{"id":401458,"date":"2026-01-10T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:51:07","slug":"khusnutdinov-scores-4-zacha-gets-3-for-1st-nhl-hat-tricks-bruins-ease-past-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401458\/","title":{"rendered":"Khusnutdinov scores 4, Zacha gets 3 for 1st NHL hat tricks, Bruins ease past Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Pastrnak<\/a> tied a team record with six assists for the Bruins (24-19-2), who have won four of their past five. Fraser Minten<\/a> scored twice and had an assist, Charlie McAvoy<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Jeremy Swayman<\/a> made 27 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a fun afternoon,\u201d Pastrnak said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have games like this often, so it was fun night, a great win, turn the page and focus on (Sunday against the Penguins).\u201d<\/p>\n

Bruins forward Morgan Geekie<\/a> left the game after the first period to attend to a family matter. Coach Marco Sturm said it was a family emergency and Geekie is questionable for Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Mika Zibanejad<\/a> and J.T. Miller<\/a> scored for the Rangers (20-20-6). Jonathan Quick<\/a> made 14 saves on 20 shots before being replaced by Spencer Martin<\/a> (10 saves) at 11:26 of the second period.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmbarrassing,\u201d Zibanejad said. \u201cAny time you lose a game 10-2 it\u2019s embarrassing. I don\u2019t know what else to say, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Rangers coach Mike Sullivan: \u201cObviously, no one wants to go through a humbling experience like we just did. These guys care about what\u2019s going on and it\u2019s not easy when you don\u2019t have success, or don\u2019t live up to expectations. When that doesn\u2019t happen, everyone feels it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to sit here and point fingers on why we\u2019re at where we\u2019re at. Where we\u2019re at is because of all of us and we\u2019ve got to figure out the solutions to try to get back on the right track and give ourselves a chance. Here\u2019s what I know: We\u2019re a way better team than we put on the ice today, and for whatever reason, it was a struggle. I don\u2019t have the answers on why, but we\u2019ll work with the players, we\u2019ll dig in and we\u2019ll find a way to play to the level we think we\u2019re capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zibanejad gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead at 1:24 of the first period. Artemi Panarin<\/a> retrieved a rebound after Matthew Robertson<\/a>\u2019s shot from the point and set up Zibanejad\u2019s one-timer from the right circle, beating Swayman short side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were ready from the start, which was the biggest thing I saw from the team today,\u201d Zacha said. \u201cIt was great to see everyone was ready from the beginning even when we got scored on, and the response we had today was big and that\u2019s how you win games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khusnutdinov tied it 1-1 at 2:31. Pastrnak banked a pass off the boards in the defensive zone to Khusnutdinov, who used a burst of speed to skate around Rangers defenseman Braden Schneider<\/a> in the neutral zone, broke in alone and beat Quick with a wrist shot from the slot to the stick side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know he\u2019s a great goal-scorer, but every year he\u2019s getting better and better at making plays,\u201d Zacha said. \u201cIt was a great game for him and every assist was deserved. He made great plays, strong plays in the offensive zone, won a lot of puck battles and that\u2019s the player he is and happy to be on the team with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zacha gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead at 7:16. He collected a turnover at the offensive blue line, skated around defenseman Will Borgen<\/a>, who lost an edge and fell, and beat Quick with a wrister from the left circle to top right corner.<\/p>\n

It appeared the opening period ended, but video review determined the Bruins scored a 5-on-3 power-play goal when Zacha pushed the puck over the goal line with 33 seconds remaining to push Boston\u2019s lead to 3-1. The teams had left the ice and came back out to finish the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Pastrnak tied a team record with six assists for the Bruins (24-19-2), who have won four of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-401458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}