Bruins Top Line Did Something For The First Time All Season On Tuesday
Elliotte Freidman of Sportsnet had an interesting tidbit on the Boston Bruins top line during his latest 31 Thoughts column.�
During Tuesday night's 5-1 victory over the New York Islanders, Jordan Eberle scored a 5v5 goal against the Bruins top line of Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak.�This marked the first time all season that the top line has given up a goal at 5v5.�There are now +11 in those situations (12 goals for versus one against).
Friedman also provided a list of some of the top lines in hockey when it comes to 5v5 goal differential to have an idea of who good they have been:
Viktor Arvidsson, Filip Forsberg, Ryan Johansen (NSH) are 14-6; Josh Bailey, Anders Lee, John Tavares (NYI) are 22-19; Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek (PHI) are 23-11; Brayden Schenn, Jaden Schwartz, Vladimir Tarasenko (STL) are 17-4; Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele, Blake Wheeler (WPG) are 16-15; Nikita Kucherov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Steven Stamkos (TBL) are 25-14.
More proof that the Bruins top line is the driving force of their success this season!�
