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Pastrnak scores the go-ahead goal on an assist from Marchand.
David Pastrnak scored the goal that put the Bruins on top. (0:28)
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David Pastrnak scored a tiebreaking power-play goal early in the third period to give the surging Boston Bruins a 3-2 win over the travel-weary Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.
Brad Marchand, Boston's leading scorer, returned to the lineup Saturday after leaving Thursday with an apparent right shoulder injury.
Marchand had been hit from behind into the boards by Washington's Garnet Hathaway, a check that Boston coach Bruce Cassidy called a "cheap" play. Marchand would be out for at least one game.
Cassidy said that Marchand was feeling better less than a day before the game. When he was announced in the starting lineup, he received a huge applause, and all was back to normal in Boston.
He said he didn't expect to play. I have to give a lot of credit to our training staff. I jumped on the ice. It will take a lot to sit out. You battle through it if you feel you can play. You don't want to let the guys down.
Marchand described the week as a little bit of a rush, but with the way the Bruins are playing that probably doesn't matter to the star forward. Boston is 10-2 since New Year's Day and has three players who scored. Tuukka Rask made 21 saves for Boston in his third start after re-signing this month.
Marchand mentioned in his postgame availability that fans and media don't always realize when NHL players are playing through many injuries during the course of a regular season.
He said it was just something you do.
The Jets played their seventh of eight games on the road to open the new year because of COVID-19-related postponements. The Jets'Connor Hellebuyck made 29 saves.
In the third period, with Adam Lowry off for interference, Pastrnak one-timed Matt Grzelcyk's pass into the net from the left circle for his 10th goal in the last 10 games.
The Jets had a 6-on-4 advantage for the final 1:27 of the game with their goalie pulled and Boston's Tomas Nosek off for high-sticking.
In the first period, Harkins' wrister from the left circle went off Rask's glove and into the net. The Bruins took the lead with 26 seconds left in the first after a cross-ice pass from Mark Scheifele hit the skate of Bruins defenseman Urhoakan Vaainen and caromed into the net.
Coyle tipped in Forbort's shot from the point to tie it at 2 early in the second.
There was some injury news for the Bruins, but they didn't have any more issues. Grzelcyk left after getting checked into the boards by Pierre-Luc Dubois in the first period but returned at the beginning of the second. As play continued, Grzelcyk went to the ice in pain and fell to the bench.
Cassidy said there was no structural damage or he wouldn't have gone out there.
The report was contributed to by the Associated Press.
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