The Bruins killed a four-minute power play in overtime and then beat the Capitals in a shootout, 3-2.
Just when it looked like the Bruins would kick away a game they should have captured, they came up up with a pretty good gut-check victory at Capital One Arena.
Kevin Shattenkirk notched the go-ahead shootout goal and then Jeremy Swayman stopped Connor McMichael to lift the B’s to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.
But the shootout wasn’t even the most dramatic part of the win.
Just 57 seconds into overtime, Hampus Lindholm was given a double minor for high-sticking T.J. Oshie, but the B’s and Jeremy Swayman managed to kill off the entire four minutes and get it to the shootout. Swayman stopped Alex Ovechkin on a point-plank shot through traffic and then, on the rebound, managed to get a glove on Dylan Strome’s shot from the top of the crease. From there, the penalty killers did a masterful job, getting in lanes and to loose pucks to kill it off. Brandon Carlo led the B’s with 5:26 of penalty kill time in the game, followed by Andrew Peeke with 4:03.
“Seeing the guys putting their bodies on the line like that, we’re going to need it down the stretch, that’s fun to see,” said Lindholm, who had an eventful game. “Super-impressed. Four minutes of 4-on-3, guys were really tired out there. But they were buying in and making guys work for it.”
Said Swayman: I think it was just our three working harder than their four.”
In the shootout, Jake DeBrusk and David Pastrnak beat Charlie Lindgren — Pastrnak’s shot just broke though Lindgren and rolled inside the post — but Sonny Milano beat Swayman in a must-score situation to extend it.
