Pastrnak had a goal and two assists and extended his point streak to 11 games (18 points; seven goals, 11 assists).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s our guy,\u201d Boston coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying he needs to deliver and be the difference and be the goal-scorer every night, but he needs to be the driver. I feel like when he does it, we all feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zacha also had an assist, and Viktor Arvidsson<\/a> and Casey Mittelstadt<\/a> also scored for the Bruins (40-24-8), who have won three of four. Joonas Korpisalo<\/a>\u00a0made 22 saves.<\/p>\n Boston holds the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference, three points ahead of the Ottawa Senators. Boston is tied in points with the Montreal Canadiens for third in the Atlantic Division but has played two more games.<\/p>\n \u201cJust a great effort,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cObviously we\u2019re very happy to grab those two points. Huge, huge points, but I liked the response even better (after a 4-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday). The guys, we were not happy, all of us. I would say we were tight in the first 10 minutes (against Buffalo) but after that I think we found our game.\u201d<\/p>\n Jason Zucker<\/a> scored twice and Tage Thompson<\/a>\u00a0had two assists for the Sabres (44-20-8). Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a>\u00a0made 27 saves.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think we were very good tonight. I don\u2019t think we played our game,\u201d Zucker said. \u201cI think we tried to be a little bit too fancy. We didn\u2019t keep it simple. It\u2019s nice to get a point out of it, especially when you\u2019re not at your best. It would\u2019ve been nice to defend the lead a little bit better than we did.\u201d<\/p>\n Buffalo, which leads the Atlantic, tied the Carolina Hurricanes for first place in the Eastern Conference. Carolina has a game in hand.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously it\u2019s a big point and could have been a big two points again,\u201d Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. \u201cCrazy bounce (on the Bruins\u2019 tying goal), but sometimes the crazy stuff happens to you when you don\u2019t play well. Even though we played a good third period, sometimes the payoff is something bad will happen to you and it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pastrnak had a goal and two assists and extended his point streak to 11 games (18 points; seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-565187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565187","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=565187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}