Chara embraces Horton/By S. Bradley
BOSTON — After going goal-less in his prior five games and admitting he hasn’t felt the same since returning from last June’s season-ending concussion, Bruins forward Nathan Horton erupted Monday night.
Horton scored twice and assisted on a third goal in a 6-2 rout of the New York Islanders.
Tuukka Rask earned his first win of the season in just his fourth start, while Tyler Seguin, Milan Lucic, Benoit Pouliot and David Krejci (empty-netter) also scored for Boston.
All of Horton’s points were the result of him driving to the net.
“I have been trying. I just think it kind of went my way tonight,” he said after the game. “It makes you feel good and I know I don’t want to just have one game, I want to keep getting better and keep having fun and keep doing that every night.”
Here’s my game story for NHL.com.
You can re-live the excitement of the Bruins’ third straight win with this photo gallery courtesy of Sharon Bradley Photography:
They already took out the upstart leafs. Next step will be the Oilers. Khabibulin is bound to cool off soon, let the suddenly hot B’s offense at them. They could have (should have?) had ten goals last night. Im looking for Marchand to finally put in some of his chances. 2 goals for the amount of looks hes had is unacceptable. Could have had a hat trick in the first game of the season for goodness sake.
George, I live in Edmonton and am getting pretty tired of all the fans here thinking the Oilers are the best team in the league. Lucic needs to get a nice clean hit on RNH and welcome him into Bear Country! Key will be slowing that young 1st line down. Although I think the B’s are going to show them what a real hockey team can do! Oilers have talent but are way too young to keep this pace up.
Can’t wait for Thursday’s game. The Oilers will be looking to make a statement, and they are playing pretty well from what I have read. A lot of young talent will be on full display.
I hear he’s got a broken beak. I don’t know but you guys are right that was sick to see. He was in a tough spot when you’re just far enough away to be vulnerable.
Nice to see Horton have a strong game. That was a sweet pass to Cheech. I like the way Milan is going hard to the net like he can.
Matt,
With Peverley recovering and Paille hurt any word on which P-B might get called up?
Yeah the Paille incident was hard to watch. Hopefully it caught enough of his visor to mitigate the damage. Quote of the night…Milbury interviewing Chara back when he was doing his draft interview with the Islanders and asking if he was tough…Chara: “you shouldn’t screw around with me”. Man that should be the Bruins new motto.
Great game from Horton, he needed that, as did Rask. Good to see Bergeron, Lucic, Krejci and Seguin continue to hit the score sheet. Corvo seems to have made the adjustment to the B’s zone-D.
Hope Paille isn’t seriously hurt, that looked brutal.