For the second straight game, the Bruins scored a momentum goal late in the second. After Lyon blocked Sean Kuraly’s initial shot on the rush, Tanner Jeannot tapped the rebound behind Lyon where it sat in the crease. Kastelic pounced, shoving it over the goal line with 20.6 seconds left to make it 3-1.

Morgan Geekie scored for the sixth straight game, David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist and Mark Kastelic also scored for Boston. Joonas Korpisalo made 37 saves as the Bruins won for the third time in four games. Khusnutdinov scored on a wrister from the right circle, slipping the puck inside the right post.

Despite the Hurricanes’ rally, the Bruins stayed in command the rest of the game. They did not stray from their structure. Their forecheck arrived on time. They limited Carolina’s center-ice speed. In the defensive zone, the Bruins reduced the Hurricanes’ time up high with smothering man-to-man coverage. Around the net, the Bruins had layers.

The Bruins scored the first goal of the game but never got on the board again and fell to the Avalanche, 4-1, Saturday, in Denver. They fell to 3-3-0 after opening 3-0. They’ll try to reverse course on Sunday when they travel to Salt Lake City to face the Utah Mammoth.

Outshot and outplayed much of the night — normally a sure way to loose — the Bruins pinned a 4-3 overtime loss on the Sabres Thursday night at the Garden for their third win in four games.

Boston Bruins winger Viktor Arvidsson was a bit candid after scoring his first goal with his new team following a trade this past summer.

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This time, with the Bruins coming off a blowout loss the night before, after which their coach questioned the team’s buy-in, was all the more inexcusable as the Islanders frittered away a strong

David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist to help the Boston Bruins rally for a 5-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Tuesday night.