The Boston Bruins kept their home record so far this season unblemished on Thursday night, as Jake Debrusk scored a game winning third period powerplay goal and David Krejci had a pair of markers as part of a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers at TD Garden.
Boston opened the scoring on a beautiful play setup by Hampus Lindholm and Nick Foligno. Lindholm split two Philadelphia defenseman at the Flyers blue line and got the puck to Foligno, who circled in behind the net and threw a pass out front to a wide open Tomas Nosek who tapped it into the net at 11:25 of the second period. The game winner by Debrusk came at 7:32 of the third with the extra man. David Pastrnak took a feed from Charlie McAvoy on the left wing, and sent a slap pass to Debrusk on the door step as he slid it in behind Philadelphia goalie Carter Hart. Owen Tippett cut it to 2-1 for the Flyers with a powerplay goal at 9:48, but the Bruins immediately answered that 16 seconds later on the first Krejci tally. Krejci finished off the scoring on a powerplay at 16:21, as Boston improves to 10-0-0 on home ice this season.
Pavel Zacha and Foligno each had two assists in the win, and Linus Ullmark made 22 saves in net for Boston (15-2-0). Hart made 28 stops in the defeat for Philadelphia, as the Flyers drop to 7-7-3. The Bruins, winners of five straight overall, will play host to the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night at 7 p.m.
