works in all the way to the wall. and the net here. >> ray: beecher hits the one post by himself. the chance for sam carrick, chips up over the glove of swayman. hits the cross bar. look at this play by zacha. he realizes he's in too tight. he finds geekie, and geekie's got the whole net. vincent trocheck is going to try and block it, but geekie just flubd flubbed it. it flipped off his stick. he's had a great month for the bruins after a slow start for the year coming off a career high 17 goals last year. geekie's got seven in the month of january, and would have liked to have started february with one there. >> mike: what do you think is allowed for that with geekie? >> ray: i think coming into the year thinking i've got to score,

i've got to score. he's not supposed to score 35 goals, at 17, why can't i get 25, pretty soon, you lose the way you were playing last year. now playing with david pastrnak lately doesn't hurt either. >> mike: no question about that. lindholm tried to sell through the slot. picked up there by pmarchand. marchand with it, turns away from fox. tried to center. away from zibanejad. took it away from peeke recovered for the bruins. borgen dusted off, moved it for lindgren with a shot, they score. brodzinski made the cut, got the tip, and it's back to a two-goal margin. 5-3 with nine plus minutes to go in the third. artemi panarin is exhausted at the end of a long shift. he entered the zone all by himself here. the rangers are changing. he's the only ranger in the

zone, but panarin stays on the puck. holds and and finds borgen brodzinski who's just come off the bench. ryan lindgren over swayman's shoulder, still nine minutes left, and now it's 5-3. >> mike: the end of a 53 second shift for artemi panarin, he makes the play. brodzinski just on to the ice makes it 5-3. this goes cross corner, borgen, pastrnak motors ahead, lindgren back for the rangers, and pastrnak could not get by him. pastrnak, below the goal line, nobody home for the bruins, and back out to center. >> ray: brodzinski back in the rangers lineup today, and he's on the board. >> mike: pastrnak centers, gets through to schneider. you mentioned the bruins allowed four goals in each of the last two periods. they have been outscored heavily

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offense goes through the hands of david pastrnak. he's had a spectacular afternoon in the first period. pastrnak does a terrific job on the fore-check. he's somehow alone and tucks it in. he's not going to get an assist. on the power play he goes across to marchand. that leads to a power play marker, and his second goal, he keeps the play alive. knocking reilly smith off the puck. he and pasta combine again. came in with a nine-game point streak, now ten. pastrnak has 13 goals in 2025. >> mike: impressive enough with a ten-game point streak. you saw the 22 points over that stretch as well for pasta. fox carries in for the rangers. off the back post. >> ray: that's a second time he's shot one from a sharp angle. swayman was not set and boy did

he get lucky. >> mike: he pivoted and hung his head as we he went to the bench. you spotted it earlier when he did it at the other end of the ice. >> ray: by the goal line. there's no angle or virtually tno angle. that bounced off swayman, and this was directly off the post. >> mike: inside of eight minutes to go. charlie coyle, got to it along the wall. tried to nudge it out for lindholm. instead, lindgren back for j.t. miller. to panarin. rink wide on a delivery for ryan lindgren. he will fling it around. j.t. miller on the receiving end. stripped of the puck, lindholm fighting for it. couldn't exit the zone. coyle does, bumped up ahead, marchand bearing down, but shesterkin comes out to miller, in across the logo, got it wide for zibanejad.

bounces down, past j.t. miller. toward neutral ice, and vaakanainen swung it along for the rangers who will change. they trail by two. will cuylle. tried to drop it off for brodzinski who had a anifty tip on that goal for the told you earlier, only team in the nhl without a multi-goal comeback win. only six and a half minutes left to do it. off a stick, bounces off the glass up high, and careened down by carlo. down by k'andre miller and ricochets off beecher and cuylle back on it for new york. chipped ahead. kreider had the touch up and the bruins back with it. >> ray: phil houseley was talking about the rangers defending earlier, and said you got to communicate better. the bruins are going to have to communicate here. i think you'll see the rangers

defense jumping up here in the last six minutes. no use saving it. you need two. so if you have a chance, they will get up and play. the bruins have to talk. make sure they're picked up. >> mike: can they withstand it, you know it's coming from new york. lindgren jumping forward on cue. that will ricochet up and out of play. 5:40 to go in the third. bruins up by two on the rangers. all right trainees, let's say glen is a customer. i'm a customer in this scenario. what do we do? protect what's important to him! how do we do this? we help with car, home, boat, rv coverage! great! apply coverages! because you never know what life is gonna surprise you with at 90 miles per hour. did coach say 90? push him out there. you've got this, glen! am i gonna feel this? [slapping puck] —i felt that. —is he okay? for savings and service get more with geico. -ah. -he's moving! icy hot. ice works fast. ♪

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>> oldest college basketball team is also one of the best. kon tnueppel, welcoming north carolina at 6:30 eastern time. coming up this week across the nhl, tuesday, espn+ and hulu, a double header that starts at 8:00 eastern. edmonton in st. louis. the stars made the move for kyle granlin, wednesday, tnt and max, brewers, rangers, and again, oilers and black hawks. kenny albert stopped by on the break. will have the call on wednesday. bruins lead 5-3, with 5:30 to go here in the third. see the records for both of these teams. currently on the outside looking in. and the wild card picture. stretched pass for j.t. miller. maneuver in slam on the brakes at the half wall.

works it back for k'andre miller. a shot goes wide from fox on a puck retrieval, it's j.t. miller. now k'andre miller for fox. back to k'andre miller along the line. banks it down for j.t. miller. tucks back for fox. speeding in. fox, behind the goal was looking for j.t. miller. our final five minutes are brought to you by hotels.com. here is panarin, with a little bit of space. seen past for fox. fox to zibanejad. tried to go short side, and it pops out of the zone. >> ray: k'andre miller and adam fox were out there together, and they were both recovers on that chip. basically all over the ice. bruins gave it away, and trocheck was stopped by swayman, trying to locate it.

trocheck's best chance of the afternoon as this puck hits off the stantion, on the ice. over the left shoulder of the swayman who has to shrug up the shoulder to make the stop. >> mike: and he did. 4:30 to go. as we hit an even 4:30 remaining and a two-goal game. bounced out for carlo, under some pressure from lafreniere. who steps to it, circles out high. chipped for lindgren. lindgren off a redirect from borgen. swayman covers. >> ray: there's that communication again. somebody's got to find where the defensemen are. will borgen, all of a sudden he's 4 feet from the net. you think the defenseman is going to stay out high and as lindgren rolls down into the

circle, there's borgen right in the bumper spot, that's a good save with reilly smith on the doorstep. borgen acquired in a trade from seattle, a five-year extension. they have really liked what he has been able bring, and they jumped at it and signed him quickly. >> mike: after four years with the kraken, part of the deal from kaapo kakko. back to schneider, ushered on for vaakanainen. steered on for schneider, pressured by beecher and this deflects up and into the seats. >> ray: one of the things that happens, mike, when you start getting pressured like this, if you're boston r, you don't make plays, you get the puck and clear it to center. they get the puck, the rangers and change it back into the zone. hard to be composed. what the bruins need here is a couple of short little completed passes, so they can exit the zone with possession.

and make the rangers have to go all the way back down the ice to regather the puck. right now, it's too easy for them to turn around and hem the bruins in the zone. >> ray: joe sacco tossed the zacha center line over the boards. >> mike: and a face-off controlled, to pastrnak and short passes, nonetheless, they get it out quickly. lafreniere. stick handled through center on the entry with reilly smith. feeds it back in the direction of lafreniere who meets with zadorov. zacha tried to work it up the wall. back to the corner. lafreniere reaching for it with smith. zadorov turns away from trouble, and he will catapult this one the length of the ice and an icing whistle. five goals for the bruins in this one. for the rangers, their 17th game

allowing five or more. the most in the nhl, and you see for shesterkin, eight games allowing five plus as he goes to the bench. >> ray: they'll pull the goaltender with three minutes and 30 seconds left. trocheck will take the draw, one of the best in the league, again, we mentioned a few times today, but it's kind of shocking to see those numbers hung on shesterkin. he's so good. and a lot of that is the rangers just give too much up in the middle of the ice, and they have been burned today. >> mike: for pastrnak moving in. he scores. a hat trick for pastrnak.

18th career hat trick for david pastrnak. the first this year. 27 goals on the season now for pastrnak. and we'll get a look at his afternoon in the first period, makes a terrific play behind the net. pastrnak deposits it. igor shesterkin, this one he knocks reilly smith off the puck, and then rocket. this one, geekie has probably got a chance at the empty net. he know he know pasta has two. he's on the outside, pastrnak says thank you very much as geekie slides the puck over and pastrnak puts this one three-goal bruins lead. >> mike: you mentioned his 18th in his career, second most in

bruins history behind only phil esposito who had 26 of them. >> ray: those ones were a little more stationary. big phil would park out in front, and somebody would sweep him the puck, usually cashman or ken hodge, and boom, it's in the net. >> mike: hats still coming on the ice. morgan geekie grabbed another one. red sox hat. >> ray: i'm not putting it on my head, but it's a nice hat. >> mike: certainly not you. 3:22 to go. and the bruins lead it 14 goals, the last 14 games for david pastrnak since the turn of the calendar. behind the net, good stick there from coyle, works that out of the zone. the bruins moving forward, how do you size up where they are, and how they're playing right now on february 1st.

>> ray: it's hard to tell, right? like you're looking at a team that's had some real struggles on the road. they have been excellent here in boston, short of their loss on a couple of days ago to winnipeg. i mean, they were 10-1-1 come ent ing into that game. when they get to the break here, the real decision will be in boston, and it will be above joe sacco. are they going to retool or are they going to go for it a little bit more this year? they do not have a lot of draft capital to trade. they do not have a lot of prospects. it would be a real thin needle hole to thread for the bruins. i think they can make it, but man, they cannot have the inconsistencies they have had on the road. that's really ham strung them this year. >> mike: face-off to the left of swayman. the bruins have a 16% playoff probability.

that's it. espn bet puts the implied probability at 42%. we have showed you the standings throughout the day and now evening on the outside looking in, like the rangers in the wild card picture in the eastern conference. here's a shot high, flung wide by panarin. >> ray: a three-game win streak, a three-game lose streak with all those teams clumped up together, it just really makes you realize the pressure of it all. fox and marchand are going to go here. >> mike: barking at each other, and fox was tangled with marchand who had dropped one glove. miller denied, miller denied a second time. while all of that was going on with marchand and adam >> ray: i thought they were going to go here. >> mike: i thought so too. they're nose to nose for about five or second seconds. so that's what marchand doesn't like is fox flips him over.

and marchand's got the cross check in the left glove is ready to go. fox is not going to go with them. and these two will renew acquaintances in a couple of days in new york in the four nations as well. >> mike: that is wednesday at madison square garden with only 1:49 remaining. bruins ahead by three. face-off won by shot it wide. zadorov, moves it along to coyle, he will bank this one out. and down to rangers ice. bruins will wrap up their three-game home stand on tuesday. we showed you that when minnesota is here in town. rangers meanwhile in the first day of a back-to-back. back home tomorrow in the evening at msg to host

>> ray: vegas just signed brandon sod after his contract was terminated in st. louis. vegas looking for a little bit of help. that's a really good team. they've have a tough go of it lately too. >> mike: the golden knights looking to add. final minute of regulation. against kreider, in behind, and now brazeau has this one go over the mitt of beecher. schneider collects, turns away from frederic, inside of 45 ticks remaining. went, here is brodzinski. pulls up. turns away from oliver wahlstrom. cuylle up the wall will shuttle one along to the right point. lindgren had it blocked by koepke. a shield for the bruins, final 20 seconds, k slides it along f wahlstrom on the rush, tied up

there by vaakanainen. last few seconds with zadorov shot high and wide, no angle shot for koepke and that will do it at td garden. the bruins tie a season high with six goals, and they beat the rangers 6-3 on home ice today. >> ray: a couple of power play goals for the bruins. offset two goals from j.t. miller, and his rangers return. but a really solid boston bruins home game here as they carried much of the second period on the way to the 6-3 win. >> mike: they make a winner out of jeremy swayman and the bruins get the dub here in the hub. they started the day one point behind the lightning for that second wild card spot.

fifth by points percentage. a hat trick for david pastrnak who gets to visit with emily. >> since the start of january, you have been on absolute fire. do you feel like anything in your game has changed? >> yeah, i mean, you know, all around at the line, we have been playing some good hockey, and last couple of weeks, and so that obviously helps, and you know, personally, i have been feeling great. in the last month, so it's been good. >> emily: with a performance like this, you guys started outside of the playoff picture. how confident are you that you guys can make a run? >> you know, we have to take it game by game. the position and standings are very tight. every single game matters. we can't look too far ahead. we know where we are in the standings and we know how important is every game. you know what, we just have to get every point we can. >> emily: you mentioned your line earlier, matthew poitras, you have some chemistry. what do you like about playing

with him? >> for a player of his size, he's unbelievable and strong on the puck. with him, you know. >> mike: i hat trick. our entire excellent crew behind the scenes, mika zibanejad saying thanks for joining us. coming up next, abc world news, for you, we get you back to the studio with steve. mike, thanks, we'll take it from here. you can hear the dirty water playing in the background in boston after the bruins win. with mark kastelic, and p.k. subban. that was a really impressive effort by the bruins today. >> bruins did exactly what they needed to do. after that loss to winnipeg, which i watched as the game went on, you could see winnipeg pulled away from them. they had to have a big start today. they did and their big guy showed up. pasta, three goals, zacha,

coyle, mcavoy, we talked about offense. this is a big game today and a big win for the bruins. >> i thought the bruins played with a purpose from the get-go. pastrnak was awesome tonight. he was hard on the puck. physical, taking the body all over the ice. the bruins, as a team came up with a lot of purpose as i mentioned and finishing their checks all over the ice. got great contributions from the defense. you had talked about. and of course swayman is a guy that can match up against shesterkin, overall, i thought the bruins were a better team tonight, and led by pastrnak, who played just an amazing game today. >> he got off to a terrible start on the season, pasta, since january. >> sometimes when they say it's a horrible start, from a goal scorer's perspective, the puck is not going in the net. sometimes it doesn't go in the net for you, and you can be playing well, and doing other things. obviously they're counting on them to score, and he's got off to a great start in the second

half here, what a hockey player. >> and i think some of the players on the rangers could take a page. this is a team struggled to get goals offensively. very patient. a lot of guys interchanging throughout this team over the past couple of years. this guy has been a mainstay for the team, he's been consistent. he's performed. produced and more importantly, not just the goals, it's when you score. this was a big game today. and he stepped up. for both teams, and he stepped up in a big way. >> let's talk about the other team in the game today. give the rangers credit for this. they hung around in the third period and played hard in the third and made it a competitive game. they could have faded away. couldn't overcome the first two periods today. >> i thought the rangers beat themselves today. i thought they made mistakes they can't make. especially this time of year in the position they're at. they did climb out of a hole they left themselves in for a month and a half. i thought j.t. miller brought an intensity we haven't seen in a

ranger play for a long time. >> rub off on the rest of the team there, he played a hard game, and when you think about all the things, travel and all that, he can and can't make a big deal. he came to play tonight. you can see the confidence he plays with. to 0 foot player. heavy on the puck, and they're going to need players like that. more importantly for me, the intensity that he played with today is going to rub off on the rest of the players. it was noticeable for him compared to the rest of the team. in my opinion. >> when you look at it, in these types of games, your best and greatest players have to show up. if you don't show up on the stat sheet, we got to see you out there. there's a lot of guys for the rangers whether they were on the ice or not, we didn't notice them. >> i would like to have seen the fourth line a little bit more. >> 100%. 100%. some of that is with coaching and how you manage the players. another part of it, they need to come out and leave it on the ice. i'm with you. you hope that j.t. miller, the intensity and energy that he

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