Five different players scored a goal on Monday night, and Patrice Bergeron recorded his 1,000th career point as the Boston Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3 at Amalie Arena in Tampa Bay.
Nicholas Paul and David Krejci exchanged goals in the first period and it was tied at 1-1 through 20 minutes, before Boston opened it up by scoring three goals in a span of 10:01 in the second. Nick Foligno scored on the powerplay at 5:07, Charlie Coyle tallied 31 seconds later, and then Brad Marchand made it 4-1 at 15:08. Bergeron got an assist on the Marchand goal for his 1,000th point on what turned out to be the game winning tally. Bergeron now has 409 goals and 591 assists in 1,235 career games. David Pastrnak scored on the powerplay at 3:51 of the third period to end the scoring for the Bruins. Rudolfs Balcers and Paul scored for Tampa as well in the third, but it was too little too late.
Krejci had a goal and an assist, while Jake Debrusk and Charlie McAvoy had two assists each to lead Boston to their seventh straight win. Linus Ullmark made 32 saves in net. Bergeron is only the fourth Bruins player to reach 1,000 points- Ray Bourque (1,506), Johnny Bucyk (1,339), and Phil Esposito (1,012) were the others. Paul had two goals and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves in the loss for Tampa Bay (11-7-1), who had their four game win streak snapped. Boston (17-2-0) stays in Florida and will battle the Panthers on Tuesday night.
