David Pastrnak scored his league leading 27th and 28th goal including the game winner on the powerplay in the second period Saturday night, as the Boston Bruins ended a five game winless streak (0-4-1) with a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida.
Jake Debrusk opened the scoring in the first with a nifty goal for his 100th NHL point of his career. Debrusk poked the puck into the zone at the Florida blue line, and after a mishandle by a Panthers defenseman Debrusk followed it and broke it on Sergei Bobrovsky, flipping it over the goalie who attempted a poke check to make it 1-0 at 14:41. The Bruins (21-7-6) got a pair in the second to take a 3-0 lead. David Krejci got his eight of the year at 3:14. Brad Marchand spun along the right wing boards and led a pass on to Krejci who one timed it in from just inside the right point. Pastrnak scored the game winner at 7:30 on the man advantage, tipping home a shot in front off a Marchand wrister from the left faceoff dots.
Mark Pysyk and Keith Yandle scored for Florida (15-12-5) at 2:46 and 9:13 of the third to make it a one goal game. Pysyk collected a rebound in front of Boston goalie Jaroslav Halak and scored on the backhand, while Yandles goal was a blast of a slapshot that bounced off the far post and went in. Pastrnaks second of the night into an empty net with 2:10 left sealed it. Halak made 31 saves in the win, while Bobrovsky stopped 38 in a loss. Pastrnak, Marchand, Krejci, and Debrusk all had two points on the night in the Bruins victory. Boston was 1-3 on the powerplay, while Florida went 0-3. The black and gold head back to Boston to open up a four game homestand, beginning with a matchup with the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
