Bruins hold on to knock off Predators on opening night

October 5, 2017

 

Brad Marchand scored the game winner, and three other skaters notched goals as the Boston Bruins opened their season with a 4-3 win over the Nashville Predators at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday night.

David Pastrnak scored a first period powerplay goal, and rookies Jake Debrusk and Charlie McAvoy scored the first goals of their career in the second to give the Bruins a 3-1 lead after 40 minutes.

Marchand scored with 2:53 left in the game to make it 4-1 Boston, before powerplay goals by Scott Hartnell at 18:12  and Filip Forsberg at 19:25 brought the Preds within a goal, but it wasn’t enough.

David Krejci had three assists, and Tuuka Rask made 25 saves on 28 shots. Nashville was 2-7 on the powerplay, while Boston was 1-5.  Boston hosts Colorado on Monday at 1 p.m.