Bruins Lean on Depth and Swayman to Drop Flyers 5-1
Minten drives a balanced attack while iron comes into play; Pastrnak and Tippett each ping the frame.
This wasn’t just a scoreboard win — Boston carried the game and kept Philadelphia at arm’s length. The Bruins owned the better chances all night; their edge in expected goals — a read on chance quality — was 3.19 to 1.36. The shot clock told the same story at 32 to 15, and the puck kept finding Bruins in dangerous spots.
The depth pieces did the heavy lifting. Fraser Minten (one goal, two assists) was in the middle of everything, with help from JJ Peterka, Casey Mittelstadt, Marat Khusnutdinov, Pavel Zacha and James Hagens. Even without a goal, David Pastrnak threatened, and he rang iron — as did Owen Tippett — in a game that saw two pings.
In net, Jeremy Swayman was tidy (14 saves on 15) with a small positive goals saved above expected at 0.36 — basically stopping a bit more than the chances suggested — which kept Boston’s tilt intact. For the Flyers, a busy Dan Vladar (27 of 32) couldn’t hide the lack of pressure: low shots and limited chance quality fed a 5-1 final that felt earned.
