Leaning towards the franchise’s historic identification, the Boston Bruins strengthened their blue line in the course of the offseason by signing 6-foot-6, 248-pound defenseman Nikita Zadorov.
Zadorov introduced a snarl to the Bruins’ matchup towards the Stars when he dropped the gloves with Jamie Benn throughout Dallas’ 7-2 shellacking of Boston on Thursday evening.
Benn hit Brandon Carlo from behind within the Bruins’ defensive zone. Zadorov instantly jumped to his teammate’s protection, pummeling the Stars’ captain as Carlo was crumpled on the ice on all fours whereas the trainers attended to him. It was only a pure response for Zadorov.
“Whereas my teammate’s laying on the bottom, I believe that’s response,” Zadorov instructed reporters in Dallas.
Zadorov completed the sport within the Bruins’ locker room after being referred to as for slashing and misconduct with 2:31 remaining in regulation. He was a minus-2 with two hits throughout 19:24 minutes of ice time.
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The Bruins fell to the Stars after an exhilarating come-from-behind win towards the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday evening. Boston has had a tough time stringing collectively a number of wins this season.
“We’ve taken a step ahead and brought a step backward,” Zadorov mentioned. “It’s arduous to win on this league. There’s good groups; they’re going to place you in your heels, you’ve acquired to cope with stress.”
Zadorov added: “I imply, we’re 4-2-1 within the final seven, proper? We had been 4-1-1 within the final six coming into this sport. We had comeback in St. Louis. I assumed we did loads of good things in St. Louis. Immediately, we had been simply, we weren’t there. Our effort wasn’t there. Laborious to play towards, wasn’t there. In order that price us the sport.”
The Bruins will look to bounce again and get again into the win column after they host the Blues in a matinee matchup on Saturday. Puck drop from TD Backyard is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET.
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