{"id":534898,"date":"2026-04-01T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534898\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:27:14","slug":"viktor-arvidssons-hat-trick-propels-bruins-to-huge-win-over-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534898\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Arvidsson&#8217;s Hat Trick Propels Bruins To Huge Win Over Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> picked up a huge 6-3 home win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Boston was led by Viktor Arvidsson, who recorded a hat trick as part of a third-period surge. The Bruins were up 2-0 after the first period, but Dallas scored twice in the second to enter the third period tied.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, in the third, Boston scored three-straight, before Wyatt Johnston made it 5-3, before Arvidsson scored an empty netter for his hat trick, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/video\/locker-room-raw-arvidsson-jokiharju-and-korpisalo-6392311732112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who credits the team having fun<\/a> for their success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have fun together, and we put a lot of emphasis on being hard on each other, really pushing each other,\u201d Arvidsson said on Tuesday as seen on NESN&#8217;s postgame coverage. \u201cI think in that regard, we\u2019re really happy where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruins head coach Marco Sturm, meanwhile, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/video\/press-room-marco-sturm-6392312120112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is pleased with how <\/a>the team is playing down the stretch run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt always seems like we play better when we\u2019re playing against better teams,\u201d Sturm said. \u201cFor us, the playoffs already started a long time ago. I think that\u2019s a good thing about our team right now \u2013 we want to get challenged right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins will return to the ice on Thursday on the road against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\/news\/patriots-drake-maye-continues-offseason-tour-bruins-stars-game\/781a309b05eba6891ac1bdce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patriots&#8217; Drake Maye Continues Offseason Tour At Bruins-Stars Game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins picked up a huge 6-3 home win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday. Boston was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-534898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116330162125661128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534898","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=534898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}