The Boston Bruins received a good sport in opposition to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night time at TD Backyard.
Morgan Geekie scored the game-winning purpose simply 2:06 into the second interval for his thirteenth tally of the season.
The 26-year-old ahead struggled at first of the season, however since interim head coach Joe Sacco put Geekie on the highest line with David Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha, he’s discovered his offensive rhythm. He scored six objectives in December and 5 thus far in January.
“I feel simply chemistry. Simply going on the market and taking part in,” Geekie informed reporters, as seen on NESN’s postgame protection. “At the least for me, loads much less considering. Simply form of going and taking part in. We’re all creatures of behavior. We love to do the identical issues on a regular basis. And also you get to be taught the place these guys are on a regular basis and the tendencies they’ve.”
Geekie scored the opening purpose in opposition to the New Jersey Devils the night time earlier than to increase his purpose streak to 2 video games, and David Pastrnak had the first helper on his purpose within the win over the Senators to increase his scoring streak to 6 video games.
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“We expect we are able to produce and assist the crew,” Geekie mentioned. “I feel that’s one thing that we’re attempting to take numerous delight in as a line and be accountable in our personal finish as nicely.”
Final season, Geekie had profession highs in objectives (17), assists (22) and factors (39) throughout 76 video games with the Bruins. Geekie has 13 objectives, 11 assists and 24 factors in 45 video games this season. It’s greater than probably he’ll at the least eclipse his purpose output this season if he retains the tempo up over the past 32 video games of the common season. His 13 tallies put him third on the crew behind Pastrnak (24) and Brad Marchand (17).
The Bruins wanted to win this sport after dropping a deflating 5-1 resolution to the Devils the night time earlier than.
“It’s big. I imply, it speaks volumes,” Geekie mentioned.”Simply how we are able to play after we play our sport and the way in which we responded, is one thing we gotta take numerous delight in. It’s a sport we are able to construct off of for certain. … Simply play nicely in our personal finish, we all know the possibilities will come, clearly. It was a good sport at the moment, however a couple of of these probabilities go in for us, and we are able to open it up. We’re going to do ourselves numerous favors happening the street.”
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The Senators outshot the Bruins 30-26, however Boston used their physicality and took the physique each probability that they had, outhitting Ottawa 27-20.
“We’ve received numerous huge our bodies on this crew,” Geekie mentioned. “A number of guys that play heavy however could make performs, and I feel that’s one thing that we generally get away from, and we overlook what the strengths of our crew are. Behind the web is one thing I feel numerous guys thrive off of, and anytime you possibly can go low to excessive, get our D-men concerned too, it creates probabilities.”
