{"id":495744,"date":"2026-10-14T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495744\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:20:14","slug":"mcavoy-scores-in-season-debut-bruins-defeat-sharks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495744\/","title":{"rendered":"McAvoy scores in season debut, Bruins defeat Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jacob-trouba-8476885\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Trouba<\/a> tied the game 1-1 at 15:29. He one-timed a pass from Kiefer Sherwood past Swayman&#8217;s blocker two seconds after a power play expired.<\/p>\n<p>McAvoy put the Bruins back ahead 2-1 at 18:43. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jj-peterka-8482175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Peterka<\/a>\u00a0found a loose puck to the left of Askarov and passed to McAvoy, who tapped it past Askarov&#8217;s left pad as he was crashing the net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just fun to be playing again. That was nice (to score),&#8221; McAvoy said. &#8220;I thought that was a big boy shift, and we were trying to hold onto the puck. Just tried to break them down, and it was a great pass by JJ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stenberg tied the game 2-2 with a power-play goal at 5:48 of the second period. Celebrini waited in the right face-off circle before finding Stenberg at the back post for a tap-in past Swayman&#8217;s right leg.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first career goal for Stenberg, who was the No. 2 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just happy to get the first,&#8221; Stenberg said. &#8220;Good play from Mack, and yeah, nice to score a goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Trouba tied the game 1-1 at 15:29. He one-timed a pass from Kiefer Sherwood past Swayman&#8217;s blocker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-495744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}