Pastrnak has a 3-point night in the Bruins’ 3-1 victory

WASHINGTON (AP) — David Pastrnak had a purpose and two assists and Jeremy Swayman made 35 saves within the Boston Bruins’ 3-1 victory over Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night time.

Pastrnak scored within the second interval and Elias Lindholm added a purpose at 7:41 of the third — simply 38 seconds after Tom Wilson had tied it at 1 for Washington.

Morgan Geekie scored into an empty web with 57.1 seconds remaining.

The Bruins made Marco Sturm a winner in his first sport as coach, killing off all 5 of Washington’s energy performs. That included a two-man benefit that lasted almost a minute within the second.

The 40-year-old Ovechkin is within the remaining yr of his contract, and if this was his final season opener, at the least one goal-scoring document will elude him. He has 13 objectives in openers, however Michel Goulet and Dino Ciccarelli each had 14.

After breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL document late final season, Ovechkin entered 2025-26 with 897 profession objectives. He had three pictures on purpose Wednesday however couldn’t beat Swayman. After coping with a preseason damage final month, Ovechkin sometimes got here off the ice throughout energy performs as an alternative of staying on with each items.

Swayman stopped Nic Dowd on a semi-breakaway within the second after a poor line change by Boston. Then Washington goalie Logan Thompson returned the favor with a save on Viktor Arvidsson’s breakaway. Pastrnak opened the scoring when his wrist shot from simply contained in the blue line made it by means of visitors and previous Thompson.

Wilson tied it from simply to the proper of the slot, however after a holding penalty on Washington’s John Carlson, Lindholm lifted a backhand over Thompson to place Boston again forward.

Bruins: Host Chicago on Thursday night time.

Capitals: On the New York Islanders on Saturday night time.