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POST-GAME NOTES

MILESTONES REACHED: • Anton Blidh scored his first NHL tonight. • Anton Khudobin recorded an assist tonight for his first NHL .

WHO’S HOT: • Anton Blidh scored his first NHL goal tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last five games played. • Dominic Moore had a goal tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two straight games. • had an assist tonight, snapping a seven-game scoreless stretch since assists in consecutive games Dec. 3 at Buf- falo and Dec. 5 vs. Florida. • Anton Khudobin had an assist tonight for his first career NHL point. • Jimmy Hayes had an assist tonight, giving him 1--1=2 totals in his last two straight games ... They are his first points in consecutive games since Feb. 22-24 of last (assist vs. Columbus and goal vs. Pittsburgh). • Zdeno Chara had an assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last three games. • New York’s Anders Lee had two goals and an assist tonight, giving him 7-3=10 totals in seven of his last nine games ... It is a season-high in points for Lee. • New York’s Josh Bailey had two assists tonight, giving him three assists in two straight games. • New York’s Thomas Hickey had a goal tonight, snapping a nine-game scoreless stretch since points in consecutive games Nov. 26 vs. Calgary (game-winning goal) and Nov. 30 vs. Pittsburgh (assist). • New York’s Nikolay Kulemin had a goal tonight, giving him 2-2=4 totals in four of his last five games. • New York’s had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in two of his last four games. • New York’s Nick Leddy had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in four of his last eight games.

THIS AND THAT: • The Bruins outshot the Islanders by a 50-29 margin tonight ... It was a season-high in shots for Boston and the seventh time this season they have had 40+ shots in a game ... It was their most shots since they took 50 vs. Toronto on Apr. 4, 2015 in a 2-1 shootout loss. • Anton Khudobin replaced Tuukka Rask in goal at 6:18 of the second period ... Rask played 26:18 and gave up three goals on 13 shots ... It was the first time Rask has been relieved in a game since April 3 of last year in Chicago when Jonas Gustavsson came in after 22 minutes of play. • The Bruins opened tonight in their ninth set of three games in four nights ... They now have a 4-4-1 record in game ones, 2-4-2 in game twos and 3-5-0 in game threes of those sets this season.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 0 for 3 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 13 for 102 on the power play this season (12.7%) and they have allowed four shorthanded goals. • The Islanders went 1 for 3 (33.3%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 12 for 89 on the power play this season (13.5%) and they have allowed two shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 2 for 3 (66.7%) on the kill tonight ... They are now 98 for 113 overall on the penalty kill this season (86.7%) and they have scored two shorthanded goals. • The Islanders went 3 for 3 (100.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 85 for 108 on the penalty kill this season (78.7%) ... They have scored one shorthanded goal.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 311 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.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 ... TD Garden; Boston MA