Bruins beat Maple Leafs; Pastrnak hits 400-goal milestone

BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored twice to maneuver previous 400 targets for his profession, and added an help, because the Boston Bruins received their seventh consecutive sport, 5-3 over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday evening.

Pavel Zacha, Hampus Lindholm and Alex Steeves additionally scored for the Bruins whereas Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves. Charlie McAvoy had a pair of assists.

Steven Lorentz had a short-handed purpose for the Maple Leafs, who’ve misplaced three in a row. Bobby McMann and Oliver Ekman-Larsson additionally scored for Toronto.

Pastrnak’s purpose 49 seconds into the second interval was the four-hundredth of his profession and gave the Bruins a 4-1 lead. He added a power-play purpose at 9:48 of the third. He’s the sixth participant to attain 400 or extra targets in a Bruins jersey, and is now one purpose behind fifth-place Rick Middleton.

Steeves’ purpose was his first as a Bruin after 4 years within the Toronto group.

Excessive-scoring Toronto ahead Auston Matthews didn’t return for the third interval with a lower-body damage.

Anthony Stolarz began in purpose for Toronto and gave up three first-period targets on 11 photographs and was changed for the second interval by Dennis Hildeby, who had 19 stops. The workforce mentioned Stolarz has an upper-body damage.

With an help on McMann’s power-play purpose with 1:02 to play within the second interval, Morgan Rielly handed Tomas Kaberle for sixth on Toronto’s profession help record with 438, second amongst defenseman.

Up subsequent

Maple Leafs: Return house to play the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday evening.

Bruins: Go to the Ottawa Senators on Thursday evening.