BOSTON (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored with 6:19 left to interrupt a third-period tie, and the Boston Bruins killed a five-minute penalty with out permitting a shot on objective on Monday night time to beat the Washington Capitals 4-1.
It was 1-1 when Charlie Coyle made a protracted clearing go to Lindholm and he slid it over to Brad Marchand on the blue line to start out a two-on-one. Marchand handed it again, Lindholm faked goalie Charlie Lindgren to the ice after which backhanded it into the web to make it 2-1.
Coyle made it 3-1 two minutes later, and Marchand added an empty-netter. Justin Brazeau additionally scored and Jeremy Swayman made 10 saves for the Bruins, who received for the fourth time in 5 video games and improved to 11-4-1 since Joe Sacco changed Jim Montgomery on the bench.
Jakub Vrana scored and Lindgren stopped 18 photographs for the Capitals, who got here into the day main the Jap Convention, and have misplaced three of their final six video games.
Takeaways
Capitals: Are 10-6 since Alexander Ovechkin broke his leg on Nov. 18.
Bruins: Ahead and main scorer David Pastrnak appeared to tweak one thing within the second interval. He returned to the ice for a short while however then went to the locker room and was dominated out with an unspecified upper-body damage.
Key second
Ten seconds into the third interval, Bruins ahead Oliver Wahlstrom was despatched off with a recreation misconduct and five-minute main when he pushed Capitals defenseman Martin Fehervary head-first into the boards. Washington didn’t get a shot on objective in the course of the energy play.
Key stat
The Capitals had a season-low 11 photographs on objective.
Up Subsequent
The Capitals go to Toronto and Detroit on Saturday and Sunday earlier than returning dwelling to host the Bruins on New Yr’s Eve.
The Bruins are in Columbus on Friday for the primary leg of a home-and-home earlier than heading to Washington.
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