Montreal Canadiens (28-16-7, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Boston Bruins (29-20-2, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Boston; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins, on a six-game home winning streak, host the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n
Boston has gone 29-20-2 overall with an 8-8-0 record in Atlantic Division games. The Bruins have allowed 158 goals while scoring 168 for a +10 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Montreal is 28-16-7 overall and 9-7-1 against the Atlantic Division. The Canadiens are 12-4-3 in games decided by a single goal.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season. The Canadiens won 6-2 in the last matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Elias Lindholm has nine goals and 26 assists for the Bruins. Marat Khusnutdinov has six goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Lane Hutson has nine goals and 43 assists for the Canadiens. Cole Caufield has scored six goals and added four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 8-2-0, averaging four goals, 7.3 assists, 3.9 penalties and 10.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 6-3-1, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.4 assists, 4.6 penalties and 11.1 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bruins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens (28-16-7, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Boston Bruins (29-20-2, in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Saturday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[52813,301,154,95,5132,530,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-424957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-52813","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-bruins","12":"tag-bostonbruins","13":"tag-bruins","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115948349274484083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424957","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=424957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}