{"id":518141,"date":"2026-03-23T08:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/518141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:09:59","slug":"bruins-beat-the-red-wings-4-2-in-an-eastern-conference-wild-card-showdown-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/518141\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins beat the Red Wings 4-2 in an Eastern Conference wild-card showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Defenseman Nikita Zadorov broke a tie at 9:42 of the third period and the Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on Saturday night in an Eastern Conference wild-card showdown.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Swayman made 41 saves to help Boston move two points ahead of Detroit for the first wild-card spot. David Pastrnak, Elias Lindholm and Marat Khusnutdinov also scored for the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Raymond and Alex DeBrincat scored for Detroit. John Gibson stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Zadorov put the Bruins ahead with a long wrist shot that seemed to surprise Gibson as it sailed past his blocker. The defenseman has two goals this season.<\/p>\n<p>After Boston took the lead in the third, the Bruins&#8217; Lukas Reichel had a chance to wrap it up with a penalty shot, but Gibson made a pad save. Khusnutdinov, scored into an empty-net goal with 1:52 left.<\/p>\n<p>DeBrincat put Detroit ahead 2-1 at 4:06 of the third, ripping a wrist shot over Swayman\u2019s glove from the top of the left circle, and Lindholm countered for Boston at 6:22.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Geekie had three assists, giving him seven points in four games against Detroit this season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Bruins: Host Toronto on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Red Wings: Host Ottawa on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>___ AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Defenseman Nikita Zadorov broke a tie at 9:42 of the third period and the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5101],"tags":[6017,95,2178,599,93,5137,2217,4512,5,156,12641,596,8669,6527,4261,4,3387,72,3358,5138,66,5481],"class_list":{"0":"post-518141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-alex-debrincat","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-david-pastrnak","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-red-wings","13":"tag-detroitredwings","14":"tag-eastern-conference","15":"tag-elias-lindholm","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-jeremy-swayman","18":"tag-john-gibson","19":"tag-lucas-raymond","20":"tag-lukas-reichel","21":"tag-marat-khusnutdinov","22":"tag-morgan-geekie","23":"tag-nhl","24":"tag-nikita-zadorov","25":"tag-ottawa","26":"tag-red-wings","27":"tag-redwings","28":"tag-toronto","29":"tag-wild-card-spot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116277478937869780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518141","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=518141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}