Bruins Notes: Boston Coming Together With Back-To-Back Shutout Wins

BOSTON — The Bruins blanked the Seattle Kraken 2-0 at TD Garden on Sunday night after shutting out the Philadelphia Flyers by the same score the day before on the road.

The games had similarities to which Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery wasn’t exactly pleased with but saw his team play more to their identity across the two games.

“I loved our first period, disliked our second, very similar to the Flyers game,” he said. “I love the effort on blocking shots. I love us sticking together, (Trent Frederic) tonight defending (Matthew) Poitras. Last night, how we stuck together at the end of the game against the Flyers.

“You could see us coming together. We’re protecting the slot. We’re sacrificing for each other, which is a start. Our execution still needs to grow. Our maturity as a team as far as game management, still needs to grow. We’re in a winning game zone now. You don’t give up goals, and your goaltenders pay as well as we did. It’s a good step. We’re heading in the right direction. November’s been much better than October.”

Charlie Coyle, in particular, had an outstanding game for the Bruins, and Montgomery quickly praised the forward’s efforts throughout the weekend.

“I just think the last two nights, Charlie Coyle’s been moving his feet. When he moves his feet, he creates turnovers, he takes pucks to the net,” Montgomery said. “Like that play in a penalty kill where he ended up on a partial breakaway. He went through two people, and it was like he had a silverback gorilla on his back, and he just kept going. That’s the effort and the kind of persistence that we want in our group.”

Coyle had an absolutely beautiful goal on the power play to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the first period for his second tally of the season.

“It was a great look by (Brad Marchand). Me and (David Pastrnak) kind of switched,” Coyle explained. “(When Pastranak’s) in the middle he’s gonna bring a lot of guys (to him). I don’t think they’re too worried about me and Marchy found me. … It was a great look by Marchy, the movement of the power play, Pasta, who probably doesn’t get a point on that but he takes two or three guys with him because they’re all focused on him and he’s a big part of that play.”

Here are more notes from Sunday’s Bruins-Kraken game:

— David Pastrnak did not play a single shift in the third period of the Black and Gold’s win over the Kraken.

“Coach’s decision, third period,” Montgomery said after the game. “That’s all I’m going to comment on it.”

— Boston posted shutouts in two straight regular season games for the first time since 2011 when they blanked the New York Islanders and Montreal Canadiens consecutively. It was the first time the Bruins posted shutouts in back-to-back games since 2008 against the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks.

— The Bruins penalty kill was a perfect 3-for-3 in the game, while the power play was only able to capitalize on one of Seattle’s five infractions.

— Boston outshot Seattle 33-23 in the contest and blocked an additional 27 Kraken shots before they made their way on to Jeremy Swayma, who earned his first shutout of the season.

— The Bruins and NESN honored longtime voice of the franchise Jack Edwards in a pregame ceremony, which revealed a booth dedication featuring Edwards’ signature line, “From high above the ice … .”

— Boston will look to extend its win streak to three games when the club heads north of the border to Toronto in an Original Six matchup with the Leafs on Tuesday night. Puck drop from Scotiabank Arena is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET. You can watch the game, plus an hour of pregame coverage on NESN.