Recap: Morgan Geekie ties the Red Wings, B’s win in a shootout!

JUST GIVE THE ROCKET RICHARD TO HIM NOW ALREADY

First Period

There was a ruckus!

There was also a lot of penalty killing…But no scoring. Ultimately, that would have ‘till the middle frame.

Second Period

It’s a day ending in Y, and thus the B’s, deep in the Red Wings’ zone, managed to get the puck around the boards off to Elias Lindholm, and Morgan Geekie clocked in with a smart call to immediately sit out front on account of absolutely nobody within a mile of the net-front aside from Detroit’s netminder, allowing him to tip the puck home for a 1-0 Bruins lead!

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And we head to the 3rd!

Third Period

The Wings, perhaps noticing they were down to a Bruins team down a David Pastrnak and Charlie McAvoy, decided that they were not going to take it lying down, and proceeded to lay siege on the Bruins defensive zone, finally cracking through the defensive effort on a failed clear that Emmett Finnie was able to send out to Dylan Larkin, who sent a shot out front to a swooping in Lucas Raymond, who tied the game on a deflection that you’d have to actively have psychic powers to stop. 1-1 Everybody.

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Then, as time winded down, Ben Chiarot took a high sticking penalty, and that gave the B’s extremely scary power play, something that is not a joke to say in 2025-26, and Morgan Geekie got to take a nice, careful slapshot in a power play that felt like it was moving at half speed, which utterly flummoxed the Red Wings. 2-1 Bruins!

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Unfortunately, the Wings pulled their goalie, and with only a couple of minutes left they tied it as an excellent Larkin pass got Patrick Kane and Michael Rasmussen on a 2-on-nobody, and Rasmussen parked his 6’6 keister in front of Swayman to redirect the puck in behind Swayman. 2-2 Everybody.

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Guess we’re headed to Overtime.

Overtime

There were 4 shots to 1 in favor of the Wings. Swayman stopped them all.

Shootout

SKILLS COMP GO, CASEY SEND US HOME

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Bruins win 3-2!

Game Notes

• Your TOI Leader was Nikita Zadorov, who logged 26:57

• This was rapidly on it’s way toward being a very sluggish game until the third, after which it felt like the Bruins were in real danger of taking the positives that Morgan Geekie had given them and frittering it away. Mercifully, cooler heads prevailed and they came out on top in a gutsy performance.

• So hey! Morgan Geekie’s right back in the hunt for the league lead in goals!

  • Seriously, one of the big questions about this one player is and to a large part still remains “Who is this player away from David Pastrnak?”, and given that he now leads the team in goalscoring, that is not an insignificant question to ask, especially if he’s gonna be away for a little bit. Tonight, he answered that he can in fact still do this away from #88, and it’s only made his legend even more impressive. Morgan, I cannot overstate this; we cannot do this without you.

• The PK was busy tonight; Boston gave up 5 chances on the man-advantage to Detroit, including one in overtime oh my GOD Elias do not do that again, and they stopped them all. Each of the Penalty Killers deserve a star on their own for how they handled this and I wish every last one of them a very cold ice bath and a stiff drink.

  • That said, LET US TRY TO CLEAN UP THE WILD STICKS AND PANIC HOLDS PLEASE. They got away with it against Detroit tonight, but you got New Jersey coming up at the end of next week. They’re not gonna struggle nearly as much with moving the puck around. Let’s not tempt fate if we can.

• I think the Bruins owe Jeremy Swayman a cake for f#!king up his SV% so bad in that Ottawa game that he’s merely top 5 in the league instead of actively leading the NHL in SV%. Oh well, that just means he gets to earn it the old fashioned way. He came out of this one with a .923 SV% on 26 shots, Plus all the ones he made in the shootout, which I feel like should count? Either way, excellent night for him.

• Mason…you are lucky Jeremy Swayman is a Boston Bruin. But you did end up not causing too big of a problem. You did…okay.

The B’s will get a chance to play the Red Wings again on Tuesday, though this time in their home barn. That game is at 7pm EST.

We’ll see you there!