DO OR DIE.
Just the facts
When: Tonight, 7 PM
Where: Amerant Bank Arena – Sunrise, FL
How to follow: ESPN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
Opposing perspective: Litter Box Cats
Know your enemy
- 7-2, lead the series 3-1
- Aleksandr Barkov: 5G-8A-13PTS; Matthew Tkachuk: 4G-9A-13PTS; Carter Verhaeghe: 6G-4A-10PTS
- Sergei Bobrovsky: 7-2-0, 2.55 GAA, .892 save percentage
Game notes
- We’re on the brink, folks! It’s “win or go home” time for the Bruins after two consecutive losses on home ice. Well technically the Bruins will be going home after the game either way, it’s just a case of whether or not Florida is traveling with them. Semantics.
- Per Don Sweeney, Brad Marchand will travel with the team to Florida. He skated on Monday morning and is officially termed day-to-do, but my guess would be that he’s not available for this one.
- The Bruins recalled Patrick Brown from Providence on Monday, seeking to invoke the “Bruins haven’t lost in this series with him in the lineup” good vibes.
- I have to imagine Jim Montgomery is going to go down swinging with Jeremy Swayman at this point, but you couldn’t fault him for considering making a switch. Swayman certainly wasn’t bad in Game 4 (though the first goal was soft), but has also lost three games in a row, so…who knows.
- For so long this regular season, Charlie Coyle and Pavel Zacha rose to the occasion and filled in admirably in their new, higher-up-in-the-lineup roles. In the playoffs? Not so much. Zacha hasn’t scored at all and Coyle has just one goal, coming in the blowout loss in Game 3.
- Sergei Bobrovsky remains sub-.900 in these playoffs. Please, just shoot the puck. Just get the puck on net.
See you on the other side, folks!