{"id":876093,"date":"2026-10-09T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:22:09","slug":"pastrnaks-first-two-goals-of-season-two-assists-help-bruins-cruise-past-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876093\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastrnak\u2019s first two goals of season, two assists help Bruins cruise past Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack McBain<\/a> scored for the Mammoth (3-2-0), who entered with the NHL\u2019s top-ranked power play (8-for-13, 61.5 percent) but went 0-for-7. Sebastian Cossa<\/a> allowed three goals on eight shots before being relieved by Karel Vejmelka<\/a>, who made 11 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously not good, not a good start,\u201d Utah captain Clayton Keller<\/a> said. \u201cWe hung Cossa out there to dry a little bit. Just learn from it, but we got embarrassed tonight. … It\u2019s pretty obvious what we have to do to not let it happen again. We weren\u2019t ready to go at the start. They were ready to play and we weren\u2019t. We made simple mistakes and we rolled over from there.<\/p>\n

The Bruins\u2019 sustained\u00a0forecheck led to their first goal when Casey Mittelstadt<\/a>\u00a0made it 1-0 at 10:06 of the first period. His wrist shot from the left face-off dot beat Cossa to the short side.<\/p>\n

Pastrnak\u2019s power-play goal gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead at 14:22. His quick wrist shot from the top of the right circle beat a screened Cossa through the five-hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get one goal and all of a sudden you feel it,\u201d Boston coach Marco Sturm said of\u00a0Pastrnak\u2019s performance. \u201cI\u2019m happy for him because he\u2019s excited and he\u2019s very honored, but there\u2019s also a little bit of pressure for having that \u2018C\u2019 on your jersey, so I\u2019m glad the (drought) is over. … It was a big night for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mason Lohrei<\/a> increased the margin to 3-0 at 15:51. He gained possession at the offensive blue line, broke down the right side and cut toward the net at the bottom of the circle before scoring with a quick wrist shot to the stick side.<\/p>\n

Vejmelka replaced Cossa following the goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just weren\u2019t connected,\u201d Keller said. \u201cIt just wasn\u2019t a good game, and on the PP as well. I don\u2019t know what it was tonight, but we\u2019ve got to flush it. We\u2019ll learn from tonight. It\u2019s not going to be smooth all year long. We\u2019re a confident group and we know how good we can be. We\u2019ll learn from tonight and we\u2019ll be ready to go against Buffalo (Saturday on the road).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pastrnak\u2019s second power-play goal made it 4-0 at 4:40 of the second period. His one-timer off a Geekie cross-ice saucer pass beat Vejmelka high glove.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of hockey. One night it doesn\u2019t go your way and the next night you\u2019re nearly perfect,\u201d\u00a0Pastrnak said of the Bruins power play. \u201cThat\u2019s the important thing to remember, what we\u2019ve done right. We know we\u2019re all good players and we proved it last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack McBain scored for the Mammoth (3-2-0), who entered with the NHL\u2019s top-ranked power play (8-for-13, 61.5 percent)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-876093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}