Welcome to the latest edition of the Boston Bruins’ 3 Up, 3 Down for the 2022-23 season. This will be a weekly column released on Mondays chronicling the highs and lows of the previous seven days.
It was another positive week for the Boston Bruins. They won two out of three games and made NHL history in the process. They became the first team in NHL history to begin a season with 12 consecutive wins on home ice and currently hold the top spot in the NHL with an 18-3-0 record.
While there were some positives, there were also some negatives during the week for Boston. Here is the latest 3 Up, 3 Down for the Black and Gold from the last seven days.
Plus One: Bruins Get Two Signature Wins
Even though the Bruins have been the best team in the NHL through the first six weeks, it has come with some outsiders saying that they lacked “signature wins.’’ That narrative changed last week with two wins against two teams that have given them problems in past seasons.
On Nov. 21, they began a two-game road trip in Florida with a 5-3 come-from-behind win over the defending Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning. It was an impressive win for Jim Montgomery’s crew as they were badly outplayed and outshot, 9-0, in the first eight minutes before falling behind on a Nick Paul goal. Late in the opening period, David Krejci scored on a slap shot that got by Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy. That started a run with the Bruins scoring five straight goals in the game to build a 5-1 lead and hold on for a 5-3 victory.
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After dropping the second game of the road trip against the Florida Panthers, 5-2, on Nov. 23, the Bruins returned home for their annual Black Friday game against the Carolina Hurricanes, who beat Boston in all three regular-season games last season and in seven games in the first round of the playoffs. After falling behind 2-0 on two first-period Carolina power play goals, once again, the Black and Gold rallied for an overtime victory. Krejci scored late in the second period and then tied the game in the third period, before David Pastrnak scored a power play goal with 1:14 remaining in the extra session for the 12th consecutive win to open the season on TD Garden ice.
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