In Boston, the Philadelphia Flyers got within 2-1 on Thursday night in the third period, until David Krejci hit for a double, including a power play goal, in a 4-1 win for the Bruins.
Linus Ullmark made 22 saves in the Boston win.
“It’s hard to win one game, but win this many games — 17 games, 15 wins — that’s crazy,” Krejci said. “No one expected that, but we’re staying even-keeled here. We were focusing on the task at hand, and we’ve been doing a pretty good job at it.”
The Bruins improved to 15-2-3-.-0.
“I think our guys were too excited to play,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “Our puck movement was really good, but we were skating out of position offensively and especially defensively. We were skating out of the middle of the ice a lot, which is uncommon for us, which gave Philadelphia — and they took advantage of it, credit to them — but they had some really good looks.”
Boston took a 1-0 lead in the middle frame off a goal from Tomas Nosek ound.
Jake DeBrusk pushed the lead to 2-0 in the third period.
Owen Tippett got the Flyers within one, at 2-1 in the third.
The Flyers dropped to 7-7-3.
“We’re still trying to build an identity. We’re not there yet,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said. “I see signs of it as far as how hard you have to play, the checking, the little things you need to do. But if we had an identity and we’re rock-solid, we wouldn’t be losing games.”
Tippett scored off the power play.
“When things aren’t clicking, it gets frustrating,” Tippett said. “You want to be able to build momentum for the team, whether it’s scoring or whether it’s just creating chances and just turning the momentum of the game. I think when things don’t go, you just have to turn back to being simple, and I think it was just a mindset to kind of put one on net.”
“We don’t create enough offense to give things away for free,” Tortorella said. “I mean, ‘Provy’ is trying to play very well for us. It’s just a bad play.”
Krejci hit for his first goal just 16 seconds after the Tippett strike for a 3-1 lead.
His power play goal made it 4-1.
“We don’t create enough offense to give things away for free,” Tortorella said. “I mean, ‘Provy’ is trying to play very well for us. It’s just a bad play.”
Carter Hart made 28 saves in the Flyers loss.
“It’s getting frustrating,” Flyers forward Scott Laughton said. “I mean, you lose five in a row, it’s tough. [Boston’s] a good team over there. … I thought we could have been better, but what are you going to do? You wake up the next morning and practice, and get better.”
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