BOSTON — When Alex Steeves went to the Bruins bench with blood on his nose, the score was tied.
He barely had time to stop bleeding by the time Boston made it 3-0.
The referees gave Tomas Hertl a four-minute high-sticking penalty for the play, but he served less than a minute of it.
Charlie McAvoy smoked a slap shot by Akira Schmid 10 seconds into the first penalty to make it 1-0 with 10:48 left in the first, shrinking Hertl’s sentence to two more minutes. But 30 seconds later, Elias Lindholm converted on the power play again to release Hertl and make it 2-0.
The Bruins kept attacking at even strength. Just 24 seconds after Lindholm and 54 after McAvoy, Tanner Jeannot beat Schmid to make it 3-0.
While the three goals were quick, they didn’t approach the record for the fastest three goals in a game.
That record belongs to the eventual Stanley Cup-winning 1970-71 Bruins. On Feb. 25 against Vancouver, Johnny Bucyk, Ed Westfall and Teddy Green scored three times in 20 seconds in an 8-2 win over the Canucks.