As much as there was no doubt that Morgan Geekie was mired in a slump as he went 12 straight games without a goal, it is abundantly clear that stretch of futility is now over for Boston’s resident sniper.
The B’s winger had two goals in Saturday’s 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens at TD Garden and now has three goals in his last three games while also scoring his 100th career NHL goal with the game-winner against the Habs last weekend.
It’s good to see Morgan Geekie back to being a scoring machine. pic.twitter.com/XxbECNXwx6
— Jamie Gatlin (@JamieGatlin17) January 25, 2026
Geekie admitted that he was keenly aware of his drought when he was in the middle of it, and attempted many different remedies – from changing his visor on his helmet to altering the tape job on his stick -- before breaking out shortly after his baby boy Max was born a little less than two weeks ago.
“I thought it would matter more,” said Geekie of breaking through the 12-game dry spell. “It sucks when you’re in it but we’ve been winning the whole time, so I don’t know. Obviously you want to have personal success but it makes it pretty easy to come to the rink when you win eight, nine games.
“Obviously, I want to produce, I want to help the team win but I’m OK to take a back seat and watch other guys do it, for sure. Guys are stepping up and I think that’s kudos to the depth we have in here.”
The challenge for a guy like Geekie is that he’s never going to be a high-volume shooter like David Pastrnak, who can sometimes get 10 or more shot attempts in a game based on his skating, puck-handling, playmaking and ability to creatively make things happen with the puck on his stick. Geekie is more of a finisher that is on the receiving end where he can utilize his wicked shot and release to beat goaltenders even when they can see the puck coming from a straight-ahead Geekie shot attempt.
His winning goal versus Montreal on Saturday was a great example where nobody – not even the refs – caught what happened to the puck after it rocketed off his stick with the one-timer attempt at the net. It took a few seconds before players realized the puck was in the back of the net after it deflected slightly off a Canadiens defender before completely baffling Sam Montembeault on the way to the bottom of the net.
It was obvious that the slump was about to end while watching him dating back to the last game of the five game homestand against Seattle that Geekie was again getting the quality scoring chances. It finally did with a blue-collar tipped puck on a PP goal in the meaningless third period of a blowout loss on the road to the Dallas Stars,
“Every player is going to go through this, sometimes,” said Pastrnak, who has battled through his own share of slumps over the years. “That’s just a part of experience. I’ve been through it many times in my career. He’s definitely around [scoring goals] already, like the last four or five games. He came big for us today. It’s good to see. We need him.”
Geekie credited some conversations with one of the greatest goal scorers in Bruins history, B’s President Cam Neely, as being helpful to get him back on track.
“I think that was maybe an identity I took on the last year or so, so to have someone of his stature and what he’s accomplished here kind of relate to me a little, I was able to take a deep breath and rest,” said Geekie. “It means a lot. It’s definitely important for me as a player to just be able to [realize] everyone goes through it, no matter how good you are.
“We were by the stick rack and he was just quizzing me about why I changed everything, the color of my tape and whatever,” added Geekie, of a conversation after Saturday’s morning skate. “He just told me to take it easy and it will come eventually. It was all lighthearted, but he cares a lot and he wants me to produce and wants what’s best for the team, so however I can do that is what he’s looking for. It’s just how the game works. He did say just, ‘when chances stop coming, that’s when you need to be worried.’ But they haven’t yet so we’ll just try to keep creating and one will go in.”
It’s also important to keep things in perspective when it comes to Geekie and the longest slump he’s had in a Boston Bruins uniform, as he still leads all Bruins players with 28 goals on the season and is on pace for a career-high 44 goals and 74 points after setting career highs in goals and points last season as well.
That continues to show growth in his top-6 game after signing a six-year, $33 million contract that’s already looking like a massive bargain for the Black and Gold.
ONE TIMERS
*Good to see Charlie McAvoy stepping up as a team spokesman to talk about the HBO Show “Heated Rivalry” and the level of acceptance an LGBTQ player would find in the Bruins dressing room.
“I haven't seen it but from what I've heard of that show, it's been growing the game a lot and in support of that community, so that stuff's all awesome. It's awesome for hockey. It's awesome for just for everybody,” said McAvoy during “Hockey is For Everyone” Night at TD Garden on Thursday against the Vegas Golden Knights. “So, I'm happy that tonight, that we won on this night. And hopefully a lot of people feel the support of the Bruins…I've heard so much support from people within those communities that it means a lot to them. So, it's the least that we can do to show our support and show that we're all on the same team."
This has obviously changed as the young generations have populated NHL dressing rooms and speaks to the levels of tolerance and acceptance across all swaths of the population, including in hockey dressing rooms.
*Interesting to note that the Bruins are vehemently denying that their first-round pick acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Brandon Carlo trade was not part of the Rasmus Andersson trade talks, indicating that it is not something that is on the table for trade talks for other defensemen ahead of the trade deadline.
Is there a chance the Bruins would roll the dice and take a chance on a reunion with Dougie Hamilton as the defenseman appears to be on borrowed time with a New Jersey Devils team that has healthy scratched him this season? Stranger things have happened and the B’s definitely are on the lookout for another blueliner that could slot into their group and give them a bona fide top-4 crew that would be formidable in the playoffs.
*It’s always fun to see the Boston pro sports teams supporting each other during their big moments, so it was no surprise to see the Bruins players all sporting the iconic “I heart Drake Maye” T-shirts as they walked into TD Garden on Saturday afternoon ahead of their rivalry game against the Montreal Canadiens.
You love to see it. pic.twitter.com/K8KRJArEBt
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) January 25, 2026