{"id":535727,"date":"2026-04-02T01:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:10:30","slug":"viktor-arvidsson-hat-trick-leads-bruins-past-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535727\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Arvidsson hat trick leads Bruins past Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON \u2014 The Bruins<\/a> used a dominant third period to move a little closer to a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

Viktor Arvidsson had a hat trick that included two empty-net goals and David Pastrnak<\/a> added three assists as Boston pulled away for a 6-3 win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday at TD Garden.<\/p>\n

The win combined with help from games around the league further solidified the Bruins\u2019 playoff position at 43-24-8 (94 points).<\/p>\n

Boston now heads on the road for a four-game road trip beginning at Florida on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Bruins used the momentum of a strong penalty kill just before the midway point of the first period to jump-start their offense. Just 30 seconds after Nikita Zadorov\u2019s interference penalty ended, Jake Oettinger stopped Henri Jokiharju\u2019s one-timer, but Marat Khusnutdinov knocked home the rebound to put Boston up 1-0, with 10:02 left in the period.<\/p>\n

Goal number two came two seconds after a Bruins power play ended. Pastrnak passed the puck from behind the net to Arvidsson off the left post. Arvidsson tapped it in to make it 2-0 with 1:09 left in the first.<\/p>\n

Jamie Benn got Dallas on the board early in the second, tucking a puck behind Joonas Korpisalo, 4:49 into the second.<\/p>\n

Korpisalo stoned Jason Robertson on a breakaway with 5:39 left, but he couldn\u2019t stop Matt Duchene from the doorstep as Dallas tied the game with 3:07 left in the second.<\/p>\n

But the pendulum swung back toward Boston to start the third. Elias Lindholm bulls-eyed the top corner on the power play from the right-wing boards, 13 second into the period to make it 3-2 setting the tone for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

After Jokiharju added his first of the season, Arvidsson sandwiched two empty-netters around a Wyatt Johnson goal.<\/p>\n

Korpisalo needed just 13 saves to earn the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The Bruins used a dominant third period to move a little closer to a playoff berth.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535728,"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-535727","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\/116332450594447316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535727","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=535727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}