BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Viktor Arvidsson had three goals including two empty-netters, Elias Lindholm scored a tiebreaking, power-play goal 13 seconds into the third period and the Boston Bruins helped their playoff push with a 6-3 win over the Dallas Stars on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Marat Khusnutdinov and Henri Jokiharju also scored for the Bruins, who won their fourth straight game and hold the Eastern Conference’s top wild-card spot. David Pastrnak collected three assists, and Joonas Korpisalo made 13 saves.<\/p>\n
Jamie Benn, Matt Duchene and Wyatt Johnston each had a goal for Dallas, and Jake Oettinger stopped 17 shots. Johnston’s was his 41st.<\/p>\n
Heading to the playoffs for the fifth straight year after clinching a little over a week ago, the Stars have lost seven of nine as they attempt to get straightened out before pursuing their fourth consecutive trip to the Western Conference final.<\/p>\n
At the very end of a power play, Lindholm fired a wrister from the right circle that beat Oettinger inside the far post, making it 3-2.<\/p>\n
Jokiharju then scored his first goal as a Bruin, firing a wrister in from the slot at 5:51 to give Boston a two-goal edge.<\/p>\n
Arvidsson sealed it with his first empty-netter, sending Boston to its 28th home win this season.<\/p>\n
Coming off a three-goal, third-period comeback in Columbus on Sunday that capped a solid weekend, the Bruins jumped ahead when Khusnutdinov scored off a rebound midway into the opening period.<\/p>\n
Arvidsson knocked in Pastrnak’s pass from the crease, making it 2-0 with 1:09 left in the first, before Benn’s score sliced it to 2-1 4:49 into the second.<\/p>\n
Duchene stole the puck at the side of the net and shoveled it from the edge of the crease, tying it at 16:53 of the second.<\/p>\n
Up Next<\/p>\n
Stars: Host Winnipeg on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Bruins: At Florida Thursday night, the first of a four-game trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Viktor Arvidsson had three goals including two empty-netters, Elias Lindholm scored a tiebreaking, power-play goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[15731,12086,15730,154,95,5132,530,5,40682,12399,4,38640,38639,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-539791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-app-around-maine","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-boston-bruins","13":"tag-bostonbruins","14":"tag-bruins","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-ken-powtak","17":"tag-maine","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-publish-to-facebook-me","20":"tag-publish-to-x-threads-me","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116344695244879222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539791","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=539791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}