Bruins roll over Rangers, 6-1

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NEW YORK CITY – There’s simply no two ways about it. 

The Bruins are turning into the Beasts of the East this season, and they claimed another victim with a complete blowout 6-1 victory over the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.

With this victory, the Bruins close to within one point of the Tampa Bay Lighting for the Atlantic Division lead, and still hold a game in hand on the Bolts with a number of regular season meetings still on tap for the two rivals in the final season’s final few months.

Patrice Bergeron scored two more goals in the offensive onslaught, and now has 13 goals in his last 15 games that add up to a team-leading 24 strikes on the season for Boston’s star center. It went well beyond just Bergeron dominance, however, as Anton Khudobin was strong when Boston needed him to be in the first period with 10 saves on some pretty high quality chances.

The Bruins backup held down the fort, allowing only a Rick Nash goal in the first, and then the Bruins started getting their legs under them as the game went along. Riley Nash scored on a play right in front of the net to even things up in the first period, and then Zdeno Chara scored on a bomb from the left point that ended up being the game-winner for the Black and Gold.

Patrice Bergeron scored both of his goals in the second period sandwiched around a Tim Schaller dangle for the ages as he danced through Tony DeAngelo and Brendan Smith on his way to the net. That left things at the blowout category at the end of two periods as Schaller’s goal chased Henrik Lundqvist from the game. Sean Kuraly scored his second goal in as many games to add a little insult to injury in the third period.

Khudobin finished the night stopping 21-of-22 shots and had an easy time of things in the final 40 minutes once the Black and Gold really got things into gear.

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