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BRUINS vs. PANTHERS

POST GAME NOTES

MILESTONES REACHED: • David Pastrnak had an assist tonight for his 200th NHL point. • Florida’s played in his 300th NHL game today.

WHO’S HOT: • Tuukka Rask extended his point streak to 11 games at 10-0-1 with tonight’s 5-1 win. • Jake DeBrusk had two goals and an assist tonight in his first game after missing eight games with an upper body injury ... He has 4-8=13 totals in seven of his last nine games played. • David Krejci had three assists tonight, giving him 3-6=9 totals in six of his last 12 games. • Ryan Donato had a and an assist tonight, giving him 4-3=7 totals in four of his seven NHL games played. • Nick Holden scored his first goal as a Bruin tonight, snapping a ten-game scoreless stretch after recording assists in each of his first four games with Boston. • had a goal tonight, giving him 2-4=6 totals in two of his last three games since returning to the lineup from missing 13 games with a fractured foot ... He has 7-9=16 totals in his last 13 games played. • David Pastrnak had an assist tonight, giving him 8-5=13 totals in eight of his last ten games with 11-11=22 totals in 12 of his last 16 contests. • David Backes had an assist tonight, giving him 1-1=2 totals in two of his last three games. • Kevan Miller had an assist tonight, giving him single assists each in three of his last seven games. • Matt Grzelcyk had an assist tonight, snapping an eight-game scoreless stretch since 1-1=2 totals on Mar. 13 at Carolina. • Florida’s Jamie McGinn had a goal tonight, giving him 3-4=7 totals in five of his last seven games. • Florida’s had an assist tonight, giving him 1-5=6 totals in his last five straight games with 2-15=17 totals in 11 of his last 16 contests. • Florida’s had an assist tonight, giving him 2-3=5 totals in three of his last five games with 6-8=14 totals in his last 14 contests.

THIS AND THAT: • The Bruins have moved back into first place in the division and have clinched home ice in at least the first round of the playoffs with tonight’s 5-1 win and 109 points ... The Maple Leafs can also max out at 109 points but would lose on the tiebreaker, as they can only compile 44 regulation/ wins (Boston has 46). • The Bruins are playing their 14th of 15 sets of back-to-back games this season ... They now have a 10-3-1 record in game ones and a 6-5-2 mark in game twos of those series. • The Bruins are playing their 14th and 15th of 16 sets of three games in four nights tonight ... They have an 8-5-2 record in game ones, 9-3-2 in game twos and 10-2-1 in game threes of those sets this season. • The Bruins played today their tenth of 11 afternoon games on this season’s schedule and they now have a 6-3-1 record in matinees this season. • The Bruins scored five unanswered goals tonight after giving up the first tally ... It is the 38th time this season that they have held a two-or-more-goal lead in a game and they now have a 34-0-4 record in those games ... They are 255-15-15 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 161-1-4 when they have led by three-or-more goals in a game.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 1 for 1 (100.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 57 for 245 on the power play this season (23.3%) and they have allowed ten shorthanded goals. • The Panthers went 0 for 2 (0.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 45 for 238 on the power play this season (18.9%) and they have allowed five shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 2 for 2 (100.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 192 for 232 overall on the penalty kill this season (82.8%) and they have scored nine shorthanded goals. • The Panthers went 0 for 1 (0.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 176 for 218 on the penalty kill this season (80.7%) ... They have scored ten shorthanded goals.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 377 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.

Saturday, March 31, 2018 ... TD Garden; Boston MA