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Boston Bruins left wing Tanner Jeannot levels San Jose Sharks defenseman Darnell Nurse as the Bruins take on the Sharks. Stuart Cahill\/Boston Herald<\/p>\nTickets to see the Bruins play on Causeway Street can be pretty expensive, but the folks at the Garden got their money\u2019s worth on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Bruins lost two one-goal leads, fell behind by a goal, stormed back with three straight to take a two-goal lead before the Sharks cut it to one again. But the B\u2019s hung on to capture a wildly entertaining 6-4 victory. Fraser Minten got what proved to be the game-winner and Jeremy Swayman made 21 saves for the win.<\/p>\n
It was a crazy game and not perfect, but in a way it showed the growth that this team has made in a year. A year ago, this might have been one that got away from them.<\/p>\n
\u201cA hundred percent,\u201d said David Pastrnak, who had the tying goal in the third period. \u201cWe were down by a goal, we take the lead, stayed calm even though we had two penalty kills, we still stayed composed and got the lead before the end. It\u2019s impressive how much this group is sometimes at certain stages and it\u2019s fun to see. But we know we were far from our best.\u201d<\/p>\n
The third period itself was worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n
The Sharks broke a 2-2 tie and took their first lead of the game at 4:03 of the third. Elias Lindholm took a slashing penalty at the Boston blue line and the Sharks made the B\u2019s pay for the second time on the power play when Dmitry Orlov\u2019s long-distance slapper beat Swayman.<\/p>\n
But the B\u2019s would get it back. Pastrnak took a tripping call in the neutral zone and the B\u2019s killed it off, and as Pastrnak stepped out the box, JJ Peterka broke out of his zone. Peterka sent a cross-ice pass to Pastrnak on the right wing and Pastrnak buried his seventh of the year and 427th of his career at 8:27, tying him with Patrice Bergeron for third on the B\u2019s all-time goal list.<\/p>\n
Just 40 seconds later, the B\u2019s had the lead again when rookie James Hagens jammed home a loose puck for his fourth of the season.<\/p>\n
The Sharks\u2019 Nolan Allen took a double minor shortly after that and Minten gave the B\u2019s a two-goal lead when he cleaned up a rebound at 12:00.<\/p>\n
But the Sharks would not go away. Hagens took a penalty to nullify the second Allen penalty and Will Smith buried a wrister at 12:27 on the 4-on-4.<\/p>\n
Smith had a clean break-in after that but Swayman got his blocker on it to preserve the lead.<\/p>\n
Finally, Will Borgen scored an empty-netter from his own zone with 27.2 seconds left to seal it.<\/p>\n
This one had some buzz right from the get-go.<\/p>\n
Eleven days removed form the Bruins\u2019 6-3 win in San Jose, the two teams staged an entertaining, up-tempo first period.<\/p>\n
At first it looked like the B\u2019s were going to pick up where they left off from their 6-0 shellacking of the Nashville Predators when they took the first lead of the game at 3:08 on a dominant shift from the third line of Casey Mittelstadt, Lindholm and Hagens. Matched up against the Macklin Celebrini line, the B\u2019s trio pinned the Sharks\u2019 top line in their own zone for several scoring chances until a loose puck squirted out to Mittelstadt, who buried his fourth of the season past goalie Alex Nedeljkovic. It was also Mittelstadt\u2019s 100th career tally.<\/p>\n
But the Sharks, loaded with young talent, counter-punched well and pounced on mistakes. Minten\u2019s cross-ice pass out high in the San Jose zone was off the mark and bounced out to the neutral zone, giving Mason Marchment a breakaway. With Morgan Geekie in pursuit, Marchment got off a shot that Swyaman stopped but Geekie was called for a slash.<\/p>\n
Clicking at 25.7% on the power play coming into the game, the Sharks cashed in on the advantage. They tied it at 5:54 when Tyler Toffoli sent the puck down low to Adam Gaudette, who made a deft redirection of the puck to get it over to Michael Misa, who had an empty-net tap-in.<\/p>\n
Boston Bruins left wing Tanner Jeannot levels San Jose Sharks defenseman Darnell Nurse as the Bruins take on the Sharks. Stuart Cahill\/Boston Herald<\/p>\n
One of the many things the B\u2019s had going for them on Thursday was that they stayed disciplined and didn\u2019t give the Preds\u2019 strong power play any chances when it mattered.<\/p>\n
But the B\u2019s tempted fate once more before the period was out when Minten took an offensive zone tripping penalty. They managed to kill off that one, but the power play seemed to give the Sharks some momentum. The B\u2019s, who held a 12-11 shot advantage in the opening 20 minutes, were fortunate to get to the first intermission still tied.<\/p>\n
The B\u2019s got their first power play early in the second period but the only thing it produced was a nearly disastrous turnover by Frederic Brunet to Kiefer Sherwood. Swayman shut that chance down.<\/p>\n
Then the B\u2019s regained the lead on a tremendous shift by the Minten line that was not unlike the shift that produced the B\u2019s first goal. The B\u2019s won battles down low until Minten fed Geekie in the slot and Geekie in turn sent a backhand dish to Marat Khusnutdinov, who lifted a backhander over Nedeljkovic at 8:20.<\/p>\n
When the B\u2019s got their third PP of the period, Sherwood made the B\u2019s pay for their carelessness. The Shark picked off a Lindholm pass, broke in alone and this time he beat Swayman with a high wrister to even it up at 2-2 at 13:34.<\/p>\n
Things got rough at 15:37 when Mark Kastelic drilled Michael Kesselring into the boards. The Sharks were going to get a power play but Kesselring decided to go back at Kastelic and not only ate a few punches, but his actions wiped out what would have been a Sharks PP after he was called for roughing.<\/p>\n
The B\u2019s, who had an 11-6 shot advantage in the second, had numerous chances to get a third goal but several redirection attempts went wide and the game went into the third period all tied up.<\/p>\n
The beefs continued early in the third period when Tanner Jeannot buried Zach Ostapchuk with a hit. Ostapchuk went back at Jeannot to fight the big Bruin, which proved to be a thankless task as Jeannot gave him a good pummeling at 2:38.<\/p>\n
Jeannot tried to exhort the crowd as he made his way to the box but the game turned the wrong way for the B\u2019s after that. It would eventually swing back in the B\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n
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