesman waved off an icing call as the puck trickled toward the Bruins’ net and clanked off the cage’s side. Matias Maccelli of Arizona located Crouse to Jeremy Swayman’s right, where the Coyotes winger hit a one-timer to take the lead.
It ought to have been icing, in our opinion. It ought to be irrelevant. When asked if the icing was waved off because the puck crossed through the blue paint, coach Jim Montgomery replied, “The only thing that should matter is whether our D-man could touch it before it crosses the goal line.”
Foligno expressed his “surprise” that no icing was called on the play in his power-play tally, which was tied at 3 with 5:29 remaining.
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