Boston Bruins: 5 takeaways from annihilation of Arizona Coyotes

The Boston Bruins were victorious once again on Tuesday night and continued to light the lamp in a dominating fashion.

It seems like the Boston Bruins can’t be stopped. The team is looking great which is surprising since they are missing two very important players. It is definitely a pleasant sight to see.

Hopefully, Boston will be able to extend this 3 game win streak out for a while. The Atlantic Divison is the toughest in the entire NHL. Boston needs to keep racking up points and climbing up the standings.

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The Bruins have recovered from playing their worst hockey of the year rather well. They are skating hard and looking like the team we know and love.

Everyone seems to be running on all cylinders and management is making the right moves.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Gemel Smith. It may be because I had low expectations since he was signed off of waivers, but he has looked pretty good for a bottom line guy. He can lay the lumber and is a grinder.

Also, Ryan Donato is buzzing out there on the ice. He is dangling through anyone and has added some grittiness to his game. Donato isn’t afraid to fight for the puck and corners and looks like an all-around better player.

It’s really hard to be negative when the Bruins are looking this good without Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron. The future is bright in Boston.

So here are my 5 takeaways from the Bruins mauling of the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.

1. David Backes is one lucky guy

Tuesday night could have been a horrible one for David Backes, but luckily he is doing well.

Hockey is obviously a very dangerous sport, but some occurrences are one in a million. Bruins fans witnessed one of these on Tuesday night.

Taking a skate blade to the face is definitely not fun. Thankfully David Backes is okay and ended up returning to the game rather quickly.

This type of injuries are always scary. We saw what happened to Clint Malarchuk when he got a skate blade to the neck. The goalie almost died.

The fact that Backes returned so quickly shows just how tough hockey players are.

It didn’t matter how many goals or assists had on Tuesday night, we were all glad to see that he was okay and didn’t need any serious medical attention.

2. Danton Heinen is on fire

Danton Heinen has struggled to score this season, but lately, he has been playing great.

Prior to Saturday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Heinen only had 2 goals and 3 assists. In the last 3 games, Heinen has 2 goals and an assist.

Heinen had an amazing rookie season. He racked up 16 goals and 31 assists. For a relative no name that is impressive.

I like Heinen. I think he is a good skill player who will help the Bruins in the future. He adds some balance to the Bruins bottom lines. Heinen could easily be a 2nd line winger, but having him on the 3rd line makes the bottom lines a better scoring threat.

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Even though Heinen will most likely take a step back from last season I expect him to end the season with some decent numbers and help the Bruins out in the postseason.

3. Brad Marchand went off

Brad Marchand was an absolute beast on Tuesday night. The winger had his best game of the season so far.

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Marchand was a one-man wrecking crew. His scoring efforts propelled the Bruins to victory. Marchy scored 2 goals in two minutes to give Boston a 4-2 lead.

Even though Marchand is 2nd in goals for the Bruins he has struggled to get the puck in the net, He has been a much more unselfish player this season. So far he only has 10 goals (which is still pretty good), but he leads the team in assists with 22.

Hopefully, we will see more goal outbursts from Marchand. When he is doing good the team is usually winning.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how Marchand is getting points. As long as the Boston Bruins keep scoring, fans will be cheering his name and bragging about him to the rest of the NHL.

4. Pasta was slinging the sauce

David Pastrnak is having the season of his life so far for the Boston Bruins. Pastrnak is absolutely dominating opposing teams.

Now Pastrnak has been lighting the lamp at an epic rate. With his goal on Tuesday night, he now has 21 this season, but that wasn’t his best play of the game.

Pastrnak made an insane pass to Brad Marchand to set him up for a goal. It may have been the most beautiful slap pass these eyes have ever seen. It may have even been one of the easiest goals Marchand has ever scored.

I’m pretty confident that we will be seeing Pastrnak bring some hardware back to Boston. He is one of the top players in the NHL this season. If he keeps this up he definitely has a shot to win the Hart Trophy.

This is David Pastrnak’s season and he is proving to the NHL that he is one of the top young guys in the entire league.

5. Tuukka is looking great

It has taken some time for Tuukka Rask to settle in, but the goaltender is settling in and performing well.

Now when you see that Rask gave up 3 goals you are inclined to think that he had a bad game but that isn’t the case.

Rask stopped 30 shots which is an impressive number, but he can’t be blamed for a majority of the goals that were scored. The Coyotes had some puck luck and some bad bounces and deflections led to some goals being scored.

Thankfully for the Bruins and Rask, Boston’s offense was on fire.

The Bruins are heating up when the team needed to. They are stepping up in a big way without some great players. Imagine how good they will be when Patrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara return.

The Bruins get a nice break as their next game isn’t until Friday when the team heads to Pittsburgh to play the Penguins.