The Boston Bruins recovered after a lackluster first period to change the game’s momentum and rallied to beat the New York Islanders, 5-2, at the TD Garden Tuesday night.
The comeback win saw the Bruins score five unanswered goals, net two power-play goals, kill off timely penalties and a solid performance of 33 saves from Joonas Korpisalo.
With the win, the Bruins are now 5-7-0 and 2-1-0 in their last three games.
Things did not get off to a great start for the Bruins who allowed two goals on three shots in the first five minutes of the game.
First, Jonathan Drouin sent a pass back to Bo Horvat at the top of the right-wing circle where he let a quick snap shot fly past Joonas Korpisalo’s stick just over a minute into the game. 1-0 Islanders.
Then at 4:52 on a delayed penalty, Mathew Barzal at the low left-wing circle fed a pass to Kyle Palmieri low in the opposite circle and unattended, he put a snap shot past Korpisalo. 2-0 Islanders.
Pavel Zacha found Elias Lindholm in the right-wing circle for a one-timer on the power play to cut into the Bruins’ deficit at 3:57 of the second period. 2-1 game.
Hampus Lindholm had Sorokin thinking he was going to shoot as he sent a hard pass to David Pastrnak who lifted a wrist shot past Sorokin. 2-2 game.
59 seconds later, Michael Eyssimont tipped in Charlie McAvoy’s shot to give the Bruins the lead. 3-2 Bruins.
Charlie McAvoy hit Morgan Geekie with a pass which he one-timed over Sorokin’s stick for the Bruins’ second power-play goal of the night. 4-2 Bruins.
Fraser Minten later scored an empty-net goal to cement the win. Final score: 5-2 Bruins.