The second line of Casey Mittelstadt, Pavel Zacha and Viktor Arvidsson continued its dominance to close out the middle frame. The trio created chaos in front, and Arvidsson got a stick on the puck that floated in at 18:16 to make it 3-0. It was Arvidsson\u2019s 19th goal of the season, extending his point streak to four games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have fun together. We talk about stuff and joke about stuff on the bench, too. I think that\u2019s the most important thing. That creates chemistry,\u201d Arvidsson said. \u201cWe\u2019re just really connected, and know where each other are, and what the other guy likes to do. It\u2019s just a really good mix of speed, playmaking skills, and people going to the net, too. Being around there and wanting to score.\u201d<\/p>\n
They were back at it to open the third period, putting the Bruins ahead 4-0 at 3:15. This time, it was Zacha with the tally. Arvidsson ripped one from the point, and Mittelstadt collected the rebound and pushed it over to Zacha in the left circle, where he one-timed it in for his 23rd of the season \u2013 and fourth in three games.<\/p>\n
\u201cMittelstadt, I think he\u2019s doing a really good job winning his puck battles the last couple games and passing it to me there,\u201d Zacha said. \u201cHe looked at me a little bit when he got the puck and passed it to me. Great play from him.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n
Mittelstadt, Zacha and Arvidsson ended up with two points each on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u201cMissing the Olympics was something that was not the best mentally for me, but I was thinking about the whole break, \u2018How can I come back and be a difference-maker?\u2019\u201d Zacha said. \u201cJust focusing on the little things, winning the puck battles, being good on the face-off dot. I knew with our power play and our lines, we were going to have a good push here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan Toews got the Jets on the board with a power-play goal at 5:38. Pastrnak then picked up his second point of the night with a cross-crease pass to Fraser Minten, who knocked it in for the 5-1 scoreline and his 16th goal of the year. Jonathan Aspirot brought the game to its final 6-1 standing with a wrist shot at 18:18; Geekie and Reichel logged the assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is always fun to score goals. I was super excited about that,\u201d Aspirot said. \u201cI think we\u2019re just going game by game. Try not to think about that too much, and just do our group and what we can control. Got to win every game, and have some fun doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bruins now hit the road for Saturday\u2019s matchup against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second line of Casey Mittelstadt, Pavel Zacha and Viktor Arvidsson continued its dominance to close out the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-548563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548563","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=548563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}