BRUINS vs.

POST GAME NOTES

MILESTONES REACHED: • Tuukka Rask played in his 445th game as a Bruin tonight, passing Frank Brimsek and Ed Johnston (444 each) into second place on the team’s all-time games played by a goaltender.

WHO’S HOT: • Tuukka Rask extended his point streak to ten games at 9-0-1 with tonight’s 4-2 win. • has a goal and two assists tonight, giving him 1-4=5 totals in three games since missing 13 games with a broken foot ... He has 5-9=14 totals in eight of his last 12 games played. • David Pastrnak has a goal and an assist tonight, giving him 8-4=12 totals in seven of his last nine games with 11-10=21 totals in 11 of his last 15 contests ... With a fight tonight, he has his first career Gordie Howe hat trick and the third Howe of the season by a Bruin (McAvoy, Kuraly). • Brad Marchand has a goal and an assist tonight, giving him 3-6=9 totals in his last five straight games with 5-10=15 totals in seven of his last nine games and 10-16=26 totals in his last 17 contests. • Torey Krug has two assists tonight, giving him 1-8=9 totals in his last five straight games played (not an official streak, having missed one game with an injury) and 4-15=19 totals in his last 14 contests. • Tim Schaller has a goal tonight, giving him single goals each in two of his last four games. • Tommy Wingels has an assist tonight, snapping a nine game scoreless stretch since an assist on Mar. 8 vs. Philadelphia. • Tampa Bay’s Victor Hedman has a goal and an assist tonight, giving him 4-5=9 totals in six of his last eight games with 6-8=14 totals in his last 13 contests. • Tampa Bay’s J. T. Miller has a goal tonight, giving him 8-6=14 totals in his 14 Lightning games played. • Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov has an assist tonight, giving him 5-10=15 totals in ten of his last 12 games. • Tampa Bay’s Yanni Gourde has an assist tonight, giving him five assists in three of his last five games with 2-14=16 totals in his last 19 contests. • Tampa Bay’s Dan Girardi has an assist tonight, snapping a ten-game scoreless stretch since a goal March 3 vs. Philadelphia.

THIS AND THAT: • The Bruins have taken over the Atlantic Division lead with tonight’s win ... They now have 107 points to Tampa Bay’s 106 and also have a game in hand ... The Lightning had held the division lead since Oct. 19. • The Bruins opened three two-goal leads in tonight’s game ... It is the 37th time this season that they have held a two-or-more- goal lead in a game and they now have a 33-0-4 record in those games ... They are 254-15-15 since the start of the 2011-12 season in games in which they have held a two-goal lead in a game. • The Bruins opened their 14th of 16 sets of three games in four nights tonight ... They now have a 7-5-2 record in game ones, 8-3-2 in game twos and 10-2-1 in game threes of those sets this season.

SPECIAL TEAMS: • The Bruins went 1 for 3 (33.3%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 56 for 244 on the power play this season (23.0%) and they have allowed ten shorthanded goals. • The Lightning went 1 for 5 (20.0%) on the power play tonight ... They are now 64 for 260 on the power play this season (24.6%) and they have allowed three shorthanded goals. • The Bruins went 4 for 5 (80.0%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 191 for 231 overall on the penalty kill this season (82.7%) and they have scored nine shorthanded goals. • The Lightning went 2 for 3 (66.7%) on the penalty kill tonight ... They are now 192 for 253 on the penalty kill this season (75.9%) ... They have scored nine shorthanded goals.

ATTENDANCE: • Tonight’s attendance was a sellout figure of 17,565. • That extends the Bruins’ sellout streak at TD Garden to 376 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 Tampa Bay Lightning drew 16,553.

Thursday, March 29, 2018 ... TD Garden; Boston MA