David Pastrnak was as soon as once more the hero for the Bruins, ending Boston’s six-game dropping streak with simply two seconds remaining in additional time.
The Black and Gold star practically ended the sport in regulation when he lobbed the puck towards the Pathers’ empty web, and as luck, or somewhat unhealthy luck, would have it, the rubber rang off the submit, and the play got here again to the Bruins’ zone on an icing.
With 1.8 seconds left, Sam Reinhart loved the advantage of a bouncing puck that bought previous Jeremy Swayman to tie the sport 3-3 and power the additional body.
Pastrnak lastly bought the luck and bounce the Bruins desperately wanted. With time working out, Pastrnak tried a cross-ice go that went off Reinhart’s stick and beat Sergei Bobrovsky, giving the Bruins the much-needed 4-3 victory.
“Clearly, (the Panthers) had been pushing arduous. They’re a extremely good offensive staff,” Bruins interim head coach Joe Sacco instructed reporters in Dawn, Fla., per team-provided audio. “We had a bit hassle. We struggled popping out of our D-zone below stress towards the top. … They discovered a solution to tie it, however thankfully for us, we confirmed some resiliency in additional time, and we discovered a solution to get a win.”
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The Bruins sniper potted two targets within the recreation for his team-leading 18th and nineteenth tallies. He has six targets in his final 5 video games. Pastrnak had the secondary help on Morgan Geekie’s first-period power-play objective for his twelfth multi-point recreation of the season.
Listed here are extra notes from Saturday’s Bruins-Panthers recreation:
— Swayman made 40 saves on 43 photographs for his win in six video games. He improved to 14-15-3 total with a 2.91 goals-against common and a .895 save share.
“He was the distinction within the recreation,” Sacco instructed reporters, per team-provided audio. “The goalie performed very nicely tonight. And that’s what you want generally while you’re going by way of a state of affairs like we’re. (The Panthers) performed nicely, we had excellent goaltending in the present day, and that was the distinction within the recreation.”
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— Geekie and Pastrnak every scored targets on the person benefit to finish the Bruins’ power-play drought. Boston had not scored on the ability play in 9 video games, courting again to Dec. 23 in opposition to the Washington Capitals.
— Oliver Wahlstrom scored his first objective as a Bruin to increase Boston’s result in 3-2 within the third interval. The objective got here on the ahead’s solely shot throughout 8:15 of ice time in opposition to the Panthers.
Boston claimed Wahlstrom off waivers on Dec. 14. The Maine native has performed in 10 video games for the Black and Gold, averaging 10:59 of ice time on the third and fourth strains.
— The Bruins head again to Boston to host the Tampa Bay Lightning after splitting the two-game street journey in Florida. Puck drop from TD Backyard is scheduled at 7 p.m. ET on NESN.
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