EDMONTON \u2013\u2013 The Boston Bruins rang in the New Year on a high note.<\/p>\n
2026 started with a 6-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday at Rogers Place. It snapped the B\u2019s six-game losing streak, fueled by a three-point showing from David Pastrnak and a 34-save performance from Jeremy Swayman.<\/p>\n
Special teams also came up strong for the Bruins, who went 5-for-5 on the penalty kill and scored a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeels really good. I think everyone is sick of losing,\u201d head coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cI am just proud of the way we played today and the way we came out. I don\u2019t think a lot of people thought we [could] grab two points here tonight, but we did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pastrnak scored his second goal in three games \u2013 and 16th of the season \u2013 to put the Bruins up 1-0 at 7:28 of the first period while on the power play. Charlie McAvoy released a shot from the high slot, and Pastrnak picked up the rebound from the end boards and banked it off Edmonton netminder Connor Ingram.<\/p>\n
The Bruins doubled their advantage when Casey Mittelstadt collected a feed from former Oiler Viktor Arvidsson and wristed it from the left circle. The forward\u2019s ninth goal of the year made it 2-0 at 18:13.\u200b<\/p>\n
Edmonton got on the board in the last 41 seconds of the period, with a tally from Zach Hyman to cut it to 2-1 ahead of the middle frame. Hampus Lindholm, though, regained the B\u2019s two-goal lead in the second.<\/p>\n
Arvidsson carried the puck into the zone and dropped it to Fraser Minten, who found Lindholm on the left side. The defenseman lasered it from the wall for the 3-1 lift at 7:05, and his third goal of the season. It marked Arvidsson\u2019s second assist of the night; it was his second two-point showing of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cNice to get a win here to end the year. We\u2019ve got to just keep going in 2026 and keep building off this game,\u201d Arvidsson said. \u201cI think everybody in here played [the Oilers] enough \u2013 they\u2019re not going away. They\u2019re going to push; their offensive talent is out of this world. I think we just had to stay on it and be on our game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013\u2013 The Boston Bruins rang in the New Year on a high note. 2026 started with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-384868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}