After winning his first game as Bruins interim coach, Joe Sacco and his team will aim for two straight victories when Boston visits Detroit on Saturday night. Boston was saddled with a three-game losing streak (0-2-1) when Jim Montgomery was fired on Tuesday. With Sacco in charge behind the bench, the Bruins eked out a 1-0 win over visiting Utah on Thursday.
"[It felt] pretty good, I'm not going to lie to you," Sacco said. "To get our guys to get a win, too, was even more important. We feel better about ourselves, and I think how we went about the game (Thursday) was like a business-like approach.
"I thought that we had a couple of individuals that really brought the energy to our group (Thursday) to lift the bench at certain moments during the game, and just a good effort all around from our guys." Joonas Korpisalo recorded the shutout by making 22 saves. Elias Lindholm's second-period goal held up during Boston's fifth power play of the contest.
"I think it's a good confidence thing," Bruins captain Brad Marchand said. "Knowing that, you know, we can play the right way and it is in here, and we can respond. You still hate the situation that had to arise for us to respond that way.
It was a good game, but it's one game." Boston put together two shutout victories at the start of the month, then went 2-3-2 prior to Montgomery's dismissal. Sacco, who had been the team's associate coach this season, went 130-134-30 as Colorado's head coach from 2009-13.
Detroit also ended a thre.