However, David Pastrňák’s joy at making history in the NHL was marred by Boston’s defeat. The Bruins, despite two hits by the Czech representative, who will be in a few weeks defend the colors of the national team at the Olympic Gameslost to Seattle 4-7.
“It’s a missed opportunity. We were rested while they played two games in two days. We have to win a game like this and get points,” Pastrňák said after the game.
In it, he scored for the first time in the thirteenth minute, when he equalized at 1:1. That’s when he drove almost across the rink for Zador’s throw-in and finished over the goalkeeper’s shoulder, after which he was run over by one of the defending players and bumped into the goalpost, which did not please Pastrňák’s teammates Chusnutdinov and Minten, who immediately went to defend their teammate, resulting in a scuffle that subsequently had to be calmed down by the men in black and white striped jerseys.
The second goal of the Havířov native also brought an equaliser, in the twenty-seventh minute he scored to make it 2:2. At the end of the period, however, Seattle jumped back to a two-goal gap, and midway through the third, Kaapo Kakko netted the winning goal. The Bostonian also contributed to the final form of the result in the rest of the game with an assist Pavel Zacha.
Parsnip doesn’t even have to settle for second place. In terms of average goals per match, he is better than Jaromír Jágr, with a number of 0.52, to whom he is currently losing 356 goals. And that could be done after his thirty-eighth birthday, if the Czech player keeps his health and his taste for hockey.
He’s a superstar
The twenty-nine-year-old hockey player has understandably impressed overseas with his feat. “Pasternák equalizes with a beautiful goal. He’s a superstar,” gushed reporters at Emerald City Hockey over his first goal. “Another beautiful goal,” raved producer and journalist Jamie Gatlin on the X Network.
Cut of the Seattle – Boston match:
But there were also those who were not in a good mood after Pastrňák’s goal. Maybe another Davy Jones journalist. “David Pastrňák equalized with a weird little shot that went past Joey Daccord,” he gloomily commented on his first goal. And then he added more. “There are too many Boston fans here. The cheering for the goal was much louder than is decent or fair,” he also did not like the behavior of the supporters of the rival Seattle. However, since he is a journalist who covers exactly what is happening in this particular NHL unit, his frustration can be explained precisely by this.
Boston will have the closest chance to correct the hesitation on the night from Thursday to Friday against Calgary, that is, against the team where Jaromír Jágr ended his career in the NHL. It is there that David Pastrňák can start a big chase after another significant milestone.
