In Boston Sunday, the Bruins clamped down on the Los Angeles Kings’ offense and Tuukka Rask made 18 saves in a 1-0 shutout win.
“I think we kept them to the outside for the most part,” Rask said. “There was one tip late in the third period that hit someone’s shin pad and it ricocheted to my glove and that’s the toughest save. But I saw all the shots.”
The Bruins improved to 17-13-3 on the season and won for only the second time in their seven games.
Tuukka Rask – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“That’s a pretty big, heavy team they have there,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “And their offense usually comes from wearing you down and winning battles and crashing the front of the net. They have some [defensemen] that can shoot the puck really well. Their game plan is very efficient for their team.
“In our end of it, we knew again they’ve got good size and it wouldn’t be easy to get to the front of the net that much. But our guys did a good job. I know we only had that one goal but we had some opportunities around the net and it was that type of game that you needed to beat those guys. I thought we did a great job defensively, which was probably the key there this afternoon to this win.”
Jimmy Hayes scored the only goal of the game on a nice tip in off a shot from the left circle by Colin Miller.
Peter Budaj made 29 saves in the Kings loss.
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On a long nine-game roadie, the Kings have now played four of those games.
“We just played our fourth game in six-and-a-half days,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. “We played our [butts] off again today. Guys who don’t [play hard] get [scratched], guys who do [have] to play again today and they left it all out there.”
The Kings fell to 16-13-2 on the season.
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