It’s officially late in the season, but unfortunately it doesn’t get any easier as the Vancouver Canucks visit TD Garden on Thursday night. Vancouver scored an NHL-high 73 points on the season. The Canucks won 3-2 against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday. Boston, second in the league behind Vancouver, lost 4-1 to the Calgary Flames that night.
Parker Wotherspoon is set to replace Kevin Shattenkirk in Boston’s third pairing, while the Black and Gold have center Jesper Boqvist and wings Jakub Lauko (Jakub Lauko) and Oscar Steen.
Puck drop from TD Garden is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET, and you can watch it on NESN after an hour of pregame coverage.
Check out the lines and defensive pairings here.
BOSTON BRUINS (31-10-9)
Brad Marchand — Charlie Coyle — Jake DeBrusk
James van Riemsdyk — Pavel Zacha — David Pastrnak
Danton Heinen — Morgan Geekie — Trent Frederic
Jakub Lauko — Jesper Boqvist — Oskar Steen
Matt Grzelcyk — Charlie McAvoy
Hampus Lindholm — Brandon Carlo
Derek Forbort — Parker Wotherspoon
Linus Ullmark
VANCOUVER CANUCKS (34-11-5)
Pius Suter — J.T. Miller — Brock Boeser
Ilya Mikheyev — Elias Pettersson — Elias Lindholm
Dakota Joshua — Teddy Blueger — Conor Garland
Nils Hoglander — Nils Aman — Sam Lafferty
Quinn Hughes — Filip Hronek
Ian Cole — Tyler Myers
Nikita Zadorov — Noah Juulsen
Thatcher Demko
