BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak had one aim and assisted on Pavel Zacha’s winner because the Boston Bruins scored 3 times within the third interval to beat a two-goal deficit and beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday evening.
4 days after Bruins captain Brad Marchand was traded to the Panthers, his outdated crew beat his new one and despatched the defending Stanley Cup champions to their first loss in seven video games. Boston, which had misplaced eight of 9 heading into the commerce deadline, has since received back-to-back video games in opposition to possible playoff groups from Florida.
Marchand didn’t play whereas he recovers from an unspecified upper-body damage that knocked him out of Boston’s March 1 sport in Pittsburgh. He took half in a morning skate on the TD Backyard, telling reporters afterward: “It nonetheless felt bizarre.”
The previous Bruins captain was well-represented in jerseys within the crowd, together with a pair of followers sporting model new No. 63 Panthers sweaters alongside the glass subsequent to the penalty field.
Dmitry Kulikov scored to snap a 46-game drought, and Mackie Samoskevich made it 2-0 early within the third interval on a five-on-three energy play. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 pictures for Florida, which had received 11 of its earlier 13 video games.
However Boston made it 2-1 when Casey Mittelstadt, one of many crew’s commerce deadline acquisitions, discovered Pastrnak in entrance halfway by means of the third. Mason Lohrei tied it with 6:09 left, after which Pastrnak fed Zacha for the winner with 3:17 left.
Jeremy Swayman made 24 saves for the Bruins.
Key second
Florida poked a puck by means of Swayman’s pads with 1:31 left however the officers blew the play useless earlier than it crossed the road.
Key stat
Pastrnak’s aim snapped Florida’s shutout streak of 186 minutes, 49 seconds — the longest in franchise historical past. The Panthers’ earlier document was 182:37 set from Feb. 21-27, 2004.
Up Subsequent
The Panthers are in Toronto on Thursday evening and the Bruins go to Ottawa.
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