Bergeron scores OT winner to lift Bruins past Kings, 5-4
right circle for the game-winner.
“To get the win was very special,” he said.
“That’s what I said on the bench — ‘We’ve got to find a way’ — and we did.”
Marchand, David Krejci and Danton Heinen each scored a goal in a 3:22 span early in the third period to give the Bruins a 4-2 edge before the Kings came back. Los Angeles tied it on Oscar Fantenberg’s slap shot from the point with 4:47 left in regulation for his first goal of the season.
“The guys battled back,” Kings coach Willie Desjardins said. “Was a little disappointing to start the third. We could have been better at the start of the third for sure.”
Nate Thompson’s goal cut it to 4-3 with 10:41 to play.
Charlie McAvoy had the other goal and Tuukka Rask stopped 25 shots for Boston, including Adrian Kempe’s breakaway in the first minute of OT. The Bruins have collected at least a point in eight of their last 10 games (4-2-4).
Alex Iafallo and Anze Kopitar also scored for the Kings, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Quick made 28 saves.
Krejci gave the Bruins a 3-2 lead just 90 seconds after Heinen tied it early in the third. Skating in on rush, Torey Krug fired a shot off the right post before Krejci sent the rebound into the net.
Heinen had banged in a rebound from the edge of crease 3:27 into the third.
The Bruins then took their two-goal lead when Marchand converted a perfect pass from Bergeron for a short-handed goal at the end of a 2-on-1 break.
Trailing 1-0 midway into the the second period, the Kings scored twice in just under six minutes to move ahead. With Krejci in the penalty box for slashing, they tied it on Iafallo’s power-play goal at 8:13, a shot from the right point that caromed in off Rask.