BOSTON – Charlie McAvoy celebrated his 20th birthday by scoring the decisive goal in the shootout, Tuukka Rask made 37 saves and the Boston Bruins beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Thursday night.
After Winnipeg’s Nikolaj Ehlers’ first attempt of the sudden-death portion of the shootout clanged off the post, McAvoy took the puck and meandered up the ice before firing his shot past Connor Hellebuyck.
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Torey Krug scored his sixth goal of the season for Boston (18-10-5), which won its third straight game and sixth of its last seven.
Rask recorded a point for his eighth straight game (7-0-1) as the Bruins beat the Jets for the fourth straight meeting.
Patrik Laine scored his team-leading 18th goal for the Jets. Hellebuyck had 32 saves.
Winnipeg (20-10-6) had its two-game winning streak snapped. The Jets have only won once in Boston since the franchise relocated to Winnipeg in 2011.
Two goals less than a minute apart midway in the third period accounted for the only action through 65 minutes.
Rask and Hellebuyck matched each other before Krug’s wrister from the point beat Hellebuyck glove-side with 11:44 remaining.
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Laine answered just 57 seconds later, rifling a wrist shot past an out-of-position Rask off a feed from Ehlers.
NOTES: Boston C David Krejci (upper body) was placed on injured reserve Thursday before missing his third straight game… Bruins LW Brad Marchand, C Riley Nash and C Ryan Spooner didn’t participate in the morning skate because of illness and were game-timedecisions. Marchand played while Nash and Spooner sat… Winnipeg coach Paul Mariner coached his 1,401st NHL game, tying him with Ron Wilson for eighth-most in league history…Boston recalled 22-year-old C Colby Cave on an emergency basis before the game. Cave received an interference penalty 1:11 into his NHL debut… Bruins D Adam McQuaid (broken right fibula) could return Saturday after missing 27 games… Jets captain and RW Blake Wheeler spent his first two-plus NHL seasons with Boston…Hellebuyck played in college at nearby UMass-Lowell.
UP NEXT
Jets: At the New York Islanders on Saturday.
Bruins: Host Detroit on Saturday.
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