BOSTON \u2013\u2013 Viktor Arvidsson’s oldest daughter, Navy, turned five on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The dad, and Boston Bruins forward, celebrated the occasion by posting his fifth career hat trick that night at TD Garden in a 6-3 win over the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was pretty cool, I got a hat trick on her birthday,\u201d Arvidsson said. \u201cShe\u2019ll be happy, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arvidsson\u2019s three goals earned the Bruins their fourth consecutive win against top-ranked opponents and extended his point streak to four games; he has nine points (five goals, four assists) through that stretch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we have fun together, and we put a lot of emphasis on being hard on each other, really pushing each other,\u201d Arvidsson said. \u201cI think in that regard, we\u2019re really happy where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bruins got out to a 2-0 lead by the end of the first period. Marat Khusnutdinov opened the scoring with his 15th goal of the season. David Pastrnak got the puck down low and chipped it up to Henri Jokiharju, who blasted a shot from the point. Khusnutdinov was there to knock in the rebound at 9:58.\u200b<\/p>\n
Arvidsson doubled the advantage just as the B\u2019s power play expired. Pavel Zacha threw the puck on net, Pastrnak collected the redirection and pushed it towards the crease where Arvidsson battled for positioning and tapped it in at 18:51 to make it 2-0. Zacha\u2019s helper on the play extended his point streak to five games; he has five goals and four assists in that time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt always seems like we play better when we\u2019re playing against better teams. For us, the playoffs already started a long time ago,\u201d head coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cI think that\u2019s a good thing about our team right now \u2013 we want to get challenged right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u200bDallas got on the board in the middle frame with a wrist shot from Jamie Benn at 4:49. Matt Duchene found the 2-2 equalizer at 16:53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2013\u2013 Viktor Arvidsson’s oldest daughter, Navy, turned five on Tuesday. The dad, and Boston Bruins forward, celebrated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-229735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}