Welcome to Friday, folks!
After months of planning, the Bruins finally held their number retirement ceremony for Zdeno Chara last night, with the big man’s family raising #33 to the TD Garden rafters.
(He’s got a pretty good #33 neighbor in those rafters in green and white too, huh?)
The ceremony and accompanying festivities were quite a nostalgia trip, from master of ceremonies Andrew Ference to Tim Thomas to David Krejci and a whole bunch of people in between.
There was even a Jack Edwards appearance!
Overall, it was a great evening and a very nice ceremony put on by the team.
We should see something similar in a year or two for Patrice Bergeron.
After all of that, there was actually a hockey game to be played, and the B’s managed another win, beating Seattle 4-2.
The Bruins jumped out to a 2-0 lead before Seattle got one back, then Mark Kastelic scored a shorthanded goal in the second period (while Bergeron, appropriately, was in the NESN booth) to make it 3-1. That goal stood up as the game-winner.
Marat Khusnutdinov, Viktor Arvidsson, and David Pastrnak (ENG) scored the other Bruin goals, while Jeremy Swayman made 26 saves.
The highlights, in case you missed the game:
Andrew Peeke ended up leaving the game with a lower-body injury and didn’t return, so we’ll wait for an update on his status.
Overall, it was a pretty good game for the Bruins, though they did allow four Seattle power plays and two PPGs.
Hopefully old habits aren’t creeping back in, as it had been a nice stretch of games with limited shorthanded situations.
The Bruins finished their homestand with a perfect 5-0-0 record, and perhaps most impressively, they only allowed five goals in those five games.
Something to build on, that’s for sure.
The B’s will be off today, aside from traveling to Chicago, where they’ll face the Blackhawks tomorrow night at 8 PM.
What’s on tap for today?
