BOSTON BRUINS vs. NASHVILLE PREDATORS

POST GAME NOTES

MILESTONES REACHED: • Patrice Bergeron’s second goal tonight was the 300th of his NHL career.

WHO’S HOT: • Patrice Bergeron had two goals and two assists tonight in his first game back from missing 16 games with a rib/sternoclavicu- lar injury ... He now has 4-7=11 totals in six of his last seven games played. • David Pastrnak had a goal and two assists tonight, giving him 4-13=17 totals in eight of his last nine games with 6-15=21 totals in 11 of his last 13 contests. • Brad Marchand had a goal and two assists tonight, giving him 5-10=15 totals in seven of his last eight games with 6-12=18 totals in nine of his last 13 contests. • Charlie McAvoy had two assists tonight, giving him five assists in three of his last five games. • Sean Kuraly had a goal tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in two of his last five games. • Danton Heinen had an assist tonight, giving him 2-2=4 totals in three of his last eight games. • Jaroslav Halak had an assist tonight for his second assist of the season. • Nashville’s Roman Josi had two assists tonight, giving him 2-8=10 totals in seven of his last ten games. • Nashville’s Ryan Johansen had a goal tonight, giving him 1-4=5 totals in three of his last four games with 2-8=10 totals in seven of his last 11 contests. • Nashville’s Kyle Turris had a goal tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in six games played since missing eight games with an injury. • Nashville’s Craig Smith had an assist tonight, giving him 4-3=7 totals in six of his last 11 games. • Nashville’s Miikka Salomaki had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in four of his last nine games.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 2 for 3 (66.7%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 31 for 113 on the power play this season (27.4%) and they have allowed five shorthanded goals. • The Predators went 0 for 2 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 18 for 126 on the power play this season (14.3%) and they have allowed five shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 2 for 2 (100.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 83 for 105 overall on the penalty kill this season (79.0%) and they have scored one shorthanded goal. • The Predators went 1 for 3 (33.3%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 97 for 120 on the penalty kill this season (80.8%) ... They have scored four shorthanded goals.

TWO-GOAL LEADS: • The Bruins held two- and three-goal leads in tonight’s game ... It is the 16th time this season that they have held a two-or-more- goal lead in a game and they now have a 15-1-0 record in those games ... They are 271-16-15 since the start of the 2011-12 season in games in which they have held a two-goal lead in a game and that extends to 174-1-4 when they have led by three- or-more goals in a game.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 402 straight regular season and playoff games starting on Dec. 5, 2009 vs. Ottawa. • Their last non-sellout game at TD Garden was on Dec. 2, 2009 when a Wednesday game vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning drew 16,553.

BACK-TO-BACK GAMES: • The Bruins opened their eighth of 14 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They now have a 4-3-1 record in game ones and a 6-0-1 mark in game twos of those series.

THREE GAMES IN FOUR NIGHTS: • The Bruins played game two of their ninth of 17 sets of three games in four nights tonight ... They currently have a 3-5-1 record in game ones, 6-1-2 in game twos and 6-1-1 in game threes of those sets this season.

MATINEES: • The Bruins played today their third of ten afternoon games on this season’s schedule and they are now 3-0-0 in matinees.

Saturday, December 22, 2018 ... TD Garden; Boston MA