|
The Bruins lead the best-of-seven series two
games to one. Game 4 is scheduled for Saturday night in
Uniondale.
The Islanders were outshot 39-24 in regulation but opened the
overtime with momentum following Mathew Barzal's goal with 5:26
left. New York had five of the first six shots before Marchand,
leaping over the boards in a shift change, took a pass from Long
Island native Charlie McAvoy and fired an angled shot that
sailed past defenseman Ryan Pulock and over the far shoulder of
Semyon Varlamov.
Craig Smith scored in the first for the Bruins. Goalie Tuukaa
Rask made 28 saves.
Varlamov recorded 39 saves.
The Islanders outshot the Bruins 7-5 in the first, but Smith,
who missed Game 2 with a lower-body injury, put Boston ahead a
little less than six minutes after faceoff.
Barzal and the Bruins' Taylor Hall battled each other for the
puck as they skated into the Boston zone. Hall finally won the
duel and handed the puck off to Matt Grzelyck, who raced up the
neutral zone before dishing back to Hall, who was stationed at
the right faceoff circle. Hall passed to Smith, whose shot from
the slot sailed beyond the outstretched stick of Jordan Eberle
and over Varlamov's glove at the 5:52 mark.
Both teams had plenty of chances during a scoreless second,
during which the Bruins held a 13-8 shot advantage. The
Islanders had four shots during a power play created when David
Pastrnak was whistled for slashing, but Rask stopped Anthony
Beauvillier from point-blank range with 10:15 left.
Varlamov turned away back-to-back shots in the crease by David
Krejci and Smith with a little more than five minutes left.
Those near-misses began a period-ending sequence in which the
Bruins had eight of the final nine shots, including five
unanswered in the final 2:58.
The Bruins continued peppering Varlamov in the third. Smith was
stymied at the doorstep a little more than a minute into the
period and Chris Wagner couldn't finish a wrap-around eight
minutes in for Boston, which outshot the Islanders 15-4 to open
the third before collecting four more shots after Josh Bailey
was whistled for tripping at the 11:04 mark.
Barzal finally tied it for the Islanders with 5:26 left when his
second attempt of a wraparound trickled between Rask's legs. New
York almost took the lead with 3:15 left, when Rask cradled a
point-blank breakaway by Beauvillier off a Bruins turnover.
The Islanders went on a power play with 2:15 left after Sean
Kuraly was called for cross-checking, but they generated just
one shot.
--Field Level Media
[© 2021 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2021 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content. |
|
