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Miles Wood knows he may have cost his team their opener Thursday night.
The New Jersey Devils forward, who is as exciting to watch as he is irregular (and sometimes silly), imposed not one, but two interference penalties on Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask.
The two times he was in the box to lead the goaltender, the Bruins scored.
The first collision came at 5:02 pm in the opening period, and 38 seconds into the man advantage, Brad Marchand put the Bruins 1-0.
Then, at 11:13 in the third period, Wood ran Rask again. And seconds into that power play, Nick Ritchie put the Bruins in front 2-1.
If he had stayed out of the box, we could be talking about a different result than the 3-2 win the Bruins came out with after Marchand’s clincher in the shootout.
“Those two calls on me were extremely selfish, I’m going to put the blame on me, that shouldn’t happen,” Wood said after the game on Zoom.
The interesting wrinkle this season is the number of baseball-style series teams that will play in the regular season. Thus, the Bruins and the Devils will meet again on Saturday afternoon. It remains to be seen what level of retribution the Bruins seek.
Thumbnail photo via Ed Mulholland / USA TODAY Sports Images
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