BOSTON BRUINS vs. ARIZONA COYOTES POST GAME NOTES MILESTONES REACHED: • Arizona’s Kyle Capobianco played his first NHL game tonight. WHO’S HOT: • David Backes had two goals tonight, giving him points in consecutive games (2-1=3 totals) with his first goals since Mar. 28 of last season vs. Nashville. • Brad Marchand had a goal and an assist tonight, extending his point streak to four games with 2-5=7 totals in that stretch. • David Krejci had a goal and an assist tonight, giving him 3-3=6 totals in four of his last five games. • Patrice Bergeron had two assists tonight, giving him four assists in three straight games with 1-5=6 totals in five of his last nine games. • Riley Nash had two assists tonight, giving him 1-5=6 totals in five of his last six games. • Danton Heinen had a goal tonight, giving him 3-4=7 totals in seven of his last ten games. • Anders Bjork had a goal tonight, giving him 1-2=3 totals in three of his last six games. • David Pastrnak had an assist tonight, extending his point streak to seven games with 4-4=8 totals in that stretch. • Kevan Miller had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last 11 games. • Matt Grzelcyk had an assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in three of his last seven games. • Arizona’s Christian Dvorak had a goal tonight, giving him 1-3=4 totals in four of his last nine games with his first goal since Nov. 16 in Montreal. THIS AND THAT: • Brad Marchand’s goal at the 0:15 mark of the first period tonight was the earliest by a Bruin in a game since Marchand set a club record just 0:08 into a game in Detroit on Feb. 14, 2016. • Tonight was the 11th game this season in which the Bruins have opened a two-goal lead and they are now 10-0-1 in those games ... They are 7-0-1 this season when taking a three-goal lead in a game. • Boston extended their win streak vs. Arizona to 12 straight games with tonight’s victory ... The Bruins have not lost to the Coy- otes since Oct. 9, 2010 (5-2 home loss in Prague). • The Bruins did not have to kill a penalty tonight for the second time this season (also Nov. 15 at Anaheim). SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 1 for 4 (25.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 16 for 84 on the power play this season (19.0%) and they have allowed two shorthanded goals. • The Coyotes did not have a power play tonight ... They are now 17 for 97 on the power play this season (17.5%) and they have allowed four shorthanded goals. • The Bruins did not have to kill a penalty tonight ... They are now 67 for 79 overall on the penalty kill this season (84.8%) and they have scored two shorthanded goals. • The Coyotes went 3 for 4 (75.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 68 for 84 on the penalty kill this season (81.0%) ... They 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 352 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. Thursday, December 7, 2017 ... TD Garden; Boston MA THIS AND THAT: • x TWO-GOAL LEADS: • The Bruins have held a 0-0 lead in tonight’s game ... It is the seventh time this season that they have held a two-or-more-goal lead in a game and they entered tonight’s game with a 5-0-1 record in those games ... They are 227-15-12 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 142-1-4 when they have led by three-or-more goals in a game. BACK-TO-BACK GAMES: • The Bruins are wrapping up their second of 14 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They entered today’s game with a 1-0-1 record in game ones and a 0-1-0 mark in game twos of those series. THREE GAMES IN FOUR NIGHTS: • The Bruins are finishing their first of 16 sets of three games in four nights tonight ... They have a 0-1-0 record in game ones, 0-0-1 in game twos and 0-0-0 in game threes of those sets this season. MATINEES: • The Bruins are playing today their third of ten afternoon game on this season’s schedule and they entered today’s game with an 0-2-0 record in matinees this season. ATTENDANCE: ** NOT UPDATED ** • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 350 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..