Golden Knights Trail the Bruins 1-0 After One Period in Boston — and the Back-to-Back Only Gets Harder From Here
Vegas opened its East Coast back-to-back at TD Garden on Monday night and went to the first intermission down a goal to a 10-4-1 Boston team that has made a habit of late comebacks. Forty minutes remain, and Pittsburgh waits tomorrow.
The Vegas Golden Knights trail the Boston Bruins 1-0 at the end of the first period at TD Garden on Monday night, according to the live game feed read by the desk. Boston scored the period's only goal midway through the frame — Jack Eichel had won the opening faceoff against Elias Lindholm, but the Bruins controlled the scoreboard first in a matchup of two of the league's early-season pace-setters: Boston entered 10-4-1, Vegas 9-5-1.
The Bruins arrived with momentum of a particular kind. On Saturday they rallied from a two-goal third-period deficit to beat Chicago in overtime — Mason Lohrei and Morgan Geekie scored late to force the extra period before Lindholm netted the winner — snapping a two-game losing streak. A team that finishes games like that is a poor opponent to chase, which is what the second and third periods now ask of Vegas.
The schedule gives the Knights no time to brood either way. Monday's game opens a back-to-back that continues Tuesday at Pittsburgh (4:00 p.m. Pacific), so whatever Boston takes out of Vegas tonight is spent again tomorrow. The final from TD Garden files in the next cycle; the first-period math is simple — one goal down, forty minutes to find the answer, and a plane ride waiting on the other side of it.
