Joonas Korpisalo stops 21 shots, Elias Lindholm scores, and Bruins win 1st game since firing coach | Sports
BOSTON (AP) — Joonas Korpisalo stopped 21 shots, Elias Lindholm scored the game’s only goal, and the Boston Bruins beat the Utah Hockey Club 1-0 on Thursday night in their first game since the team fired coach Jim Montgomery and named Joe Sacco as interim coach. The win snapped Boston’s three-game losing streak. Karel Vejmelka made 30 saves for Utah, which has now lost three straight. After coming up empty on their first four power-play opportunities, the Bruins struck on their fifth extra-man chance when Lindholm chipped in a rebound for his third goal of the season with 7:19 left in the second period. Boston thought it had the game sealed when David Pastrnak fired into an open net with 58.8 seconds to play, but the goal was taken off the board after a video review. Takeaways Utah: On the first game of a four-game road trip, Utah went 0 for 4 on the power play with the last chance coming with 6:56 remaining. Bruins: The Bruins heard a few boos from the crowd after failing on all three of their power-play chances in the first period. Sacco got his first win as a head coach since 2014 when he
