CHICAGO (AP) — Brad Marchand and Morgan Geekie each scored two goals, and the Boston Bruins beat the struggling Chicago…
CHICAGO (AP) — Brad Marchand and Morgan Geekie each scored two goals, and the Boston Bruins beat the struggling Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Wednesday night.
Boston posted its third consecutive win — all in the past four days. It rallied for a 3-2 overtime victory against Detroit on Tuesday night.
Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman stopped 20 shots against Chicago.
Alex Vlasic and Jason Dickinson scored for the Blackhawks, who dropped their fourth consecutive game. Petr Mrazek made 23 saves.
The game was tied at 1 when Marchand got a cross-ice pass from David Pastrnak and beat Mrazek on a one-timer 2:58 into the second period. The captain then used his backhand to clean up a rebound at 5:03, giving Boston a 3-1 lead with his team-leading 10th goal of the season.
Pastrnak, Jordan Oesterle and Justin Brazeau each had two assists for Boston.
MAPLE LEAFS 3, PREDATORS 2
TORONTO (AP) — Auston Matthews scored twice early in the third period and Toronto erased an early deficit to win their third in a row, with a victory over Nashville.
William Nylander also scored for Toronto, which got 22 saves from Joseph Woll.
Mitch Marner chipped in three assists as the Leafs won for the 10th time in 12 games.
Jonathan Marchessault and Mark Jankowski scored for Nashville, which came in having lost three straight 3-2 overtime decisions. Juuse Saros stopped 25 shots for the Predators who have now lost five in a row.
Nashville opened the scoring in the first when Marchessault took advantage of a strange bounce before Matthews replied with goals 1:58 apart in the third to give him three in three games since returning from an upper-body injury that kept the captain out of the lineup nearly a month.
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