The Geekies had quite a day for themselves on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Morgan headed off in the morning to his job as a Boston Bruin for a matinee against the New York Rangers while his wife Emma, deep into her pregnancy, hitched a ride with another player\u2019s wife to the game.<\/p>\n
Neither of them finished out the game.<\/p>\n
A bit ahead of schedule, Emma went into labor during the game and both she and Morgan had to skedaddle after the first period. Before the day was out, the couple welcomed a healthy, eight-pound baby boy, Max. Geekie missed Sunday\u2019s game as well but he was set to get back in the lineup on Tuesday against the Red Wings.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously it\u2019s been on my mind for a while because it\u2019s very unpredictable,\u201d said Geekie after the morning skate. \u201cBut my wife\u2019s a champ and she was great. It\u2019s tough to get that out of your mind, especially when things are at the forefront. It\u2019s good everybody\u2019s healthy and just looking to get back to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Max joins sister Gabby, and he\u2019ll have a good story to tell one day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kind of snuck out of here, but it was good,\u201d said Geekie. \u201cObviously a long couple of days but it\u2019s good to be back here and be back with the guys. Obviously I\u2019ve gotten a lot of texts. It seemed pretty somber at the start but it was good. We\u2019re happy with how things ended up and just excited everyone\u2019s healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps the good vibes helped his teammates in their most dominant win of the season, the 10-2 shellacking of the Blueshirts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he left the game after the first period, I could hear the guys all clapping. It was sad to see him leave but we know the importance of family,\u201d said coach Marco Sturm.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys were really happy to see him today. It just shows the character of the team we have in our locker room. It\u2019s been really great and supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Geekie has been mired in his first goal-scoring slump in a year, having gone nine games without a goal going into Tuesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
He hoped the adrenaline he was still feeling at the morning skate would translate into an ice-breaker for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have liked that 10 games ago but we\u2019ll take what we can get,\u201d said Geekie. \u201cBut we\u2019re finding ways to win games, even the last two I haven\u2019t been a part of. The team\u2019s played great and that\u2019s what\u2019s important now going into the (Olympic) break.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sturm said the episode is a good glimpse into the lives of players, who have the same worries and concerns everyone else has.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow you can tell, a lot people don\u2019t know what players actually go through. If you have a stretch like this, you have a pregnant wife at home, they had no parents in town \u2026 it\u2019s a lot on Morgan, too,\u201d said Sturm. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know actually what\u2019s happening (behind the scenes). He\u2019s such a good person but also a good dad. I\u2019ve seen him. There\u2019s a lot on those players. They\u2019re dads, too, so that\u2019s why. I\u2019m not worried about him at all. Hopefully, he gets one for his little one today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris all smiles<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a long time coming, but Jordan Harris took the notable step of joining the team for the morning skate a the Garden on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He suffered a broken ankle in Bostom\u2019s loss to the Florida Panthers on Oct. 21 and the road back has had his starts and stops. But while he remains on long-term injured reserve, he seems to have gotten over a hump in his recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really happy to be out there, first of all. It\u2019s been a little bit since I\u2019ve seen you guys and since I\u2019ve seen these guys on the ice,\u201d said the Haverhill native, who underwent the first surgery of his career. \u201cThere were a couple of things we were trying to figure out with it all but I\u2019m really thankful for our staff that we have here. Throughout the whole process, they\u2019ve been communicating really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
After being out for so long, just being with his teammates again was therapeutic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s huge. It\u2019s so much fun. I felt like every two seconds I was out there, smiling and laughing with the guys, chirping them, they were chirping me. It\u2019s just what you\u2019ve been doing your whole life. It\u2019s great to be back out there, especially on this ice and in this building. It was a really good day,\u201d said the former Northeastern Huskie.<\/p>\n
It was a tough break for Harris. After Columbus failed to qualify him last summer, the B\u2019s signed him to a one-year deal worth $825,000. Jumping into the lineup for an injured Hampus Lindholm at the time, the 25-year-old Harris was off to a good start with a goal and an assist in five games.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the first day I stepped into Warrior, it\u2019s been an absolute blast,\u201d said Harris. \u201cIt\u2019s been a dream come true to play for the Bruins. It was only five games at the beginning of the year, but I didn\u2019t take it for granted. Every single shift, every single game has meant so much to me and my family. And I felt good on the ice. And I do feel good, but I was happy with my start. Hopefully I can get back in a rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n
If every defenseman gets healthy \u2013 a big if in this season \u2013 the B\u2019s will have a crowded blue line and it would require moving a player. They\u2019ve already got Vladislav Kolyachonok, who was picked up on waivers, sitting out as a healthy scratch. Lindholm, who has missed the last week-plus with an undisclosed injury and is on IR, is back skating and is could practice this week. Harris would make it three extra D. Something will have to give at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geekies had quite a day for themselves on Saturday. Morgan headed off in the morning to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,19428,4261,40,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-405755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jordan-harris","14":"tag-morgan-geekie","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115889429757360661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}