It sure must have felt like a long time coming for Morgan Geekie after answering a lot of questions in the last week or two about scoring just one goal in his first 14 games of the season.
He wasn’t shooting enough, he wasn’t hitting the net enough, and a myriad of other reasons were behind it, according to everybody with an opinion about it. But the bottom line is that the Bruins forward’s goal-scoring woes were amplified after the B’s lost back-to-back road games in Carolina and St. Louis while struggling to score enough to get over the hump.
When a player like Geekie, with back-to-back 30-goal seasons on his resume, is scuffling to find the shooting range amidst the losses, it begins to wear on the struggling shooter. And it looked like that would be the case again on Saturday, when the Bruins trailed a woeful Blackhawks team in the final seconds of their Halloween matinee game.
But Geekie changed all that when he slammed home a game-tying one-timer with 11 seconds left in regulation, pushing things into overtime before the Bruins took home a 5-4 OT win at TD Garden on Saturday afternoon.
MORGAN GEEKIE TIES IT FOR THE BRUINS WITH 10 SECONDS LEFT 🫨🚨 https://t.co/PY9DIRYd7F
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“Very happy for him. Hopefully that helps him moving forward,” said Marco Sturm. “He had some opportunities and he hit the post in the first [period], but he definitely hit that rocket in the third to tie it up. Hopefully that relaxes him a bit and there are more [goals] coming.”
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