In Seattle, the Boston Bruins’ Jake DeBrusk‘s second goal of the game with 33 seconds gone in extra time on Thursday night to give Boston a 3-2 win over the Kraken. 
“[DeBrusk] had his legs tonight, he was hard on pucks, and obviously attacked on the overtime goal down on the forward-side recognition,” Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “He earned his minutes (18:46). Really nice job for us. Really good job. That’s what Jake can do. He can score goals. He showed it on the first one going to the net, but more so the last one just waiting the goalie out.”
Linus Ullmark made 25 saves in the Boston win.
“I don’t even know that, but you know, it’s just I’m not taking anything for granted,” Ullmark said. “I’m very blessed, very happy to be here and know there’s a lot of games left.”
The Bruins improved to 30-17-4.
Brad Marchand returned to the lineup from his six-game suspension.
“I thought Brad had good jump,” Cassidy said. “He was on the puck, second effort on the puck, and got some looks and had some chances to win the game. I was happy with his game, and we’ll obviously look at the details of it tomorrow when we go through the video part of it. But on the surface, I thought he looked good.”
Mark Giordano and Jordan Eberle were the Kraken strikers.
“We played our [behinds] off tonight for 60 minutes,” Kraken head coach Dave Hakstol said. “Tough way to lose a hockey game, but I’m proud of our effort. That’s not the best form to start with. We were shorthanded too much, but our penalty kill did fine with that, our goaltender did fine with that. … His game tonight started with the penalty kills. He was sound, solid, and made a couple of big saves.”
Seattle dropped to 16-33-5.
“In the third period, both teams were playing good systematic hockey, just trying not to make a mistake,” Eberle said. “I hate to say it’s great to get a point, but you always want to win. That’s a good hockey team over there. I liked the way we competed.”
David Pastrnak added a single marker for the Bruins, his goal gave Boston a 2-1 lead in the middle frame.
Philipp Grubauer made 36 saves in the Seattle loss.
“I don’t know if that’s the way we want to start,” Grubauer said. “We found a way to kill those off, that’s huge. We made a nice play and scored a goal.”
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