One game at a time.
Just the facts
When: Tonight, 7 PM
Where: TD Garden — Boston, Mass.
How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
Opposing perspective: PPP Leafs
Know your enemy
- 35-20-2, 72PTS, 1st in Atlantic Division
- Mitch Marner: 16G-55A-71PTS; William Nylander: 33G-25A-58PTS; John Tavares: 22G-26A-48PTS
- Joseph Woll: 20-11-0, 2.63 GAA, .910 save percentage; Anthony Stolarz: 11-5-2, 2.13 GAA, .928 save percentage
Game notes
- The Boston Bruins look to get on track as they face the Toronto Maple Leafs at the TD Garden tonight.
- “We need to embrace the situation we are in right now, playing meaningful games right now,” Interim head coach Joe Sacco said after yesterday’s practice on the standings and this being a divisional game.
- This is the last meeting between the Bruins and Maple Leafs this season. So far, the Bruins are 1-2-0 against them (4-3 OT win on Oct. 26, 2024, 4-0 loss on Nov. 5, 2024 and 6-4 loss on Jan. 4). That 4-0 loss came as Toronto was able to score three power-play goals.
- Head-to-head against each other this season, Toronto went 3 for 12 on the power play. The Bruins are 1 for 13 scoring against the Leafs on the power play. Marner has 10 points against the Bruins while Matthew Knies has 8 against them in those three games. Both had five-point nights in the last meeting.
- The Maple Leafs come to Boston on a two-game winning streak since the break, defeating the Carolina Hurricanes and Chicago Blackhawks.
- For the Leafs, Auston Matthews has seven points with one goal and six assists in his last five games. William Nylander has three goals in that time.
- Only picking up a point in their 3-2 overtime loss to the Anaheim Ducks, the Bruins remain one point out of a playoff spot. Toronto, on the other hand, sits at the top of the Atlantic Division, one point ahead of the Florida Panthers.
- David Pastrnak will look to extend his point streak to 15 games. If he does, he’ll join Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr and Ken Linseman as players who have hit at least a 15-game point streak in their career — an accomplishment made by only 10 different Bruins in the organization’s history. After that only eight different Bruins have reached 16 or more game point streaks.
- As far as league-point leaders, two points separate Marner (71 pts) and Pastrnak (69).
- Injury update: Still no Charlie McAvoy. With Hampus Lindholm out likely for the remainder of the season, Sacco said yesterday that it’s up to the rest of the group to step up and take on “a little bit more.”
- See ya tonight!