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The Boston Bruins lost 5-2 at home to the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday, and they stand at 13-5-1 with 27 points from 19 games. Thursday's loss followed two Boston wins. The Bruins beat the Florida Panthers 4-1 at home on Sunday. Boston won 6-2 at Pittsburgh on Thursday 5 November. James Hagens, a centre, is on injured reserve with a back injury and is expected to miss multiple weeks, according to head coach Marco Sturm. David Pastrnak leads the team with 8 goals, and Elias Lindholm has 7. Morgan Geekie and JJ Peterka have 5 goals each. The Minnesota Wild visit TD Garden on Saturday at 7 pm ET. One home defeat does not dent a start this strong, but the open question is who plays down the middle while Hagens is out.
Boston's winning run reached four games on Sunday, when the Bruins beat Florida 4-1 at TD Garden. Before that came a 5-4 overtime win over Chicago on 31 Oct, a 3-2 shootout win over Vegas on 2 Nov and a 6-2 win at Pittsburgh on 5 Nov. The record is 13-4-1 from 18 games, worth 27 points. The cost came at centre, where James Hagens is on injured reserve with a back injury, and head coach Marco Sturm has said he is expected to miss multiple weeks. The Bruins now turn to Thursday 12 Nov, when Montreal visits TD Garden at 7:00 pm ET, and the test is how the lineup covers for that missing centre while the run is still going.
Boston beat Florida 4-1 at TD Garden on Sunday for a fourth straight win, with Montreal due at TD Garden on Thursday 12 November at 7:00 PM ET. The Bruins are 13-4-1, with 27 points from 18 games. David Pastrnak leads the way with 8 goals and 16 assists, Elias Lindholm has 7 goals and 8 assists, and Pavel Zacha, Morgan Geekie and JJ Peterka each have 5 goals and 9 assists. Centre James Hagens is on injured reserve with a back injury, and head coach Marco Sturm announced that he is expected to miss multiple weeks. The wins before Sunday came 6-2 at Pittsburgh on Thursday, 3-2 in a shootout against Vegas on 2 November and 5-4 in overtime against Chicago on 31 October.
Boston keeps finding ways to win. The Bruins beat Pittsburgh 6-2 on the road on Thursday, their third straight win, after a 3-2 shootout win over Vegas and a 5-4 overtime win over Chicago. The record is 12-4-1, good for 25 points from 17 games. The tactical read is that two of those three wins needed extra time, so the margin has been thin until Pittsburgh. David Pastrnak leads the scoring list with eight goals and 14 assists. James Hagens is on injured reserve and Matthew Poitras is day-to-day. Next up is Florida at TD Garden on Sunday, a 1 p.m. ET start, which gives Boston home ice for the matinee. The Bruins will want to carry the Pittsburgh scoring forward and keep the late-game habits that carried them earlier in the run.
Boston have won three straight and do not play again until Sunday. The Florida Panthers visit TD Garden on Sunday 8 November at 1:00 pm ET. The latest win came on Thursday, 6-2 at Pittsburgh. It was the first of the three settled in regulation. Monday brought a 3-2 shootout win over Vegas, and Saturday 31 October a 5-4 overtime win over Chicago, both at home. Boston are 12-4-1, with 25 points from 17 games. David Pastrnak leads the scoring with 8 goals and 14 assists. The support is wide. Elias Lindholm, Morgan Geekie and JJ Peterka have all contributed steadily behind him. Two names are uncertain for Sunday. Matthew Poitras and James Hagens are both listed day-to-day, which could change the deployment of the depth group. Two days off before Florida help with that workload.
David Pastrnak's shootout winner two days ago sealed the 3-2 home win over Vegas Golden Knights. On balance, Pittsburgh wins Thursday.
That call needs context. The Penguins sit at 5-8-2 with a negative goal differential, and Evgeni Malkin is out. Those are real advantages for Boston. But Marco Sturm's group has surrendered 10 goals across three games, and per MassLive, Sturm publicly called out Charlie McAvoy's lack of poise in the second period Monday — a signal that the defensive structure is not where the staff wants it. A road trip to PPG Paints Arena, on the third game of a four-day window, is a punishing place to fix that.
Pittsburgh's injury list runs deep on the blue line — Ryan Graves, Trevor van Riemsdyk, and Bryan Rust are all on injured reserve. That shapes how their forwards get to the net. Watch Boston's penalty kill in the first period: if the Penguins convert an early power play, the bench depth question becomes urgent fast.
Pavel Zacha's equaliser kept Boston level through the second period Tuesday, but Sebastian Aho's goal midway through the third settled it — a 1-2 away loss to Carolina Hurricanes that snapped an eight-game points streak, per MassLive Sports. That streak is the number to carry into Thursday: St. Louis sits at 11 points from 12 games, with a goal differential of -2, and Torey Krug remains on long-term injured reserve with an ankle injury that depletes the Blues' back end.
On balance, Boston win at Enterprise Center Thursday night.
The decision side of tonight's game is cleaner than last game's result suggests. David Pastrnak leads Boston's scorers at 18 points, Elias Lindholm sits at 11 and had an assist on Zacha's goal Tuesday. St. Louis concedes more than it scores — 37 against, 35 for. Boston's top scorers are generating; the Blues' defensive corps is short-handed. That equation favours the road side.
One note off the ice: per MassLive Sports and NHL.com, Jeremy Jacobs has stepped down as Bruins governor after 51 years, with son Charlie Jacobs assuming the position. Who runs the organisation is a structural decision. Accountability for the product on the ice moves with the title.
Eight points in a row. Carolina, on the road, is the toughest test of that streak.
The Bruins travel to Lenovo Center tonight carrying a 9-2-1 record and 19 points from 12 games. On balance, The Playbook expects a close game — Carolina win narrowly, ending Boston's points streak at eight. The Hurricanes sit at 20 points from 13 games, record 9-2-2, with a goal differential of +18 — a side that has conceded just 33 goals all season. Boston scored 14 goals across the last three games, but six of those came against Nashville and four against San Jose; Dallas, the only comparable opponent in that window, held Boston to two.
Saturday's 6-4 home win over San Jose Sharks extended the points streak, per ESPN, with David Pastrnak and James Hagens scoring 40 seconds apart in the third — Pastrnak now sits at 7 goals and 17 points on the season, and the rookie Hagens is drawing notice. Carolina, meanwhile, will be without Jordan Staal (injured reserve) and Mark Jankowski (lower body, out Tuesday, per Ryan Henkel of The Hockey News), leaving gaps at center. Whether Marco Sturm's group can exploit that shorthanded depth up the middle — and whether Elias Lindholm's six assists this season translate on the road — is the shift to watch.
Boston scored four goals in the third period alone to turn the 6-4 home win over San Jose Sharks, per ESPN — and on balance, Carolina wins Tuesday at Lenovo Center. Boston has outscored opponents 14-7 across their last three games, but the Hurricanes carry a goal differential of +18 through 13 games, and Lenovo Center removes Boston's last-change advantage entirely. Marco Sturm's lineup will need a sharper deployment read on the road. Casey Mittelstadt led Boston's scorers Saturday with a two-point night; David Pastrnak sits at 17 points on the season and remains the matchup Carolina must account for. The eight-game points streak is real, but the 2-3 overtime loss in Dallas five days ago showed what a structured road team can extract from this group when the third-period workload climbs. Watch where Boston's defensive pairings start their shifts — offensive-zone draws would signal Sturm has a specific response to Carolina's forecheck; anything else suggests he is managing the three-games-in-four-days window over the individual matchup.
Marat Khusnutdinov has a three-year, $11.85 million extension, per NHL.com. That is the roster news coming out of Tuesday's 2-3 away loss to Dallas Stars — and it lands while the Bruins still have the sting of that overtime defeat. Boston win tonight at TD Garden over Nashville.
The Dallas game turned on a Pavel Zacha slashing call. Per Stanley Cup of Chowder, Mikko Rantanen finished his hat trick on the power play 3:52 into overtime — roughly 30 seconds from a successful PK. Matthew Poitras scored Boston's lone goal in that game; Nikita Zadorov had the only assist. Not the finish the road trip deserved after back-to-back regulation wins over Anaheim and Los Angeles.
Nashville arrives at TD Garden with a 3-2-3 record, a goal differential of -1 across eight games played, and 9 points. David Pastrnak's 12 points this season — four goals, eight assists — is the deployment question for Marco Sturm: whether Pastrnak draws a matchup Nashville can contain.
Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves in the 4-1 away win over Los Angeles Kings. Boston win tonight at American Airlines Center.
That is the call, placed early: a five-game road win streak against a Dallas side missing Matt Duchene and Oskar Back at center — both on injured reserve, per NHL.com and the Stars' own announcement — tips the matchup toward the Bruins. Dallas have scored 20 goals across eight games; Boston have outscored opponents 14-6 over their last three alone. David Pastrnak leads the scoring at 12 points, with Morgan Geekie and Fraser Minten both sitting on eight. The depth is working. Pavel Zacha is a game-time decision tonight with an upper-body issue, per NESN's Adam Pellerin — his availability at center shapes the forward deployment more than any other variable. The shift to watch: how Marco Sturm fills the middle-six minutes if Zacha cannot go. Two of Dallas's four healthy centers logged heavy faceoff workloads last week; Boston's faceoff battle will decide puck possession in the third.
Boston sit 7-2-0 with 14 points from nine games. The Playbook called a win Friday at Honda Center, and it delivered — a 4-2 away win over Anaheim Ducks, followed 24 hours later by a 4-1 away win over Los Angeles Kings to complete the California sweep. Five straight wins. Fourteen goals scored, six conceded across those three road games.
The Bruins win Tuesday at American Airlines Center. Dallas has dropped three of their last four at home and are missing Matt Duchene — out roughly three months following core surgery, per the team's announcement — alongside David Perron and Oskar Back. Roope Hintz is day-to-day as of today. That is three centres and a winger absent from their lineup at a minimum.
Charlie McAvoy's reinstatement last week resolved the most visible roster constraint. The remaining personnel question is Nikita Zadorov, whom head coach Marco Sturm scratched on this road trip — per the Boston Herald — without explanation. That decision shapes the defensive matchup Tuesday and is the shift to watch: whether Zadorov returns to the lineup or Sturm holds the same configuration that just went 2-0. David Pastrnak leads at 12 points; Pavel Zacha remains out.
Fraser Minten scored twice in the 6-3 away win over San Jose Sharks. The Bruins win tonight at Honda Center.
That call comes with two caveats: Anaheim sits at 4-2-0 with a plus-3 goal differential, and this paper's record on Bruins road calls is mixed. But Boston has outscored opponents 17-5 across its last three games, and Charlie McAvoy is back. Per CBS News Boston Sports, McAvoy scored in his season debut Tuesday after serving a six-game suspension — his return straightens the defensive workload that four defencemen had been absorbing. David Pastrnak leads Boston's scorers at 8 points (2G, 6A). Minten has 4 goals and 7 points. The Ducks are without Troy Terry on injured reserve and Ryan Poehling out 6-8 weeks with an MCL sprain, per the league feed, thinning their forward depth. Mikael Granlund and Cutter Gauthier are both day-to-day. The matchup to watch is Boston's special teams against a depleted Anaheim forward group on the penalty kill.
Charlie McAvoy returned from his six-game suspension and scored in the 6-3 away win over San Jose Sharks. This paper called Boston to win that game on 12 October, and it hit.
The Bruins win on balance Friday at Honda Center — a W3 run, 17 goals scored against 5 conceded across those three games, and a depleted Anaheim Ducks side missing Cutter Gauthier, Ryan Poehling, and Troy Terry from the lineup.
McAvoy's return reshapes the defensive deployment immediately, per Yahoo Sports. His absence had shortened the rotation; now Marco Sturm has a capable top pair to match against Anaheim's best forwards rather than leaning on thinner options. That workload distribution is where the previous six games showed strain. Fraser Minten leads Boston's skaters with 4 goals and 7 points; David Pastrnak sits at 8 points. Anaheim carry a goal difference of plus-3 in 6 games — respectable, but their injury attrition in the forward group limits their matchup options. Watch which line Sturm deploys against Anaheim's remaining top-six when Boston has last change on the road — that is the tactical test the win at San Jose did not answer.
Charlie McAvoy is back. The Bruins reinstated their top defenceman from suspension in time for Tuesday's road trip to SAP Center at San Jose.
That return is the most consequential roster fact of the week. Expect Boston to win at San Jose on Tuesday. The Bruins arrive riding consecutive wins — the 5-1 home win over Philadelphia Flyers and the 6-1 home win over Utah Mammoth — and have scored 12 goals across those three most recent outings against just six conceded. David Pastrnak leads the team with 7 points (2G, 5A) through six games; Fraser Minten, who per Stanley Cup of Chowder recorded a goal and two assists in the Flyers rout alone, sits at 5 points. The Sharks carry a negative goal differential of -4 through five games, having allowed 17 goals. The matchup favors Boston's forwards. The shift to watch is McAvoy's first defensive-zone deployment against San Jose's transition game — if his workload is managed carefully on the road, the Bruins' back end should handle whatever San Jose generates.
The 5-1 home win over Philadelphia Flyers gives Boston back-to-back victories. This paper called it yesterday, and it landed.
Eleven skaters recorded points. That is not luck — it is a sign that Marco Sturm's deployment is distributing scoring chances across multiple lines rather than loading one unit. Fraser Minten, with 2 goals and 5 points across the season, is producing at the top of the scoresheet. David Pastrnak sits at 7 points in 6 games, the clear driver. The Bruins scored 12 goals across their last three completed games while conceding 6, a goal differential of +6 in that window. Per CBS News Boston Sports, Jeremy Swayman faced just 14 shots Saturday — a light workload that keeps him sharp ahead of a road trip.
On balance, San Jose's -4 goal differential through 5 games and 17 goals allowed suggest the Sharks are a team this Bruins group can score against. The Playbook predicts a Boston win at SAP Center on Tuesday. The test is whether Sturm can maintain the same line-distribution against a road crowd.
Philadelphia comes to TD Garden tonight having conceded 19 goals in five games — a rate that makes them the most permeable defence Boston will have faced this young season. That is the standard on trial. The Bruins win tonight.
David Pastrnak's 2-goal, 4-assist start — per CBS News Boston Sports, his two goals against Utah tied him with Brad Marchand on the club's all-time goals list — gives Marco Sturm a point driver at full throttle. Morgan Geekie (1G, 3A) and Mark Kastelic (1G, 3A) add a second and third option that Philadelphia's penalty kill, already stressed by a 19-goals-against, cannot plan around one player to stop. Philadelphia's two points from five games (0-3-2) signals a side still searching for any defensive system that holds. TD Garden should be forgiving ground.
This paper said on yesterday that Utah would win at Boston, and it missed: the Bruins won 6-1. The standard a 3W-2L-0OTL start gets judged by is repeatability, and one rout does not meet it. Boston sit on 6 points from 5 games, but across the last three the goal difference is -1, with 8 scored and 9 conceded. Two of those three were 1-4 losses, one away to Minnesota Wild, one at home to Ottawa Senators. The prevailing read is that Utah proved the lines work. David Pastrnak's 2 goals and 4 assists, per MassLive Sports, tied Brad Marchand on the club's all-time goals list. Precedent says a six-goal night is an outlier. What differs is the opponent: Philadelphia Flyers are 0-3-2 with a -13 goal difference, having conceded 19. The Playbook expects Boston to beat Philadelphia at TD Garden on Saturday. The link between the new lines and sustained scoring is not established; Saturday tests it against a team that cannot defend.
Boston have conceded 11 goals in three games. Utah arrive at TD Garden on Thursday with a 3-1-0 record and a +9 goal difference. Boston's last completed season shows a power play 3.4 points better than Utah's, 23.4% against 20.0%, and that is where Boston has room. Matthew Poitras came off injured reserve on 5 October, so the forward group has one more body to deploy, though no report says where he lines up. The constraint is the schedule: the Winnipeg and Minnesota games were back to back, and that rotation pressure is why the goaltending workload bears watching. Mark Kastelic leads Boston with 3 points, and Hampus Lindholm, Elias Lindholm, Nikita Zadorov and David Pastrnak each have 2. Scoring is spread thin, with no one driving it. The Playbook calls Utah to win Thursday. Boston's penalty kill ran 1.2 points worse than Utah's last season, and the early mistakes MassLive described against Ottawa are the kind a team with 17 goals in four games punishes. Watch Boston's first power play of the night.
Bruins supporters who have watched 11 goals go past their goaltender in three games now find themselves reading about the team as a prime trade destination for a 103-point center. The Bruins are on a two-game losing streak — the 1-4 home loss to Ottawa Senators on Monday the most recent entry — and yet per Yahoo Sports, Boston is named the top landing spot for a superstar center who posted 103 points last season. On balance, The Playbook expects Utah Mammoth to win Thursday at TD Garden. The gap between what this roster needs and what it currently produces is not abstract: Mark Kastelic leads Boston's scoring through four games with three points, David Pastrnak and Hampus Lindholm each sitting on two. That is not a top-six that makes a 103-point center unnecessary — it is one that makes the conversation feel urgent. The trust supporters extend to management when a team struggles early is not unconditional, and the roster moves of the past two weeks — waivers on Henri Jokiharju, Michael Eyssimont, Lukas Reichel, the reinstating of Matthew Poitras from injured reserve — describe a group still finding its shape. Whether that shape includes a center of that calibre before the trade deadline is the question Thursday's matchup against a Utah Mammoth side that has scored 17 goals in four games cannot answer, but will sharpen.
The 1-4 home loss to Ottawa Senators last night ended any sense of early momentum. Two regulation losses in a row, 11 goals conceded across the three-game form window, and a schedule that opened with back-to-back road dates — the shape of this start is unflattering. Per MassLive Sports, Ottawa has now won four of their last five against Boston, and that trend sits heavier after last night's performance at TD Garden. This paper called a narrow Bruins win; it didn't happen, and that's two missed calls in a row on Boston results. On balance, The Playbook predicts Utah Mammoth win Thursday at TD Garden. Utah has outscored opponents 12-5 across three games this season, and a Bruins group that has given up 11 goals in its last three outings is a matchup Utah's offense will target. Matthew Poitras was reinstated from injured reserve on 5 October, which adds depth at center, but the goals-against rate is a structural problem no single roster move resolves overnight. Mark Kastelic leads Boston's scoring with three points; no one else has cracked that mark. Watch whether the Bruins' penalty-kill deployment tightens Thursday — last season's 76.9% PK rate gives Utah's power play room to operate.
Michael Eyssimont is on waivers. The Bruins carry four points from three games and host Ottawa tonight at TD Garden.
Per the Boston Herald, Eyssimont's placement opens the door for Matt Poitras, who has been on injured reserve since late September per the transaction record. That is a net roster shift, not a depth upgrade yet — Poitras has not played a game this season, and MassLive Sports reported the move only as a possible sign that his debut is drawing closer, not a certainty.
The Bruins expect Ottawa to arrive in reasonable early-season shape: one game played, one win, three goals scored. Last completed season, Ottawa posted a 24.0% power play and a 54.5% faceoff rate — both edges over Boston's 23.4% and 53.1% from the same sample. Special teams and faceoff deployment will be the matchup that matters tonight.
Mark Kastelic leads Boston's scoring at three points through three games. The Bruins expect a close game at home, and on balance The Playbook calls a narrow Boston win — the prior road loss to Minnesota was the outlier; TD Garden steadies them.
The first shift after a Poitras update, if one comes, is the one to watch.
The 1-4 away loss to Minnesota Wild is the first accountability marker of Marco Sturm's young season. This paper called it yesterday, and it hit. Boston carried a 2-0 record into Grand Casino Arena and gave up four goals — the system that produced a 3-0 home shutout over New York Rangers and a 4-3 overtime win in Winnipeg simply did not hold in Minnesota. Eight goals scored and seven conceded across three games leaves a goal difference of plus-one: functional, not comfortable. Mark Kastelic leads the roster with three points and Hampus Lindholm and Elias Lindholm each sit at two, which is a reasonable early distribution — but the Minnesota result is the number Sturm answers for first. Ottawa Senators arrive at TD Garden on Monday having played one game, winning it. They are not a soft reopening. The Playbook calls Boston to win at home — the roster depth, home ice and a rest advantage over an Ottawa side one game into its own schedule tip the balance narrowly.
Grand Casino Arena tonight, and Michael DiPietro is expected to start in goal. Per Stanley Cup of Chowder, the Bruins face Minnesota on the second night of a back-to-back, and that workload shapes everything. The Playbook calls Minnesota to win this one — the schedule disadvantage is real, and the Wild are fresh off a 3-1 opening win with a goals-against average of 1.00 through one game played.
This paper missed on Winnipeg, calling a narrow road loss before JJ Peterka settled it 3:21 into overtime. Elias Lindholm's tip with 1:38 left forced the extra period, and David Pastrnak set up both late goals — his two assists making him a point-per-game contributor through two NHL games alongside Hampus Lindholm at 2 points apiece.
The schedule is the scheme tonight. Marco Sturm's bench shortened through the Winnipeg overtime shift, and last change belongs to the Wild at Grand Casino Arena. Minnesota carried a 25.2% power play and 79.8% penalty kill last completed season — numbers that punish a team defending tired on the road. Watch the Bruins' special-teams kill in the second period: that is where a back-to-back deficit shows up first.
Fraser Minten's two-point night closed Tuesday's 3-0 home win over New York — and tonight, the Bruins take that momentum to Canada Life Centre. The Playbook predicts Boston losses this one on the road, narrowly, against a Winnipeg side that hasn't dropped a puck yet this season.
The roster constraint is real. Henri Jokiharju is on waivers. Matthew Poitras is on injured reserve. The blue line is thinner than it was last week, and Marco Sturm is managing that without the two games of preseason ramp-up most coaches would prefer. Minten leads the club at 2 points (1G, 1A). JJ Peterka and Mark Kastelic each have a goal. That is the offensive core carrying the load into Winnipeg.
Last season's numbers set the baseline: Boston's power play ran at 23.4%, Winnipeg's penalty kill at 77.6%. Those figures slot almost exactly against each other. Faceoffs could decide early possession — Boston won 53.1% last season; Winnipeg sat at 51.1%. Jeremy Swayman's 24-save shutout Tuesday is the goaltending marker to measure tonight against.
Boston won Tuesday's opener 3-0 over New York, and this paper called it — hit.
Fraser Minten and JJ Peterka each scored in that win, per MassLive Sports, and between them they account for two of Boston's three goals this season. The roster now looks different heading to Winnipeg on Friday. Henri Jokiharju went on waivers Sunday. Matthew Poitras is on injured reserve. Lukas Reichel and Alex Steeves were waived earlier in the week. Four moves in four days is not routine roster trimming — that is Marco Sturm finalising the group he intends to run. The Bruins expect to beat Winnipeg on the road Friday. The Jets carry no points from no games played, and Boston's last completed season showed a 23.4% power play that Winnipeg's 77.6% penalty kill will have to manage. The open question is goaltending rotation: two road losses to open the week before Tuesday's win created real workload pressure between the pipes. That question doesn't resolve itself in Winnipeg — it gets answered there.
David Pastrnak wearing the 'C' is the standard this franchise has now set in public. Per MassLive Sports, the Bruins have named Pastrnak their 28th captain — and head coach Marco Sturm is on record welcoming the appointment. The Playbook predicts Boston win Tuesday at TD Garden. That is the organisation's call too, whether or not they put it in those words. Pastrnak finished last season with 29 goals and 71 assists for 100 points; the captaincy either accelerates that production or it becomes the first thing asked about when it does not. New York finished 2025-26 with 77 points on a 34-39-9 record, a goal differential of minus-12, and a penalty kill that ranked above Boston's last completed season — 79.9 percent against the Bruins' 76.9. Boston's last two results were the 0-2 away loss to Philadelphia and the 2-3 away loss to Washington. Both losses came on the road. Tuesday is at home. The institution has handed Pastrnak the title. Now it needs the result.
The Bruins win Tuesday against New York at TD Garden.
David Pastrnak is Boston's new captain, per Stanley Cup of Chowder, and he enters Tuesday's home opener at TD Garden carrying 100 points on 29 goals and 71 assists from last season. The Bruins win Tuesday against New York. That call sits on one clear edge: New York finished last season at 77 points on a 34-39-9 record, with a goal differential of minus-12 — a team that conceded more than it scored across a full 82-game schedule. Boston's recent three-game window shows cracks — consecutive road losses to Philadelphia and Washington after the 5-1 home win over Philadelphia — but MassLive Sports reports the club has been trimming its roster ahead of opening night, with Henri Jokiharju placed on waivers and four other players also shifted off the active group. The question is depth on the blue line without Jokiharju, and whether Charlie McAvoy, who put up 61 points last season, carries that burden through his regular-season shifts. Morgan Geekie at 39 goals gives the forward group a second scoring threat alongside Pastrnak. The matchup to watch is Boston's penalty kill — 76.9% last season — against a New York power play that ran at 24.7%.