Bruins Score 3 In 2nd Period, Beat Red Wings 3-1
KEN POWTAK, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Patrice Bergeron scored the first of Boston's three second-period goals that lifted the Bruins to a 3-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.
David Krejci and Torey Krug also scored for the Bruins, who posted just their second home win this season (2-5-1).
Boston's Tuukka Rask made 22 saves. He had allowed 27 goals in his previous seven home games.
Justin Abdelkader scored a third-period, power-play goal for Detroit, which has lost its last five meetings with the Bruins.
Peter Mrazek stopped 28 shots for Detroit, which was coming off a 3-2 loss at home against San Jose on Friday night.
Bergeron's goal made it 1-0 at 7:18 of the second. He fired a wrist shot from the right wing, the puck popped over the right shoulder of Mrazek and into the crease. Bergeron hustled in and backhanded it into the net.
Krejci's scored just under 4 minutes later when he shifted from the left circle to the middle of the ice and slipped a wrister past Mrazek.
Late in the second, Brad Marchand raced to a puck along the boards, knocked Henrik Zetterberg's stick out of his hands before moving in on a 2-on-1 play with Krug, who one-timed a shot into the net.
Trailing 3-1 with a power play in the closing 4 minutes, Detroit pulled the goaltender, but Rask made a solid stop on Riley Sheahan's close bid.
Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk played his second straight after missing the first 15 games of the season while recovering from offseason ankle surgery.
The Bruins owned a 12-5 edge in shots on goal during a scoreless first, but the Red Wings had two excellent chances. Zetterberg fired one squarely off the right post and Rask came sliding across for a pad save to rob Abdelkader at the end of a 2-on-1 break.
NOTES: The Bruins honored the memory of the Paris terror victims and showed support for those affected by the attacks by playing the national anthem of France before the game. They also had the ice split into three colors by lights — red, white and blue — to match France's flag. . Boston defensemen Dennis Seidenberg (700) Adam McQuaid (300) will both reach milestones with their next game played. ... Forty-nine years ago Saturday, Gordie Howe became the then-NHL's all-time scoring leader with his 627th goal. ... It was the first of four meetings between the clubs.
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