Bruins Look To Sweep The Red Wings
Boston Bruins 88 pts (40-15-8) vs Detroit Red Wings 62 pts (26-29-10)
7 p.m. ET
TD Garden � Boston, MA
TV: NESN, NBCSN
Radio: 98.5 FM The Sports Hub
Season Series/Schedule
Date����� Game��� ������������������������������� GWG
12/13���� BOS 3 @ DET 2 OT����������� Patrice Bergeron
12/23���� DET 1 @ BOS 3� ��������������� Brad Marchand
2/6�������� BOS 3 @ DET 2� ��������������� Danton Heinen
3/6�������� DET @ BOS��������
Team Leaders
Bruins������������������ ����������������������������������������������� ��������������� Red Wings
Brad Marchand, 61��������� ��������������� Points�� ��������������� Dylan Larkin, 48
Patrice Bergeron, 27������ ��������������� Goals��� ��������������� Anthony Mantha, 21
Brad Marchand, 36��������� ��������������� Assists� ��������������� Dylan Larkin, 39
The Boston Bruins will look to sweep the four-game regular season series from the Detroit Red Wings tonight.�
The Bruins have dominated play against their Original 6 rivals of late.� They have points in 14 of their last 15 games versus the Red Wings, going 13-1-1 in that span.
The Bruins will be missing quite a few key players tonight.� Patrice Bergeron is still out with his fractured foot and earlier today that Charlie McAvoy will miss the rest of the regular season with a sprained MCL. �
Brandon Carlo will return to the top pairing with Zdeno Chara in McAvoy's absence.� Also, Matt Grzelcyk will return to the lineup after missing the last two games.
Anton Khudobin will get the start tonight because Tuukka Rask is nursing a lower-body injury that the team considers to be "very minor." Zane McIntyre will serve as Khudobin's backup tonight.
Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard will get a breather tonight after starting the last seven games.� With Petr Mrazek now in Philadelphia, Jared Coreau will make his first NHL start of the season.�
Coureau has a 3.46 goals-against average and an .887 save percentage in 14 previous NHL appearance.� He has been very good for the Grand Rapids Griffins this season with a 2.47 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage and was named the AHL's Goaltender of the Month for February.
Probable Bruins Lineup
FORWARDS
Brad Marchand - Riley Nash- David Pastrnak
Jake Debrusk- David Krejci - Rick Nash
Danton Heinen - David Backes - Brian Gionta
Tim Schaller - Sean Kuraly - Tommy Wingels
DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Zdeno Chara - Brandon Carlo
Torey Krug - Nick Holden
Matt Grzelcyk - Kevan Miller
GOALTENDER
Anton Khudobin (14-4-4, 2.34 GAA, .921 save %, 1 SO)
INJURY REPORT
LW-Anders Bjork (shoulder), C-Patrice Bergeron (foot) out, D-Charlie McAvoy (MCL) out, G-Tuukka Rask (day-to-day) out
Probable Red Wings Lineup
FORWARDS
Tyler Bertuzzi - Henrik Zetterberg - Gustav Nyquist
Justin Abdelkader - Dylan Larkin - Anthony Mantha
Andreas Athanasiou - Frans Nielsen - Darren Helm
Luke Witkowski - Luke Glendening - Martin Frk
DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS
Jonathan Ericsson - Trevor Daley
Danny DeKeyser - Nick Jensen
Niklas Kronwall - Mike Green
GOALTENDER
Jared Coreau (first start of the season)
INJURY REPORT
RW-Johan Franzen (concussion) out
