Bruins high NHL season factors mark, beating Capitals 5-2

BOSTON — Brad Marchand and Tyler Bertuzzi had energy play objectives and the Boston Bruins broke the NHL factors document with a 5-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday evening of their regular-season house finale.

Under chants of “We want the Cup!” the Bruins’ gained their seventh straight to push their factors complete to 133, another than the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens. Those Canadiens performed in an period with out extra time and shootouts.

The Bruins broke the mark a sport after setting the NHL victory’ document with 63 on Sunday at Philadelphia, breaking a tie with the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings and 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning.

Tomas Nosek, Garnet Hathaway and Jake DeBrusk additionally scored for Boston on Tuesday evening in win No. 64.

An evening after reaching 60 objectives in season for the primary time, David Pastrnak posted his fiftieth and 51st assists. Linus Ullmark completed with 19 saves, with left the sport with simply over 9 minutes left with an undisclosed challenge. Marchand and Patrice Bergeron added assists.

When the playoffs start the Bruins may have home-ice benefit all through in pursuit of the franchise’s first Stanley Cup championship since 2011.

Nick Jensen and Tom Wilson scored for the Capitals. Charlie Lindgren had 33 saves, together with a one-handed, gloveless save on Pastrnak early within the third interval.

Wilson narrowed what had been a two-goal deficit to 3-2 within the third earlier than Nosek discovered Hathaway chopping towards the web for his thirteenth purpose.

The Bruins received their first energy play of the sport with 12:24 left within the second after Matt Irwin was referred to as for a cross-check on Taylor Hall.

Less than a minute later Boston turned it right into a 1-0 lead when David Pastrnak gathered a move from Patrice Bergeron, instantly drew some defenders in the midst of the ice and flipped it to backside of the best faceoff circle to Marchand, who completed off his twenty first purpose of the season. It was his first purpose in 17 video games after having final scored in a loss to Edmonton on March 9.

Boston was on the facility play once more after Tom Wilson was referred to as for roughing Charlie McAvoy with just below seven minutes to play within the interval.

The Bruins made it 2-0 when Bertuzzi discovered himself in good place to rebound a shot by Pastrnak and push by means of his eighth purpose of the season.

Jensen trimmed the margin to a purpose with 4:53 left within the interval, when his wrist shot appeared to clip McAvoy and trickle by Ullmark for Jensen’s fifth purpose of the 12 months of the 12 months.

NOTES: It was simply Boston’s second time with two energy play objectives in a sport this season. It additionally had two in a 7-3 win over Florida on Dec. 19. … Washington’s Jensen has now scored in a career-high 5 video games. … Henrik Borgstrom was recalled from the AHL Hershey Bears Tuesday and have become the primary Finnish participant to decorate for the Capitals in 14 years. It final occurred in Oskar Osala’s final sport with the group on March 27, 2009.

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