"The bad news? Right now, Geekie is the only player who is scoring goals regularly. As they try to break even in their four-game road trip on Wednesday against the Islanders, the Bruins have scored six goals in the first three games and Geekie has scored five of them. Mikey Eyssimont is the only play other than Geekie to score a goal on the trip, during which an overtime win in Los Angeles was sandwiched between losses in Anaheim and San Jose."
"At Tuesday's practice, coach Marco Sturm went back with the Czech line of Matej Blumel (a healthy scratch in San Jose after his turnover led to a shorthanded goal in LA), Pavel Zacha and Pastrnak, while a second line consisted of Marat Khusnutdinov, Elias Lindholm and Geekie. Sturm told reporters after practice at UBS Arena that the lines are subject to change. "That's for right now. We'll see. We're going to wake up (Wednesday) and see if we still like it," he said."
"At this point, he might as well give it another shot, what with the lack of production. It would behoove them to create two scoring lines. He tried separating Pastrnak and Geekie first in LA and it at least produced a 2-1 OT win. On Sunday in San Jose, Sturm tried it again but, after being shut out through the first 40 minutes, abandoned it in the third period, reuniting Geekie and Pastrnak and the pair combined on a goal after an urgent shift."
Morgan Geekie has scored five of the Bruins' six goals during their four-game road trip, emerging as the primary consistent goal-scorer while other forwards struggle to produce. The Bruins have an overtime win in Los Angeles and losses in Anaheim and San Jose. David Pastrnak has five assists in his last five games but has not scored in those contests. Coach Marco Sturm adjusted lines in practice, reuniting and separating Geekie and Pastrnak at times and kept lines subject to change. Elias Lindholm returned from a knee injury and looked slightly behind the play, and Matej Blumel remains pointless and under evaluation.
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