Columbus Blue Jackets vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Monday, December 18, 2017 · TD Garden
SN · TVAS · FS-O · NESN
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 7–2 on Monday, December 18, 2017 at TD Garden. The Bruins outshot the Blue Jackets 45–18.
Goals came from Brad Marchand, David Backes, Charlie McAvoy, Josh Anderson, Danton Heinen, Torey Krug, Patrice Bergeron, Jake DeBrusk and Seth Jones.
Tuukka Rask made 16 saves on 18 shots for the win; Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 38 of 45.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Brad Marchand (14)Patrice Bergeron (14), Zdeno Chara (7)0–114:48 BOS
2nd period
David Backes (3)Jake DeBrusk (9), Danton Heinen (12)0–208:23 BOS · 
Charlie McAvoy (5)Jake DeBrusk (10), Danton Heinen (13)0–311:53 BOS ·
3rd period
Josh Anderson (13)Alexander Wennberg (12), Jack Johnson (5)1–308:32 CBJ
Danton Heinen (8)David Backes (3), Charlie McAvoy (13)1–412:30 BOS
Torey Krug (5)Anders Bjork (7), Ryan Spooner (5)1–515:44 BOS
Patrice Bergeron (8)Brad Marchand (15), David Pastrnak (16)1–617:26 BOS
Jake DeBrusk (7)Ryan Spooner (6)1–718:50 BOS
Seth Jones (5)Markus Nutivaara (10), Josh Anderson (8)2–719:46 CBJ ·
Team stats
CBJBOS
1845
55%45%
1/52/4
1719
2322
1914
95
815
Penalties
- 2:29 into the first period
Sean Kuraly · high sticking2 min - 2:53 into the first period
Cam Atkinson · holding2 min - 19:04 into the first periodRiley Nash · tripping2 min
- 6:47 into the second periodBoone Jenner · tripping2 min
- 10:06 into the second periodDavid Savard · holding2 min
- 17:01 into the second periodJosh Anderson · slashing2 min
- 17:01 into the second periodZdeno Chara · slashing2 min
- 18:44 into the second periodMatt Grzelcyk · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodPierre-Luc Dubois · roughing2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodCharlie McAvoy · illegal check to head2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodCharlie McAvoy · fighting5 min
- 0:53 into the third periodPierre-Luc Dubois · fighting5 min
- 2:33 into the third periodJake DeBrusk · boarding2 min
- 4:12 into the third periodMarkus Nutivaara · interference2 min
- 13:06 into the third periodJack Johnson · ps hooking on breakaway0 min
- 19:31 into the third periodBrandon Carlo · hooking2 min
Season series
Columbus Blue Jackets
| 77Josh AndersonR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | 20:29 |
| 10Alexander WennbergC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19:52 |
| 3Seth JonesD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 4 | 20:56 |
| 7Jack JohnsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21:22 |
| 65Markus NutivaaraD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 15:27 |
| 9Artemi PanarinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:48 |
| 11Matt CalvertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:49 |
| 13Cam AtkinsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:46 |
| 18Pierre-Luc DuboisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 14:29 |
| 22Sonny MilanoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 10:08 |
| 28Oliver BjorkstrandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 12:06 |
| 37Markus HannikainenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:13 |
| 38Boone JennerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:04 |
| 45Lukas SedlakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:07 |
| 71Nick FolignoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:26 |
| 4Scott HarringtonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:16 |
| 8Zach WerenskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 20:48 |
| 58David SavardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Joonas KorpisaloG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 72Sergei BobrovskyG | L | 45 | 7 | .844 |
Boston Bruins
| 43Danton HeinenC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13:15 |
| 74Jake DeBruskL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 12:03 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | 17:53 |
| 42David BackesR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13:40 |
| 51Ryan SpoonerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 15:54 |
| 63Brad MarchandC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 17:57 |
| 73Charlie McAvoyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 19:41 |
| 10Anders BjorkL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 10:51 |
| 88David PastrnakR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 15:43 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 22:15 |
| 47Torey KrugD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 20:06 |
| 20Riley NashC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:23 |
| 52Sean KuralyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13:50 |
| 55Noel AcciariC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:57 |
| 59Tim SchallerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12:07 |
| 25Brandon CarloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | 18:48 |
| 48Matt GrzelcykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:17 |
| 86Kevan MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:53 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Anton KhudobinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Tuukka RaskG | W | 18 | 2 | .889 |