{"id":438747,"date":"2026-01-31T22:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438747\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:38:56","slug":"boston-bruins-win-overtime-thriller-against-nashville-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438747\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Win Overtime Thriller Against Nashville Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Pastrnak scored 15 seconds into overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pastrnak tipped a pass from Charlie McAvoy past Juuse Saros for the winner as the Bruins held on after Nashville rallied from a 2-0 deficit to force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Pastrnak scored his 22nd goal and had an assist, extending his point streak to eight games one night after becoming the sixth Boston player to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bruins-pastrnak-5690e0c1df501ae7dff9025ddda1a41c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reach 900 career points<\/a>. Pastrnak has 10 assists in his last six games.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Geekie scored his 30th of the season and Hampus Lindholm also scored for Boston after being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sweden-olympics-injury-replacements-04c292bb8a39f5193fbc720ce1d768e4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added to Sweden\u2019s Olympic roster<\/a>\u00a0earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Swayman stopped 28 shots for the Bruins, who improved to 8-1-1 in their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Josi and Nick Blankenburg scored for Nashville, which has lost four of five since a three-game winning streak. Steven Stamkos had an assist and Saros finished with 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Blankenburg\u2019s goal at 13:17 tied it and ended up forcing the overtime, which didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins, who were coming off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bruins-rangers-score-quick-f89f634cc1abdebf15181026a15c490f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 4-3 overtime loss<\/a>\u00a0at the New York Rangers on Monday night, improved to 5-2-0 in the second of back-to-back games.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville\u2019s Fedor Svechkov took a hard hit from Lindholm late in the first and needed a few minutes before getting up and slowly making his way to the bench late in the first. He did not return with what the Predators described as an upper-body injury. Lindholm was called for interference on the play.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Predators visit the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bruins host the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEZQFM.png\" alt=\"92.9 The Ticket logo\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Pastrnak scored 15 seconds into overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[95,5772,5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-438747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-boston-bruins","9":"tag-boston-sports","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nashville","12":"tag-nashville-predators","13":"tag-nashvillepredators","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115992118639734460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}