\n\t\t\t\t\t\t Marat Khusnutdinov and Casey Mittelstadt scored less than a minute apart early in the first period and the Boston Bruins held on for a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night.Pittsburgh\u2019s Erik Karlsson scored just 42 seconds into the game, but Khusnutdinov tied it at 1-1 when he snapped the puck high inside the far post past Penguins goalie Stuart Skinner for his 13th goal of the season at 5:10 of the first.Mittelstadt added his 13th of the season 50 seconds later when he gathered in the rebound of Nikita Zadorov\u2019s shot and fired past a diving Skinner and into an open net. Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.Karlsson scored on the Penguins\u2019 first shot on goal after the Bruins had two excellent scoring chances in the first few seconds requiring solid saves by Skinner. The Bruins challenged for goalie interference but the goal was upheld. Skinner finished with 26 saves.The Bruins came in having lost three of their last four games \u2014 two in the shootout \u2014 but have now won 11 consecutive home games to remain in the hunt for a wild-card playoff spot.Charlie McAvoy\u2019s nine-game point streak came to end. The Olympian joined Ray Bourque as only the second Bruins defenseman in the last 40 years with a nine-game point streak.Up nextPenguins: Host Buffalo on Thursday night.Bruins: Visit Nashville on Thursday night.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Marat Khusnutdinov and Casey Mittelstadt scored less than a minute apart early in the first period and the Boston Bruins held on for a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh\u2019s Erik Karlsson scored just 42 seconds into the game, but Khusnutdinov tied it at 1-1 when he snapped the puck high inside the far post past Penguins goalie Stuart Skinner for his 13th goal of the season at 5:10 of the first.<\/p>\n
Mittelstadt added his 13th of the season 50 seconds later when he gathered in the rebound of Nikita Zadorov\u2019s shot and fired past a diving Skinner and into an open net. Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.<\/p>\n
Karlsson scored on the Penguins\u2019 first shot on goal after the Bruins had two excellent scoring chances in the first few seconds requiring solid saves by Skinner. The Bruins challenged for goalie interference but the goal was upheld. Skinner finished with 26 saves.<\/p>\n
The Bruins came in having lost three of their last four games \u2014 two in the shootout \u2014 but have now won 11 consecutive home games to remain in the hunt for a wild-card playoff spot.<\/p>\n
Charlie McAvoy\u2019s nine-game point streak came to end. The Olympian joined Ray Bourque as only the second Bruins defenseman in the last 40 years with a nine-game point streak.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Penguins: Host Buffalo on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Bruins: Visit Nashville on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marat Khusnutdinov and Casey Mittelstadt scored less than a minute apart early in the first period and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60014,894,34210,60012,27188,3618,60015,59019,60010,60011,60013,1902,73,75,74,1067,35496,3617,27149,3690],"class_list":["post-128992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-13th-goal","tag-allegheny-county","tag-bruins","tag-diving-skinner","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-game","tag-host-buffalo","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-khusnutdinov","tag-mittelstadt","tag-nine-game-point-streak","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-save","tag-season","tag-second","tag-thursday-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}