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vs. ST. LOUIS BLUES GAME 1 - FINAL POST-GAME NOTES

RECORDS FOLLOWING GAME ONE: • The Bruins now have an all-time record of 54-49 in game ones of best-of-seven series (7-12-1 in games ones of Stanley Cup Final series & 6-11 in best-of-seven Final series) ... The Blues are now 33-31 in game ones of best-of-seven series (0-4 in games ones of Stanley Cup Final series). • The Bruins have a 32-20 record in game twos when leading a series 1-0 (4-2 in SCF) ... The Blues have a 14-16 record in game twos when trailing a series 0-1 (0-3 in SCF). • The Bruins have a 37-16 all-time record in best-of-seven series when they lead a series 1-0 (5-1 in SCF) ... The Blues have a 6-24 all-time record in best-of-seven series when they trail a series 0-1 (0-3 in Stanley Cup Final series).

WHO’S HOT: • Tuukka Rask extended his playoff win streak to eight games with tonight’s 4-2 win ... It is the second-longest playoff win streak by a in club history, trailing only Gerry Cheevers’ ten-game stretch from April 14-May 10, 1970. • had a tonight, giving him single goals each in two of his last four games with 2-2=4 totals in four of his last seven contests. • Charlie McAvoy had a goal tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last three games. • had a goal and an assist tonight, giving him 1-3=4 totals in three of his last five games. • had a goal tonight, giving him 4-6=10 totals in six of his last eight games. • Joakim Nordstrom had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in two of his last three games. • had an assist tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in three of his last seven games played. • Zdeno Chara had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in two of his last seven games. • St. Louis’ had a goal and an assist tonight, giving him 2-3=5 totals in four of his last five games ... It is his second multiple- game of this post-season. • St. Louis’ had a goal tonight, extending his point streak to seven games with 4-5=9 totals in that stretch ... Per NHL stats, that is tied for the third-longest playoff point streak in Blues history and is the longest since ’s seven-game stretch in 1998. • St. Louis’ had an assist tonight, giving him 6-3=9 totals in six of his last ten games with 12-4=16 totals in ten of his last 16 contests. • St. Louis’ had an assist tonight, snapping a ten-game scoreless stretch since a two-assist effort on Apr. 29 at Dallas.

THIS AND THAT: • The Bruins extended their playoff win streak to eight games with tonight’s 4-2 win ... It is the third-longest playoff win streak in club history, trailing only a nine-game stretch from April 8-May 2, 1972 and the club-record ten-game span from April 14-May 10, 1970. • The Bruins stretched their power play goal streak to five straight games, as they went 1 for 5 in tonight’s game ... They are now 8 for 20 (40.0%) over that span. • Their 18 power play goals this post-season is tied for the third-most of any one post-season in team history (1971-72), trailing the 19 scored in 1987-88 and team-record 24 in 1990-91. • Tonight’s game was the first of this post-season in which the Bruins overcame a two-goal deficit in a game ... They had entered tonight’s game 0-4 in games in which they had trailed by two goals.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 1 for 5 (20.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 18 for 55 (32.7%) on the power play this post- season and have allowed one shorthanded goal. • The Blues went 0 for 2 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 12 for 64 (18.8%) on the power play this post-season and have allowed three shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 2 for 2 (100.0%) on the kill tonight ... They are now 46 for 53 (86.8%) on the penalty kill this post- season and have scored one shorthanded goal. • The Blues went 4 for 5 (80.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 36 for 46 (78.3%) on the penalty kill this post-sea- son and have not yet scored a shorthanded goal.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 436 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.

Monday, May 27, 2019 ... TD Garden; Boston MA