{"id":536691,"date":"2026-04-02T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:48:00","slug":"arvidssons-goal-in-shootout-completes-bruins-rally-for-4-3-victory-over-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536691\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvidsson&#8217;s goal in shootout completes Bruins&#8217; rally for 4-3 victory over Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Arvidsson scored the decisive goal in the shootout and had three assists in the third period as the Boston Bruins rallied from a three-goal, third-period deficit to defeat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the ninth time in franchise history the Bruins have posted a three-goal, third-period comeback, and the first since March 13, 2018, when they defeated Carolina 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bruins.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Bruins Blue Jackets Hockey \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Viktor Arvidsson celebrates his game-winning goal against the Columbus Blue Jackets Sunday, March 29, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>                Jay LaPrete \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Minten also scored in the shootout for the Bruins, who have won three straight and five of six. The victory also kept Boston in the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with 92 points.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Zacha had two power-play goals &#8211; including the tying score with 11 seconds remaining &#8211; and an assist while Charlie McAvoy had a goal and an assist. Jeremy Swayman stopped 21 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Boone Jenner scored in his 800th NHL game, Mason Marchment had a goal and an assist, and Charlie Coyle scored on the power-play during a three-goal first period for Columbus, Kirill Marchenko added a pair of assists.<\/p>\n<p>Jet Greaves stopped 35 shots as the Blue Jackets fell to 2-3-1 in their last six. Columbus did earn a point. With 88 points, they are two ahead of Ottawa and Detroit for the East&#8217;s second wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Jenner was called for tripping with 42 seconds remaining. The Bruins pulled Swayman for an extra skater and tied it with 11 seconds remaining as Zacha chipped it over Greaves&#8217; shoulder and blocker.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Bruins&#8217; fourth-latest, game-tying goal over the last 30 years for the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Boston made it a one-goal game on third-period scores 2:14 apart. McAvoy put in a long wrist shot from near the blue line at 6:29 and Zacha added a power-play goal.Columbus forward Mathieu Olivier suffered an upper-body injury during the second period and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Bruins: Host Dallas on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Blue Jackets: Host Carolina on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Viktor Arvidsson scored the decisive goal in the shootout and had three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,95,897,230,5179,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-536691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-blue-jackets","9":"tag-bluejackets","10":"tag-boston-bruins","11":"tag-columbus","12":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","13":"tag-columbusbluejackets","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116335668235584894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536691","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=536691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}