Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, March 23, 2017 · TD Garden
TVAS · SUN · NESN
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 6-3 on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at TD Garden. The Bruins outshot the Lightning 31-29.
Nikita Kucherov scored a hat trick. David Pastrnak, Brayden Point, Zdeno Chara, Riley Nash, Anton Stralman and Jonathan Drouin also scored.
Peter Budaj made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Tuukka Rask stopped 23 of 28.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
David Pastrnak (32)Patrice Bergeron (32), Ryan Spooner (27)0–101:33 BOS · PPG
Brayden Point (13)Ondrej Palat (25), Jake Dotchin (7)1–102:17 TBL
Zdeno Chara (8)Riley Nash (8), Dominic Moore (11)1–207:50 BOS · SHG
Nikita Kucherov (35)Jonathan Drouin (29), Victor Hedman (46)2–208:14 TBL · PPG
Riley Nash (5)Dominic Moore (12), Kevan Miller (9)2–313:18 BOS
Anton Stralman (3)Ondrej Palat (26), Brayden Point (18)3–314:53 TBL
3rd period
Jonathan Drouin (18)Alex Killorn (15), Vladislav Namestnikov (16)4–304:12 TBL- Nikita Kucherov (36)Victor Hedman (47), Jonathan Drouin (30)5–310:11 TBL · PPG
- Nikita Kucherov (37)Ondrej Palat (27)6–318:03 TBL · EN
Team stats
TBLBOS
29Shots on goal31
41%Faceoff %59%
2/5Power play1/4
12Penalty minutes14
25Hits26
13Blocked shots12
10Giveaways16
14Takeaways14
Penalties
- 1st 01:55
Brad Marchand · holding2 min - 1st 01:55
Anton Stralman · tripping2 min - 1st 08:08Bench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 1st 11:18Gabriel Dumont · hooking2 min
- 2nd 01:21Gabriel Dumont · tripping2 min
- 2nd 07:25Brandon Carlo · tripping2 min
- 2nd 19:09Ondrej Palat · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 2nd 19:09Patrice Bergeron · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3rd 00:53Nikita Kucherov · holding the stick2 min
- 3rd 09:41David Pastrnak · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 10:37David Backes · interference2 min
- 3rd 12:19Nikita Kucherov · hooking2 min
- 3rd 18:48Frank Vatrano · tripping2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 21:06 |
| 27Jonathan DrouinL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 18:56 |
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 6 | 19:10 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 21:14 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 24:15 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:56 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:08 |
| 6Anton StralmanD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 21:54 |
| 59Jake DotchinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 17:26 |
| 23JT BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:36 |
| 61Gabriel DumontC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:31 |
| 65Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 12:22 |
| 73Adam ErneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 09:45 |
| 92Joel VerminR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 09:17 |
| 5Jason GarrisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:08 |
| 28Luke WitkowskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:11 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:21 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:32 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | W | 31 | 28 | 3 | .903 | 60:00 |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |
Boston Bruins
| 20Riley NashC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 11:19 |
| 28Dominic MooreC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 11:12 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 3 | 20:18 |
| 51Ryan SpoonerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 11:58 |
| 88David PastrnakR | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 21:37 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 22:10 |
| 86Kevan MillerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:15 |
| 19Drew StaffordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 14:06 |
| 39Matt BeleskeyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 07:05 |
| 42David BackesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 20:11 |
| 55Noel AcciariC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:32 |
| 63Brad MarchandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 5 | 22:31 |
| 72Frank VatranoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:07 |
| 6Colin MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:13 |
| 25Brandon CarloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 16:34 |
| 47Torey KrugD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 24:04 |
| 54Adam McQuaidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:59 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Anton KhudobinG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 40Tuukka RaskG | L | 28 | 23 | 5 | .821 | 58:58 |