In another sign that this Bruins team is different than recent vintages and worthy of investment, they overcame their own personal Planes, Trains and Automobiles experience to bank another two points.<\/p>\n
The B\u2019s players harkened back to their minor league days when they took a convoy of team buses from snowy New York when plane travel wasn\u2019t going to be possible and didn\u2019t make it home until the early afternoon prior to their 7 pm game against the Nashville Predators. It was clear they didn\u2019t have their best on Tuesday night against the Preds, but they still managed to grind out a 3-2 overtime win at TD Garden.<\/p>\n
It was all hands on deck as Bruins skating and skills coach John McLean helped shovel out the players\u2019 cars at the team airport parking lot prior to the buses arrival, and the Bruins team chefs \u2013 Peter Haney\u00a0and Spencer Thompson \u2013 traveled to the airport scene to make pregame meals for the players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually very happy. Nobody was complaining. We just did the best possible, right? It was a little bit out of our control, so we just had to grind it out a little bit,\u201d said Marco Sturm. \u201cGuys did a really good job. Our staff, everyone around, helped us with food, getting the snow off our cars to make it easier for our players to get home. I would say it was a whole team effort from everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys were ready to go today. Things don\u2019t always go perfect, but our third today was better than yesterday. Guys showed character and at the end of the day we\u2019ll take points whenever we can get them. We\u2019ll take all the points we can get, and after the season nobody is going to ask [how you got them] so I\u2019ve been really pleased with how the last couple of weeks have gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then the B\u2019s rewarded those efforts with a winning performance on the ice that saw David Pastrnak\u00a0score the game-winning goal 15 seconds into overtime after\u00a0Charlie McAvoy\u00a0threw a net-front pass to the game-breaking winger.<\/p>\n
The extent of the travel issues was learned after the game was over and is exactly the kind of adversity and team building that shows exactly the kind of stuff that everybody within an NHL organization is made out of. Needless to say, the B\u2019s passed the test and continue to show resiliency when last season\u2019s edition of the Black and Gold would have folded the tents and called it a day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s huge. Especially when you are kind of faced with adversity a little bit like that, it\u2019s easy to throw in the towel and make some excuses,\u201d said Morgan Geekie, who scored his fifth goal in as many games during Tuesday night\u2019s victory. \u201cBut I think it just speaks to the character of the group that we know nothing is going to come easy, and we\u2019re ready to battle through adversity whenever that may be. These are the games we\u2019ll talk about when our careers and stuff are done.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the ice, the game actually looked and felt a lot like Monday night\u2019s OT loss in New York as the Bruins built a one goal lead without being able to extend it, and then watched as Nashville scored the tying goal midway through the third period. But it was exactly how the B\u2019s drew it up in the extra session with the OT faceoff specialist Mark Kastelic\u00a0winning possession, and then McAvoy and Pastrnak playing a three-man weave in the offensive zone before clinching the game 15 seconds into OT.<\/p>\n
Hampus Lindholm and Morgan Geekie scored the goals in the first period, the B\u2019s managed to grind through an upper-body injury to Elias Lindholm that knocked him out of the game, and they managed to take three of four points in a grueling back-to-back setup with travel that saw them playing with tired legs throughout both games.<\/p>\n
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