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Bruins start fast, fade late, hold on to beat Vegas
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BOSTON — At the start of the third period, the Bruins appeared to be headed for an easy win. With 1.2 seconds left, they still had to hold on.
After a dominant effort through the second intermission, Boston survived an ugly third period to escape with a 4-3 win on Thursday at TD Garden.
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The Bruins host Montreal on Saturday at 7 p.m.
After Tuesday’s lopsided loss to Dallas , coach Marco Sturm said he was glad the game hadn’t been close because he wanted his players to learn a lesson from it.
He had to be pleased with the way they started on Thursday. The Bruins scored three goals in less than a minute early.
The Bruins made terrific use of the power play stemming from Tomas Hertl ’s four-minute high-sticking penalty in the first period. Charlie McAvoy whistled a slap shot by Akira Schmid 10 seconds into the first penalty to make it 1-0, 9:12 into the game.
Just 30 seconds later, Elias Lindholm converted on the power play again to release Hertl and make it 2-0.
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The Bruins kept attacking at even strength. Just 24 seconds after Lindholm and 54 after McAvoy, Sean Kuraly stole the puck at the point and fed Tanner Jeannot , who beat Schmid to make it 3-0 with 9:54 left in the first.
David Pastrnak made it 4-0 in the second. Nikita Zadorov carried the puck deep into the zone, stepped around a defenseman and fed a backhand pass to Pastrnak, who snapped it by Schmid with 12:35 left.
North Chelmsford’s Jack Eichel broke up Joonas Korpisalo ’s clean sheet on an assist from Boston native Noah Hanafin, 30 seconds into the third.
TD Garden got a little anxious shortly after when Hertl’s power play goal cut the 4-0 intermission lead to 4-2 with 16:59 remaining.
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Vegas pulled within one with its goalie pulled and 2:35 left when Pavel Dorofeyev ’s shot leaked through Korpisalo.
Vegas got four more shots for 20 in the third, but Korpisalo held on.
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