The Boston Bruins created a 2-0 lead in Denver in the first period on Thursday night.
Philipp Grubauer slammed the door closed after that lead and made 39 saves to help the Colorado Avalanche improve to 3-0-0 on the season in a 4-2 win.
Andre Burakovsky struck for the third goal in a four-goal rally by the Avs to get win.
“It felt great,” Burakovsky said. “I mean, you never know when you’re going to score in this League, it’s tough to get the goals. Sometimes you are lucky. I just shot at the net and it hit the post and went in. Lucky. I don’t think [Clifton] was fully awake when I kind of jumped by him. We’ve been talking all the time about getting pucks to the net. That’s something that was in my mind and I was just lucky it hit post and went in.”
David Pastrnak and Zdeno Chara scored for the Bruins early kn the first period.
“We’re in a results-oriented business,” Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “You could argue today was our best one of the road trip. We were right there. You never like to see a two-goal lead go against you. Part of it was self-inflicted, part of it was their good offense.”
Nathan MacKinnon, and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare also scored for the AVs.
“I think our goalie saved our bacon a couple of times,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “I loved our goalie. I thought their goalie played pretty well, too.”
Gabriel Landeskog added an empty net goal to seal it late.
“Our guys didn’t feel like we were out of it,” Bednar said. “We get a timely goal at the end of the first on a power play, which gets us back within striking distance. We knew we had some self-inflicted wounds and that we could be better. We got better as the game went on.”
Boston had two goals overturned, one by goalie interference and the other by an offsides.
“I scored and had an assist tonight, but they got called back,” Jake DeBrusk said. “We should’ve won this game 4-2, but I guess neither of them were goals and that’s how they called it. They looked at it and called it out how it was. It won’t snowball for me, but I’m definitely [upset].”
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Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves in the loss.
“We’re in a results-oriented business,” Cassidy said. “You could argue today was our best one of the road trip. We were right there. You never like to see a two-goal lead go against you. Part of it was self-inflicted, part of it was their good offense.”
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