The Key Notes, Analytics, from Boston's Preseason Game vs PHI

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Finally, hockey season has arrived. The Boston Bruins are back at TD Garden, to play the Philadelphia Flyers. The Bruins lineup will include the likes of captain, Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, and newly acquired winger, Pavel Zacha.

Lines:

Forwards: John Beecher, Patrice Bergeron, Jake DeBrusk, Nick Foligno, Trent Frederic, Taylor Hall, David Krejci, Fabian Lysell Marc McLaughlin, Tomas Nosek, Chris Wagner, Pavel Zacha

Defensemen: Jake Ahcan, Connor Clifton, Derek Forbort, Kai Wissman, Nick Wolff, Jakub Zboril

Goaltenders: Linus Ullmark, Keith Kinkaid

Pre-Game Notes:
  • Ullmark expected to play full-game
  • Bergeron centers Zacha and DeBrusk
  • Krejci centers Lysell and Hall
  • PP1: Bergeron-Krejci-DeBrusk-Hall-Zboril
  • PP2: Zacha-Lysell-Foligno-McLaughlin-Ahcan
1st Period Notes:
  • Good quick-up by Derek Forbort, leading to an opportunity for Pavel Zacha
  • Wagner draws an o-zone penalty
  • PP1 lacks dynamic attack and set-up
  • Lysell takes hooking penalty, after he turns over the puck
  • Bruins allow multiple pp cross-seam passes, Frost misses open net
  • Poor o-zone penalty by Jack Ahcan, after a great shift by Krejci's line
  • Beecher fails to clear on PK, turns the puck over
  • Bruins look flat with 5 minutes remaining
  • Clifton gets called for interference
  • Patient play by Beecher on the PK, circling with the puck to kill clock
  • Zboril steps-up at the blue line, levels a Flyers player
  • Philly outshoots Boston, 8-2
2nd Period Notes:
  • Boston gets an early power play, a minute into the second
  • PP units fail to generate any opportunities
  • Lysell goes down the tunnel, after a hit from Ristolainen
  • Wagner flattens three Flyers within a span of 40 seconds
  • DeBrusk outskates Ristolainen on a one-on-one, draws holding penalty
  • PP entry could use some work
  • Marc McLaughlin gets Boston on the board, tipping a Jack Ahcan point shot (assists: Ahcan, Zacha)
  • Clifton reverse hits a player, generates energy within the building
  • Extended zone time by Wagner line
  • Nick Wolff fights MacEewen
  • Lysell doesn't return in second period
  • Boston outshoots, 13-5
3rd Period Notes:
  • McLaughlin tallies his second, assisted by Bergeron and Frederic
  • Beecher redirects his first of the game, assisted by Forbort and Clifton
  • Beecher scores again two minutes later, on the empty net
  • Ullmark makes 21 saves for the shutout