David Pastrnak congratulates Alex Ovechkin after the Capitals star breaks NHL goal record
In the COVID 19-shortened season of 2019-20, Ovechkin and Pastrnak each finished with 48 goals, thus sharing the Rocket Richard Trophy as the league's No. 1 goal scorer.
'For me,' Pastrnak said on the video, 'that was better than to win it alone.'
In good company
Pastrnak collected his 19th career hat trick, and also reached the 40-goal plateau for a fifth time, in Saturday's
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Pasta (40-54–94 this season) entered Sunday night's game in Buffalo with 388 career goals, ranking seventh on the club's all-time list, and within seven of
Ray Bourque
(395) at No. 6.
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Pastrnak's scoring rate (.517 goals per game) ranks third on the Bruins' all-time list, behind
Phil Esposito
(.734) and
Cam Neely
(.655). Rounding out the top five:
Rick Middleton
(.456) and
Ken Hodge
(.443.).
Johnny Bucyk
, the club's leading goal scorer (545), scored at a rate of .380 goals per game, ninth on the list.
Hit machine
Bruins defenseman
Nikita Zadorov
, a far more effective and impactful version of himself the last couple for months, rung up a game-high nine hits Saturday night … Hurricanes backliners
Jaccob Slavin
and
Brent Burns
both left the Garden with matching eyesore minus-5s for their night's troubles … Sabres center
Tage Thompson
, formerly of UConn, entered Sunday with 40 goals, bringing together two 40-goal scorers (see: Pastrnak) in a late-season matchup of clubs that won't be in the playoffs. Regrettably, that's a lot of firepower not to make it to the game's biggest stage. As of the 6:08 puck drop in Buffalo, only three NHLers had more goals this season: Edmonton's
Leon Draisaitl
(52), Toronto's William Nylander (44), and Ovechkin (41) ...
Fraser Minten
, acquired in the March 7 trade that sent
Brandon Carlo
to Toronto, made his
Brad Marchand
, with the Panthers for their Sunday matchup in Detroit, entered the game with a meager 0–1–1 line in five games since exiting the Hub of Hockey … The Bruins, with five games to go before summah vacation, take on the Devils Tuesday night at the Prudential Center, then play host to the the Blackhawks Thursday night at the Garden. As of Sunday morning, ex-Bruin
Ted Donato
was the Blackhawks' leading goal scorer (29) and was tied for the club high in points (59) with sophomore phenom
Connor Bedard
(now a career minus-83). Donato, about to turn 29, was wheeled out of Boston long ago for
Charlie Coyle
. He is on track to be an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
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