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POST-GAME NOTES

MILESTONES REACHED: • Anders Bjork and Jake DeBrusk are playing their first NHL games tonight. • DeBrusk and Charlie McAvoy scored their first NHL goals tonight ... Per Elias, the last time two Bruins scored their first NHL goals in their first regular season games was on February 13, 1949 when Zellio Toppazzini and Dave Creighton did so vs. the NY Rangers. • Bjork recor Jake DeBrusk scored his first NHL tonight.

WHO’S HOT: • David Krejci recorded his first points of the season tonight with assists on all three Boston goals ... That ties his previous career-high for assists in a game, done eight times previously. • Charlie McAvoy, playing in his first NHL regular season game, earned his first career regular season point with an assist on Pastrnak’s goal and scored his first NHL tally in the second period for his first career multiple-point game. • David Pastrnak scored his first goal of the season tonight with Boston’s first goal of the 2017-18 season ... It came on a Boston five-on-three in the first period. • Jake DeBrusk scored his first NHL goal tonight, becoming the first Bruin to score in his first NHL game since Frank Vatrano on Nov. 7, 2015 ... He added an assist on McAvoy’s goal for his first career multiple-point game. • scored his first goal of the season tonight with his 23rd career shorthanded goal, which ranks third all-time on the club’s list. • Anders Bjork recorded his first NHL point with an assist on DeBrusk’s tally. • recorded his first point of the season tonight with an assist on Marchand’s shorthanded tally. • Nashville’s scored Nashville’s first goal of the 2016-17 season and added an assist on Hartnell’s tally.. • Nashville’s recorded his first points of the season with two assists.. • Nashville’s scored his first goal of the season tonight. • Nashville’s scored his first goal of the season tonight.

THIS AND THAT: • With tonight’s 4-3 win, the Bruins now have an all-time record of 40-37-16 in season opening games with a 48-23-20-1 mark in home openers. • Adam McQuaid and Cody McLeod engaged in each team’s first fight of the season at 10:56 of the first period ... The Bruins have a 108-57-12 record since the 2011-12 season in games in which they have had a fighting major ... McLeod led the NHL last season with 19 fighting majors.

WO-GOAL LEADS: • The Bruins held a 4-1 lead in tonight’s game en route to their 4-3 win ... They are now 222-15-11 since the start of the 2011- 12 season in games in which they have held a two-goal lead in a game and that extends to 139-1-3 when they have led by three-or-more goals in a game.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 1 for 5 (20.0%) on the power play tonight ... They have not yet allowed a shorthanded goal. • The Predators went 2 for 7 (28.6%) on the power play tonight ... They have allowed one shorthanded goal. • The Bruins went 5 for 7 (71.4%) on the kill tonight ... They have scored one shorthanded goal. • The Predators went 4 for 5 (80.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They have not yet scored a shorthanded goals.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 339 straight regular season and playoff games starting on Dec. 5, 2009 vs. . • Their last non-sellout game at TD Garden was on Dec. 2, 2009 when a Wednesday game vs. the drew 16, 553.

Thursday, October 5, 2017 ... TD Garden; Boston MA