Kuraly in a sentence

The officiating did not swing in the Rangers’ favor between the reduced penalty on Kuraly and a no-goal call on a sequence that could’ve gone either way just before Lindgren’s injury.

Columbus Blue Jackets' Mathieu Olivier, center, celebrates his goal against the Edmonton Oilers with teammates Sean Kuraly, left, and James van Riemsdyk during the second period of an NHL hockey game Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio.

Just 1:44 later, Kuraly scored his seventh of the season from the slot to make it 2-0.

But the 27-year-old Kuraly, who is far more important to the Bruins than just his usual fourth line assignation, is trying not to overthink what the current situation means for him in what could be the most critical season of his career.

I think that’s a better way to put it,” said Kuraly.

Kuraly has five goals and 14 assists in 56 games for the Bruins.

One would think that this level of uncertainty is not the best situation for a player like Sean Kuraly, who is scheduled to hit unrestricted free agency for the first time next summer.

Sean Kuraly echoed the desire not to give an inch.

The Bruins made it 2-0 early in the second period after Sean Kuraly took the puck away from Petry to start a 2-on-1 break with Pastrnak, who completed a hard wrist shot past a diving Price.

The Bruins then closed the gap to one when Sean Kuraly found the net ahead of the B’s largest donnybrook of the season, a goal he didn’t get to celebrate because he was tossed for fighting before officials ruled his goal a good goal.

Kuraly slid the puck to Jake DeBrusk in the slot with the power-play clock waning, and DeBrusk fired in his fifth goal of the year with 8:03 gone in the frame to put the Bruins ahead 1-0.

Nordstrom is one of the Bruins’ best penalty killers, which is important against a higher-powered team like Toronto, but Kuraly is a capable penalty killer himself.

Sean Kuraly, Chris Wagner and Joakim Nordstrom all are under contract.

We’ve seen the emergence of the (Sean) Kuraly, (Noel) Acciari, (Chris) Wagner line playing 14, 15 minutes a night, whether it was against (Alex) Ovechkin’s line or the other night against the (Nathan) MacKinnon line.

Austin Czarnik is back up from Providence and set to play on the fourth line right wing, with Sean Kuraly centering him and Frank Vatrano.

Cassidy probably also waited too long to get Kuraly and Backes on a line together and could’ve done more to mix and match his second and third lines to see if he could find a jolt for the offense.

For nearly a minute and a half, that line kept the Lightning pinned in and the shift was capped by Kuraly drawing a penalty on Dan Girardi.

Harpur won the bout fairly easily, bloodying up Kuraly’s face, which forced him to go into the dressing room to get fixed up before returning to action.