Just the facts

When: Tonight, 7pm

Where: TD Garden – Boston, Mass.

How to follow: NESN, NHLN, 98.5 The Sports Hub

Know your enemy

• 7-8-3, 17PTS, tied for 5th in Central Division
• Clayton Keller: 6G-10A-16PTS; Dylan Guenther: 7G-7A-14TS; Nick Schmaltz: 0G-13A-13PTS
• Connor Ingram: 6-4-3, 3.61 GAA, .871 save percentage; Karel Vejmelka: 3-4-1, 4.04 GAA, .861 save percentage
• Opposing perspective: Blocked on Utah Hockey Club

Game notes

• The Boston Bruins will look to turn the page in the first quarter of the season with Joe Sacco at the helm tonight against the Utah Hockey Club at the TD Garden.
• The Bruins’ first game of the Sacco era came prefaced with an “avoidable” sack from Jim Montgomery. Players and the new interim head coach discussed the state of the Bruins yesterday, acknowledging that he had fouled out, underperformed on the ice and took some of the fall for coaching.
• Sacco led his first practice as interim head coach yesterday. It was a full workout with an emphasis on special teams. The Bruins’ power play has been anything but special this season and hurt an already struggling team.
• While the Bruins are trying to break out of their power struggle, Utah isn’t doing much better at 13.7%.
• After day one, Sacco said he felt it was his job to focus on the Bruins’ energy and play and, as a group, get the team to believe they are a good team again. “We have good players on this team and they can do more,” Sacco said yesterday.
• One way the Bruins want to step up their game, and what Sacco called his first order of business, is making the team harder to play against. This starts with being stingier and defending the net front better. He said he feels the team can score goals, but the focus is too much on that this season and they are neglecting their defensive zone. The Bruins have given up 69 goals in 20 games for a 21-goal differential. Their goals against average is 27th in the league. But the offense has not been there either and is also at the bottom.
• This is the last time the B’s see Utah this season. The Bruins fell 2-1 in overtime to Utah in their first meeting on October 19. In the game, the Bruins were outshot 32-22. Cole Koepke scored the B’s only goal of the game.
• Utah comes to Boston coming off a two-game losing streak. They last played on Monday, losing 6-2 to the Washington Capitals. For Utah, Guenther has four points in his last five games.
• See you tonight and we’ll see what happens!