{"id":478345,"date":"2026-03-01T05:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/478345\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:42:29","slug":"bruins-held-scoreless-early-fall-to-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/478345\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Held Scoreless Early, Fall to Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Bruins<\/a> (33-21-5) fell to the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> (27-21-11) on Saturday afternoon after a scoreless first 40 minutes led to a four-goal third period. It marked the first Bruins\u2019 loss in regulation since January 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Charlie McAvoy<\/a> (5) netted the lone Bruins\u2019 goal, while Travis Konecny<\/a>, Jamie Drysdale<\/a>, and Sean Couturier<\/a> scored for the Flyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a goaltending battle for the first two periods. Dan Vladar<\/a> and Jeremy Swayman<\/a> were trading highlight-reel saves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Swayman made his presence known early with a sprawling blocker save while on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n

The NHL\u2019s most penalized team<\/a> only took two penalties on Saturday afternoon. Both came in the first period, and the shorthanded units killed them both.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the 8:33 mark of the first, Tanner Jeannot<\/a> met Nic Deslauriers<\/a> at center ice for a heavyweight bout. The two exchanged words during the pregame warmups<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH: Jeannot Lands a Series of Rights on Deslauriers\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Marco Sturm shuffled the lines during the first period, reuniting Morgan Geekie<\/a> with David Pastrnak<\/a> and Elias Lindholm<\/a> on the first line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marat Khusnutdinov<\/a> dropped to the third line with Mikey Eyssimont<\/a> and Fraser Minten<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After 20, the score showed zeroes. The Flyers had a 7-6 shots advantage and led 10-4 in hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bruins controlled play during the second period, but the game remained scoreless after 40 minutes. They poured 16 shots onto Dan Vladar during the middle frame; the Flyers only took three shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Four of Vladar\u2019s second-period saves were against Morgan Geekie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hampus Lindholm<\/a> broke the ice, or so we thought. The goal was immediately waved off due to goaltender interference. Mikey Eyssimont, with a little help from Travis Sanheim<\/a>, made contact with Vladar in his crease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, the Flyers benefited from a fortunate bounce off the glass. The puck hit a stanchion and landed perfectly on Christian Dvorak\u2019s<\/a> stick, and he played a backhand pass to Travis Konecny for the finish at the 3:41 mark<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not too long after their first goal, Jamie Drysdale had time and plenty of space, and he added to the Flyers\u2019 lead<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bruins responded 68 seconds later. Pavel Zacha<\/a> won the faceoff back to Hampus Lindholm. Lindholm played it to a crashing Charlie McAvoy\u2019s stick, and he<\/a>\u00a0beat Vladar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McAvoy now has 12 points (two goals, 10 assists) in the last nine games.<\/p>\n

Flyers captain Sean Couturier sealed the 3-1 win with an empty net goal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bruins still sit in the second wildcard spot; they are two points ahead of the Washington Capitals. On Tuesday night, the Bruins will play the Pittsburgh Penguins (30-15-13) as the playoff push continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins (33-21-5) fell to the Philadelphia Flyers (27-21-11) on Saturday afternoon after a scoreless first 40…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[95,2154,6878,58,1468,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-478345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-charlie-mcavoy","10":"tag-dan-vladar","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-flyers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","17":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116152327201500797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478345","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=478345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}