Bruins
“If I see him for a one-timer, it’s gonna be a bullet.”
Nikita Zadorov might have said it best on Saturday night.
“Hockey gods were on Geeks’ side today,” the Bruins’ blueliner noted.
A little over 10 minutes after Morgan Geekie’s tie-breaking tally was taken off the board due to an offside review, the Bruins’ winger would not be denied.
After David Pastrnak took Geekie’s initial goal off the board by gliding over the blue line too soon, he saw an opportunity to rectify his mistake.
In the waning seconds of a power play, Pastrnak gathered a feed from Mason Lohrei and looked to pass from the half-wall. Rather than feed the puck over to a Charlie Coyle in the low slot, Pastrnak lofted a pass over a lurking Geekie further up the frozen sheet.
Geekie’s attempt may have been a bit outside of Grade-A ice, but Pastrnak wasn’t going to overthink things.
“Yeah, my eyes were all on Geeks,” Pastrnak said.
Geekie’s one-timer attempt was on target, sailing past Buffalo netminder James Reimer with 1:45 left on the clock to lift Boston past the Sabres at TD Garden.
Saturday’s eventual 3-1 win over a Buffalo team now in the midst of a 13-game losing streak won’t make many year-end highlight reels.
But in a disjointed game where Boston’s sluggish skating legs allowed a woeful Sabres roster to hang around, Geekie’s play stood out as one positive worth harping on.
The hockey gods might have been on Geekie’s side in the third period, but lighting the lamp has not exactly been an outlier for the 26-year-old forward as of late.
Following Saturday’s win, Geekie has now scored five goals (and seven points) in his last eight games — giving a top line featuring Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha a much-needed scoring boost.
“I think he’s obviously…