Bruins-Ducks takeaways: Matthew Poitras’s early maturity and more
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The odds right now favor Poitras staying in Boston for the remainder of his rookie season.
The Boston Bruins looked like a team playing their second game in as many nights.
The young Anaheim Ducks also encountered some fatigue and broken plays usually associated with the latter half of a back-to-back.
Both teams looked for inspiration to get them out of a rut entering the third period of a 0-0 game. The Ducks turned to one of their young guns to deliver the opening tally as Mason McTavish outworked Hampus Lindholm on a Linus Ullmark rebound at 5:05 of the final stanza.
Coming off firing a mere three shots in the middle 20, the Bruins appeared primed for their first loss of the season. But then Matthew Poitras broke through on the scoresheet, scoring his first NHL goal to even things up at 1-1 just 1:14 after McTavish’s tally.