A banged-up Boston Bruins bunch — without Nick Foligno, Craig Smith and Anton Blidh — skated circles around the previously unbeaten San Jose Sharks Sunday afternoon. In the end, they needed a proverbial life preserver to secure another win.
Brad Marchand netted his fourth goal of the season a mere 38 seconds in. A Derek Forbort tally at 3:18 and a David Pastrnak power-play blast late in the opening stanza got the Bruins up and running.
Jake DeBrusk answered Jasper Weatherby’s short-side tally (32 seconds after Pastrnak’s lamplighter at 16:44 of the first) on a bank feed from Oskar Steen to secure his second goal of the year and Steen’s first career NHL point.