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Boston Bruins @ Washington Capitals
7pm ET
Boston TV/Radio: NESN, 98.5 FM The Sports Hub
Capital One Arena, Washington DC
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Jaroslav Halak
3GP 2-0-0-1 .938 GAA 1.30 GAA
Vitek Vanecek
7GP 5-0-0-2 .918 GAA 2.78 Sv%
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Referees
Pierre Lambert (37) - St-Hubert, QC
Frederick L'Ecuyer (17) - St-Tite, QC
Linesmen
Andrew Smith (51) - Kitchener, ON
Julien Fournier (56) - Gatineau, QC
TONIGHT’S GAME - The Bruins visit the Capitals tonight in the 2nd of 8 games between these teams this season and the 2nd of 4 to be played at Capital One Arena this year. - The Bruins play gm 2 of a 4-game road trip tonight (0-0-1), continuing in Philadelphia on 2/3 and 2/5.
MILESTONES APPROACHING - Charlie McAvoy is one point short of his 100th NHL point. - Patrice Bergeron is three games short of his 1,100th NHL game. - Brad Marchand is five goals short of his 300th NHL goal. - Tuukka Rask is six wins shy of his 300th NHL victory.
INJURIES (Total man-games lost in 2019-20: 15) - Jake DeBrusk – lower body - Ondrej Kase – upper body - Matt Grzelcyk – lower body - Jack Studnicka - Undisclosed
BOSTON vs WASHINGTON, LIFETIME SERIES - The Bruins and Capitals are meeting for the 165th time in their histories with the Bruins having a 78-52-21-13 record and 526-464 scoring advantage in those games. - The Bruins are 35-27-12-8 vs. the Capitals lifetime on the road with a 253-244 scoring edge in those 82 contests. - The Bruins are 2-1-2 in their last 5 games vs. Washington following an 0-11-3 stretch in their previous 14 games from 10/11/2014-1/10/2019 ... They are 5-13-6 overall in their last 24 games of this lifetime series ... A 1-0 win in Washington on 2/3/2019 snapped an 0-5-2 road winless streak and they are 3-6-5 in their last 14 road games vs. the Capitals. - The Capitals won the 1st game of this season’s series with a 4-3 OT win in WSH on 1/30 ... Nick Ritchie, Brad Marchand and Charlie McAvoy scored the Boston goals with Tuukka Rask taking the point in net.
NUMBERS 1: Player on the current roster new to the Bruins organization this season –Craig Smith (free agent signing)
3: Rookies on the Bruins’ current roster –Trent Frederic, Jack Studnicka, Jakub Zboril
5: Game point streak by Brad Marchand with 4-4=8 totals in that span ... Charlie McAvoy has 1-6=7 totals in his last 4 straight games while Patrice Bergeron (4-5=9) and Nick Ritchie (3-3=6) have points in four of their last five games each.
9: Former first round draft picks on the current roster – Charlie Coyle, Jake DeBrusk, Trent Frederic, Charlie McAvoy, John Moore, David Pastrnak, Tuukka Rask, Nick Ritchie and Jakub Zboril
10: Players on the Bruins current roster who played college hockey – Anders Bjork, Connor Clifton, Charlie Coyle, Trent Frederic, Matt Grzelcyk, Sean Kuraly, Charlie McAvoy, Kevan Miller, Craig Smith and Chris Wagner
297-17-27: Boston’s record since the start of the 2010-11 season when they have carried a lead into the third period
324-21-19: Boston’s record since 2011-12 in games in which they have had a 2-goal lead in a game ... That extends to 207-2-6 over that span when they have led by 3 goals
474: Consecutive Bruins games (regular season and playoffs) currently sold out at TD Garden ... Their last non-sellout game was on 12/2/2009 when a Wednesday game vs. TB drew 16,553
FUN FACTS - The Bruins currently have 25 players on their roster (including players on IR) … 13 were drafted by the team, 5 were acquired in trade and 7 were signed as free agents. - The Bruins play 10 matinees this season (local start time 4:00 pm or earlier) … They have an 0-0-1 record in afternoon games so far. - The Bruins play 8 sets of back-to-back games this season … They are currently 0-0-0 in the 1st game of those sets and are 0-0-0 in the 2nd games so far. - They will play 14 sets of 3-games-in-4-nights this season … They are 0-0-0 in game 1s, 0-0-0 in game 2s and 0-0-0 in game 3s of those series thus far. - The Bruins are opening a 14-game February schedule tonight (5 hm/9 rd, 0-0-0) … They will play 14 games in March (9 hm/5 rd), 15 in April (7 hm/8 rd) and 5 in May (3 hm/2 rd) ... They went 5-1-2 in January.
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