The Boston Bruins didn’t make it easy on themselves – or Jeremy Swayman – in the first two periods of a Saturday matinee against the bottom-feeding Columbus Blue Jackets. They hardly displayed their sharpest brand of hockey, but Jim Montgomery’s squad managed to pull away in the third and improve to 24-4-2.
Swayman returned to the crease in search of a bounce-back performance after last Friday’s loss in Arizona. The second-year netminder had a perfect outing save for a pair of power-play tallies, stopping 31 of 33 shots en route to his sixth win in 2022-23.