The Stanley Cup finalist “Lightning” lost to the Boston Bruins 3:5 (1:1, 0:3, 2:1) at home, ending their four-game winning streak.
Balcers spent 11 minutes and 51 seconds on the ice in his second game as part of “Lightning”, scoring three times and finishing the game with a +/- indicator of +1.
The visitors responded to the goal scored by Nick Paul in the ninth minute with five goals by David Krejci, Nick Foligno, Charlie Coyle, Brad Marchan and David Pastrniak, scoring two goals in the majority and reaching 5:1 by the 45th minute.
Balcers made it 2:5 11 seconds after Pastrņāk’s goal, when Patrick Maroon took the puck in front of the visitors’ goal and passed to Balcer, who threw the puck into the upper right corner of the goal in front of the goal.
In the 51st minute, Paul reduced the difference to 3:5.
Maroons had two assists in this match, while Krejci (1+1), Jake Debrask and Charlie McEvoy scored two points each for the guests.
In the Boston team, Patrice Bergeron earned his 1000th point in his career with an assist to Marchan, who scored the team’s fourth goal in the 36th minute.
It was his 1235th game, in which he accumulated 409 goals and 591 assists.
Bergeron is the fourth Bruins hockey player to reach this mark. Ray Burke had 1,506 points, Johnny Busick 1,339 and Phil Esposito 1,012.
Bergeron is the 41st hockey player in the NHL who has accumulated 1000 points in one team.
In the Eastern Conference, “Lightning” is sixth with 23 points in 19 games, Pittsburgh “Penguins” represented by Theodor Blüger are ninth with 21 points in 19 matches, “Blue Jackets” of Elvja Merzlikin are in 14th place with 15 points in 18 duels, and Zemgus Girgenson’s Buffalo “Sabres” ” with 14 points in 18 matches is in 15th position.
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