LOS ANGELES \u2013\u2013 David Pastrnak described it as a calm confidence.\u200b<\/p>\n
His team, once again, was behind while on the road. This time, it was during the second game of a back-to-back. But trailing the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 on Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena was no reason to worry for the Boston Bruins. They turned things around, putting up a 4-1 victory, extending their win streak to five games and sweeping the California portion of the road trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are comfortable playing in those tight games. Obviously we are a little bit more mature than last year, even though we have more younger guys, but they\u2019ve been playing really well. They came up big for us many times. It\u2019s just a certain calmness in the group,\u201d Pastrnak said. \u201cI think the calmness and the inside confidence, the healthy confidence \u2013 we know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kings grabbed the 1-0 lead just 31 seconds into the first with a wrister from Alex Laferriere, but the Bruins settled as the period went on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey got one really early, but I feel like we\u2019re really confident in our team game, and there\u2019s plenty of time left,\u201d Matt Poitras said. \u201cKind of sticking with that and getting rewarded with it. Feels good to get another win on this road trip.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pastrnak tied things up with his fourth goal of the season \u2013 and ninth point in five games. Pressure from Hampus Lindholm down low forced a Kings turnover. Pastrnak won the footrace to the loose puck in the neutral zone, zipped towards the opposing net and released a snapshot for the 1-1 equalizer at 2:43.<\/p>\n
The captain was without his usual center on Saturday. Pavel Zacha sat out of the game with an upper-body injury. He is day-to-day, Sturm said. Fraser Minten moved up to the pivot position on the first line, while Poitras shifted to the second and Sean Kuraly slotted in on the fourth. It was Kuraly\u2019s first game since Oct. 3; he was reunited with Tanner Jeannot and Mark Kastelic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you gain some perspective from being out. Obviously, it was kind of the first time in my career I have seen something like that. So always trying to learn and get better. That\u2019s what I spent the last week or so doing \u2013 just trying to get better and prepare for this moment,\u201d Kuraly said. \u201cIt was nice to be back out there with the guys. It feels a lot more comfortable, and just a fun situation to be part of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013\u2013 David Pastrnak described it as a calm confidence.\u200b His team, once again, was behind while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-499932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499932","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=499932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}