NHL roundup: Pumas snatch 3-1 lead in East series with 3-2 win over Bruins BOSTON (AP) — Aleksander Barkov fallen through three Bruins protectors to score the go on objective on Sunday night, and Sergei Bobrovsky halted 16 shots to give the Florida Jaguars a 3-2 triumph over Boston and a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Meeting Florida Jaguars’ Aleksander Barkov (16) celebrates after his objective with Kyle Okposo (8), Gustav Forsling (42) and Vladimir Tarasenko (10) during the third time frame in Game 4 of a NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round season finisher series against the Boston Bruins, Sunday, May 12, 2024, in Boston.
(AP Photograph/Michael Dwyer) BOSTON (AP) — Aleksander Barkov fallen through three Bruins protectors to score the go on objective on Sunday night, and Sergei Bobrovsky halted 16 shots to give the Florida Jaguars a 3-2 triumph over Boston and a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Meeting elimination round series.
One year after Florida took out the unprecedented Bruins in the principal round en route to the Stanley Cup last, the Jaguars won their third in a row to send Boston really close to disposal. Sam Bennett and Anton Lundell likewise scored for the Pumas, who scored multiple times in succession to revitalize from a two-objective shortage.
Florida can progress toward the Eastern Meeting last with a triumph in Game 5 at home on Tuesday. Playing without commander and driving scorer in the post-season Brad Marchand, Boston leaped out to a 2-0 lead with objectives from David Pastrnak and Brandon Carlo.
Jeremy Swayman made 38 puts something aside for the Bruins. One game after his hit — or, as the Bruins accept, his blindside — took Marchand out of Game 4, Bennett scored a contested objective to tie the game 2-2 around four minutes into the third time frame. After Swayman made a save money on Lundell, Bennett gave Boston’s Charlie Coyle a push, sending him into the goaltender, and afterward flipped the puck into the net.
The Bruins tested, guaranteeing goaltender impedance, however the replay affirmed the objective. Boston, which lost three of its last four games in the customary season to fall one point underneath Florida in the Atlantic Division, presently should win three straight — with two out and about — to stay alive in the end of the season games. Somewhere else in the NHL on Sunday: — CANUCKS 4 OILERS 3 EDMONTON, Alta. (AP) — Brock Boeser had two objectives and a help, Elias Lindholm likewise scored two times, and Vancouver clutched beat Edmonton 4-3 to take a 2-1 lead in their Western Meeting season finisher series. Quinn Hughes and J.T. Mill operator each had two helps, and new kid on the block goalie Arturs Silovs halted 42 shots for the Canucks. Mattias Ekholm, Leon Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard scored for the Oilers. Stuart Skinner halted 11 of 15 shots before he was supplanted by Calvin Pickard to begin the third time frame. Pickard wrapped up with three recoveries in his NHL season finisher debut.
Game 4 in the best-of-seven series is Tuesday in Edmonton. Edmonton’s association driving strategic maneuver was 2-for-4, and Vancouver was 2-for-3.
The Oilers’ strong show of dominance got to work right off the bat in the principal period after Boeser was shipped off for cutting. After Evander Kane’s shot was impeded before the Vancouver net, the puck bobbed out to Ekholm, who discharged it past Silovs to put Edmonton up 5:37 into the game.
Ekholm currently has objectives in three straight season finisher games — and is the primary Oilers’ defenceman to accomplish the accomplishment since Paul Coffey in 1985.
