A goal, a goal, my kingdom for a power play goal.
With apologies to Shakespeare, the New York Rangers were a power play goal away from upending one of the best teams in the NHL on Friday afternoon.
Instead, they went scoreless in six chances and gave up a 2-0 lead to the Bruins in Boston and lost 3-2 in overtime.
“That 5-on-3, to me, our power play really cost us tonight,” Rangers coach David Quinn said. “You go 0-for-6 and you have a 5-on-3 and you get a four-minute and you barely get a scoring chance out of it, just really is frustrating. You know what happens when they’re feeding off their penalty kill and we get a little bit demoralized by our power play.”
David Krejci scored 1:40 into the extra session to complete the Bruins rally.
“Well obviously it felt good, right?” Krejci said. “We’ve been pretty good on home ice and in the third period you know, when we we’re going, the energy was pretty good and we felt it on the bench. But yeah, what happened, I just gave the puck to a good player, I gave it to [Pastrnak], he made a play. Pretty much I had an open net.”
Jaroslav Halak made 26 saves to help the Bruins improve to 10-0-4 at home.
“Well, it feels great. I know our team is always going to eventually find their game,” Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Listen, I’m a coach, I want them to find it sooner, and eventually we did get to our game and play our type of game. I think lately, we’ve found ways to win because we’ve got good players. We’re a good team … so as a coach, that’s what you’re always looking at a little bit, the result but also the process for us. You always want to win, but I think for us, we’re trying to build that process to get where we want to go.”
Pavel Buchnevich and Filip Chytil scored for the Rangers.
“Yeah it was a tough game, couldn’t get anything going kind of all game,” Pastrnak said. “But you know we stuck with it. Penalty kill and Jaro gave us a great chance to win. So we’re happy for the penalty kill and Jaro that we were able to finish it with two points.”
Sean Kuraly and David Pastrnak scored for the Bruins
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Henrik Lundqvist made 24 saves in the loss..
“It’s almost like they were a little asleep for 35 minutes, and after they kill off that 5-on-3 (in the second period), it’s almost like they decided to turn it up,” Lundqvist said. “In the late second, early third, there was a different speed to their game. That’s where I think they’re one of the best teams in the League, they manage to stay in the game, even though they’re not playing their best and it’s almost like a different team out there in the third.”
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