\u201cThat wasn\u2019t the first period that we wanted, knowing the stakes of this game, but I think we started to find it in the second,\u201d Charlie McAvoy said. \u201cOur mindset was we\u2019re just a shot away from this being a very different game. That\u2019s the resilience, I think, that we\u2019ve tried to embody all year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both teams were kept off the scoresheet in the middle frame, but Boston felt its play was building.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know when we don\u2019t have a good start, we find a way to come back to games. Today, I think Jeannot and Kasty gave us the little pulse we needed coming into the second period,\u201d Zacha said. \u201cAnd then kind of sticking with it, second and third period. Finding a way to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bruins battled in the third period.\u00a0McAvoy put the B\u2019s on the board at 6:29. Arvidsson chipped the puck down to Zacha in the corner, who pushed it up to McAvoy at the point, where he wristed it in for the 3-1 scoreline and his 11th goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Zacha pulled Boston within one, 3-2, with a power-play goal soon after. It was the same trio who made it happen. This time, Arvidsson whacked the puck up to McAvoy, who unleashed a shot that Zacha tipped in at 8:43. McAvoy\u2019s assist on the play earned the defenseman a new career-high in points with 57 (11 goals, 46 assists).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just made enough plays in the third period to get us back into it,\u201d McAvoy said.<\/p>\n
It was Zacha, again, who knotted things 3-3 at 19:49 while on the power play. Arvidsson \u2013 who picked up his third assist of the night \u2013 poked the puck loose in front for Zacha to knock in. It was his 28th goal of the season and fifth in the last three games.<\/p>\n
The matchup ultimately went to overtime and the shootout, where the Bruins pulled off a character, come-from-behind win that earned them two more points in the Eastern Conference playoff race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it will absolutely help us without confidence,\u201d McAvoy said. \u201cFor the stakes at the end of the year and moving forward, we have that in our head like, \u2018Hey boys, we\u2019ve done it before, we\u2019ve been there before, we\u2019ve done it.\u2019 And we can have that real belief.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat wasn\u2019t the first period that we wanted, knowing the stakes of this game, but I think we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-530568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-blue-jackets","9":"tag-bluejackets","10":"tag-columbus","11":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","12":"tag-columbusbluejackets","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116316336667243897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530568","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=530568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}