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BRUINS vs. BLACKHAWKS

POST GAME NOTES

WHO’S HOT: • David Krejci had two power play goals tonight, giving him 6-2=8 totals in five of his last nine games. • Brian Gionta had a and an assist tonight, giving him 2-4=6 totals in four of his five games as a Bruin. • Jake DeBrusk had three power play assists tonight, giving him 3-6=9 totals in six of his last eight games. • Brad Marchand had two assists tonight, extending his point streak to five games with 5-6-12 totals in that stretch and giving him 7-7=14 totals in seven of his last eight games with 14-23=37 totals in 20 of his last 24 contests. • Noel Acciari had a goal tonight, snapping a six-game scoreless stretch since a goal Feb. 20 at Edmonton. • David Pastrnak had a goal tonight, giving him 3-10=13 totals in seven of his last ten games. • had a goal tonight, giving him 3-1=4 totals in three of his last six Boston games. • Sean Kuraly had a goal, assist and a fight tonight, snapping a 13-game scoreless stretch since a goal Feb. 7 at NY Rangers ... It is his first career hat trick and Boston’s second of the season (also Charlie McAvoy vs. Columbus on Dec. 18. • Nick Holden had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in four straight Boston games played. • Riley Nash had an assist tonight, giving him 3-5=8 totals in five of his last six games with 6-8=14 totals in ten of his last 15 contests. • Matt Grzelcyk had an assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last seven games. • Torey Krug had an assist tonight, giving him 3-7=10 totals in five of his last six games and giving him 6-13=19 totals in 12 of his last 17 contests. • Zdeno Chara had an assist tonight, giving him five assists in three of his last five games. • had an assist tonight, snapping a nine-game scoreless stretch since a goal Feb. 17 at Vancouver. • Chicago’s Erik Gustafsson had a goal and two assists tonight, giving him 2-4=6 totals in four of his last nine games. • Chicago’s had a goal tonight, giving 3-3=6 him totals in three of his last five games. • Chicago’s had a goal tonight in his first game back in Chicago since his recall this morning from Rockford/AHL ... It is his first Blackhawks game since Jan. 5 vs. Vegas and his first Chicago point since an assist Dec. 28 at Vancouver. • Chicago’s scored his first NHL goal and point tonight ... It is his sixth NHL game since his Feb. 26 recall from Rockford/AHL. • Chicago’s had an assist tonight, giving him 3-8=11 totals in seven of his last 11 games. • Chicago’s had an assist tonight, giving him 4-2=6 totals in four of his last eight games. • Chicago’s Alex DeBrincat had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last six games. • Chicago’s David Kampf had an assist tonight, giving him assists in consecutive games with 1-3=4 totals in four of his last nine games. • Chicago’s had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last five games, including each of his last two games. • Chicago’s had an assist tonight, 5-1=6 totals in six of his last 11 games.

THIS AND THAT: • The Bruins tonight became just the seventh team in NHL history to sweep a six-game home stand, joining Philadelphia (1984-85), Edmonton (1986-87), Detroit (2011-12), Los Angeles (2014-15) and Florida (2015-16 and earlier this season) • The Bruins twice held two-goal leads in tonight’s game ... It is the 33rd time this season that they have held a two-or-more-goal lead in a game and they now have a 30-0-3 record in those games ... They are 250-15-14 since the start of the 2011-12 season in games in which they have held a two-goal lead in a game. • The Bruins are playing their 13th of 16 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They now have a 9-3-1 record in game ones and a 6-4-2 mark in game twos of those series. • The Bruins are playing their 12th and 13th of 16 sets of three games in four nights tonight ... They have a 6-5-2 record in game ones, 8-2-2 in game twos and 9-1-1 in game threes of those sets this season. • The Bruins played today their eighth of ten afternoon game on this season’s schedule and they now have a 5-2-1 record in matinees this season.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 4 for 6 (66.7%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 47 for 213 on the power play this season (22.1%) and they have allowed seven shorthanded goals. • The Blackhawks went 0 for 2 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 37 for 240 on the power play this season (15.4%) and they have allowed five shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 2 for 2 (100.0%) on the kill tonight ... They are now 166 for 200 overall on the penalty kill this season (83.0%) and they have scored seven shorthanded goals. • The Blackhawks went 2 for 6 (33.3%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 163 for 203 on the penalty kill this season (80.3%) ... They have scored four shorthanded goals.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 374 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 drew 16,553.

Saturday, March 10, 2018 ... TD Garden; Boston MA