David Pastrnak tallied two goals and an assist to help the visiting Boston Bruins snap a six-game losing streak with a convincing 6-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.
The Bruins led 2-0 at the first intermission and produced two goals in each period. Pastrnak’s goals bookended the scoring.
Elias Lindholm and Hampus Lindholm each notched a goal and an assist, Jonathan Aspirot and Casey Mittelstadt also scored and Viktor Arvidsson and Fraser Minten dished out two assists apiece to help Boston snap a 0-4-2 run.
Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman stopped 34 of the 36 shots he faced, backstopping a 5-for-5 penalty kill.
Zach Hyman and Jack Roslovic scored and Connor Ingram made 23 saves for Edmonton, which has lost two of its past three games.
Connor McDavid extended his point streak to 14 games (13 goals, 21 assists) with the primary helper on Hyman’s goal.
The Bruins built an early 6-1 edge in shots on the strength of their power play. Seconds after a 5-on-3 power because a 5-on-4 edge, Pastrnak put Boston up 1-0 when he took the carom off the end wall and banked in a shot off Ingram’s pad from the goal line at 7:28.
Swayman sprawled out to save a McDavid breakaway with 6:02 left in the first. The Bruins goaltender also made multiple close-range stops on the Edmonton captain during a kill that started less than a minute later.
Mittelstadt doubled the Boston lead with 1:47 left before the first intermission, taking Arvidsson’s drop feed entering the zone and ripping home a short-side shot from the left dot.
The hosts clawed back at 2-1 as McDavid weaved through the defense and dished a backhand feed for Hyman to one-time by Swayman with 40.2 seconds to go in the period.
Arvidsson started the play that led to Hampus Lindholm’s goal at 7:05 of the second. After Arvidsson brought the puck over the line and fed it back to Fraser Minten, the defenseman got the puck and fired a high shot past Ingram from the left side just after a power play expired.
The Boston lead grew to three with 1:41 left in the middle frame, as Aspirot forced a turnover in the defensive zone before jumping up and burying a Pastrnak feed at the end of a rush.
Following Swayman’s stop of a Roslovic break-in off the third-period draw, Elias Lindholm continued the Bruins’ run with a snap shot that deflected in off Ingram at 4:20.
Roslovic did net a wrister from the left circle to make it 5-2 at 7:22.
Pastrnak scored off Minten’s one-time feed with 5:26 remaining.
–Field Level Media
