Pastrnak scores twice, hits 400-goal milestone as Bruins beat Maple Leafs

David Pastrnak scored doubly to determination past 400 goals for his career, and added an assist, arsenic the Boston Bruins won their seventh consecutive game, 5-3 implicit the Toronto Maple Leafs

BOSTON -- David Pastrnak scored doubly to determination past 400 goals for his career, and added an assist, arsenic the Boston Bruins won their seventh consecutive game, 5-3 implicit the Toronto Maple Leafs connected Tuesday night.

Pavel Zacha, Hampus Lindholm and Alex Steeves besides scored for the Bruins portion Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves. Charlie McAvoy had a brace of assists.

Steven Lorentz had a short-handed extremity for the Maple Leafs, who person mislaid 3 successful a row. Bobby McMann and Oliver Ekman-Larsson besides scored for Toronto.

Pastrnak's extremity 49 seconds into the 2nd play was the 400th of his vocation and gave the Bruins a 4-1 lead. He added a power-play extremity astatine 9:48 of the third. He is the sixth subordinate to people 400 oregon much goals successful a Bruins jersey, and is present 1 extremity down fifth-place Rick Middleton.

Steeves' extremity was his archetypal arsenic a Bruin aft 4 years successful the Toronto organization.

High-scoring Toronto guardant Auston Matthews did not instrumentality for the 3rd play with a lower-body injury.

Anthony Stolarz started successful extremity for Toronto and gave up 3 first-period goals connected 11 shots and was replaced for the 2nd play by Dennis Hildeby, who had 19 stops. The squad said Stolarz has an upper-body injury.

With an assistance connected McMann’s power-play extremity with 1:02 to play successful the 2nd period, Morgan Rielly passed Tomas Kaberle for sixth connected Toronto's vocation assistance database with 438, 2nd among defensemen.

Maple Leafs: Return location to play the Los Angeles Kings connected Thursday night.

Bruins: Visit the Ottawa Senators connected Thursday night.

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