It looked as if it would be all peace, love, and penalty kills for the Bruins on Thursday.
But the Kings stole two points from Causeway Street, and the Bruins were left gritting their teeth.
The third straight shootout at the Garden opened with four straight goals (Charlie Coyle and Jake DeBrusk for Boston, Alex Iafallo and Adrian Kempe for Los Angeles), and ended when the 14th shooter, Trevor Moore, beat Linus Ullmark for a 3-2 win.
“I sensed frustration,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “Our first period was OK, our second period started off really well … when we got up, 2-0, we got away from things that were giving us success.”
Two third-period strikes by Kempe erased that Bruins lead. The Kings, better than their record (16-12-5) according to Montgomery, used a 1-3-1 to gum up the Bruins’ speed through the neutral zone. After going up, 2-0, the Bruins lost their aggressive forecheck and stiffness in holding their own line. The flow was impacted by six power plays on either side.
“It happens,” Montgomery said. “Sports is frustrating, especially when you have as many elite players as we do, that expect themselves to produce and impact the game every shift.”
David Krejci, when asked about the root of the frustration: “I don’t want to talk about it.”
The Bruins had a chance to win it when Marchand — who was not among those feeling the love — took a cross-check in the back from Drew Doughty with 40 seconds left in regulation. A sloppy, listless, shotless power play (zero shots) had the locals voicing their displeasure.
“Nothing worked,” Marchand said. “We weren’t on the same page.”
Marchand, who spent six minutes in the box and drew two penalties, got in an angry wrestling match with Philip Danault with 1:25 left in OT, taking exception to the Kings center pushing his head into the ice.
“We expected to be a little bit better,” said Marchand, wearing a small cut next to his left eye. “There were some tough calls — or tough missed calls — that might have shook us a little bit.”
At 8:29 of the third, after a Kevin Fiala shot from the wing rattled off Ullmark and hopped over the stick of Charlie McAvoy, Kempe jammed it home to make it 2-1.
The goal shook the Bruins out of their early-third-period doldrums. They drew two penalties, first when Sean Durzi tripped Marchand at 9:49. Tomas Nosek drew a hook against Moore at 13:17. Kings netminder Pheonix Copley (33 saves) made a killer stop on a David Pastrnak one-timer, pushing from left to right, and held the fort.
Boston lost the lead when Connor Clifton cross-checked Danault with 3:27 left, and Brandon Carlo tripped Fiala seven seconds into the penalty. Fiala’s one-timer goal at 17:50 tied the score at 2.
Ullmark (28 saves) was strong once again. One of his best stops came in the third period, a glove denial of an Anze Kopitar break-in from the wing.
The Bruins, now 15-0-1 when leading after two periods and 15-0-2 at home, were in position to put a 16 in each of those win columns.
They led after second-period goals from Taylor Hall and Marchand.
After a scoreless first that saw Hall and Patrice Bergeron go on unsuccessful breakaways, Hall broke through at 7:53 of the second. The Bruins drew a penalty after the physical in-zone work of the line of Coyle, Trent Frederic and Hall. On the delayed call, Hall walked to the top of the circle and ripped a blocker-side snapshot past netminder Copley.
Hall, who scored his 12th, has six goals and four assists in his last eight games. He is on track for his eighth 20-goal season. The only time he has scored 30 was when he went off for 39-54—93 with New Jersey in his MVP year of 2018.
Three minutes after that, Blake Lizotte was sent off for holding the stick. The Bruins made quick work of the Kings’ penalty kill. Pastrnak sped into the zone and hit Marchand in the slot. Marchand took the puck wide, above the off-wing (right) dot, and sent a laser beam past Copley’s glove. Pastrnak, escaping behind the net, ducked as if the puck was heading for his melon.
Marchand showed his frustration early, however, taking a pair of penalties in the second. He gave Danault an extra cross-check after he was called for interfering with him. He was barking at official Justin Kea, a linesman holding him back, after the second-year official whistled him for holding Fiala during a puck battle.
Both penalty kills were 5 for 6, the Bruins leaning heavily on Derek Forbort (6:18), Carlo (5:25), Coyle (5:20), and Nosek (4:59). Regular PKers Bergeron, Marchand, DeBrusk, McAvoy, and Hampus Lindholm all logged heavy time on the power play.
“Even if we win that in a shootout,” Hall said, “there’s lots to correct … We didn’t have our ‘A’ game, and when that happens, we have so many players that want ice time and want to make plays out there, it can be frustrating. As a team you’re not playing as well as you can. That’s where the frustration comes in.”
Matt Porter can be reached at matthew.porter@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter: @mattyports.
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