The fact that his team eventually won the game in overtime didn’t completely wipe out a game’s worth of frustration at the officiating from Bruins coach Jim Montgomery.
Boston beat the Ottawa Senators despite having just one power play compared to six for the Senators.
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Montgomery was asked after the 3-2 victory whether his team had “dodged a bullet” in winning a game when their opponent had so many more power plays.
“I don’t think we dodged a bullet. I think we took about eight bullets,” he said. “They had six power plays, we had one. That is one-sided.”
The Bruins’ only power play lasted three seconds as Charlie Coyle won the offensive zone faceoff and drew the puck back to Charlie McAvoy. He slid it across the point to David Pastrnak, who one-timed a slapshot past Joonas Korpisalo for a 1-0 lead.
The Bruins then killed off four penalties, at least two came on calls of which Montgomery was visibly agitated about on the bench. Ottawa eventually found its rhythm and scored on the last two power plays, including one with 4:39 left in the third period to force overtime.
While Montgomery was displeased with the calls, he was pleased with how his team handled them.
“It was great by our group. Our penalty killers, some guys have to get a lot of ice time in those situations,” he said. “They battled through it. I liked the way we were able to get back to our five-on-five games.”
He said killing that many penalties impacted ice time, which is especially challenging on the second night of a back-to-back.
“It’s tough to get certain guys out if they don’t penalty kill,” he said. “That’s what happens when you have to kill that many penalties.”
David Pastrnak played just 17:46 well below his normal workload, while Matt Poitras played 8:07. On the flipside Hampus Lindholm played 35 shifts and 25:54 of ice time.
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