Bruins edge Isles in OT

Boston’s Patrice Bergeron scored at 1:33 of extra time on Saturday night to defeat the New York Islanders, 3-2, on Long Island.

It was only the third win in eight overtime efforts this season.

“We hadn’t had much luck in that,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said of overtime. “I thought it was the right call (on Nelson), he stuck his foot out and tripped him. … Good for us. They got a great overtime record, us not so much. Maybe this’ll be the beginning of balancing the scales a little on that part.”

Tuukka Rask made 35 saves in the for the Bruins.

“I thought it was a great game tonight,” Bergeron said. “It was fun to be a part of it. Even though it was a low-scoring game, there was a lot of things happening. I thought both teams were skating well and creating, but also tight-checking and not much space out there. That’s what we’re going to see down the road, and they’re a great team. My expectations were what we just got from them. It was a great game.”

Mathew Barzal and Scott Mayfield scored for the Isles.

“The chances were there. That’s a heck of a hockey team over there,” Barzal said. “Two top teams going at it. I think that’s kind of the way we expected the game was going to be, kind of a chess match and a little bit of back-and-forth there, which was nice.

“That’s a good defensive hockey team, similar structure to us. There’s not too many breakdowns or easy goals.”

Jake DeBrusk  and John Moore scored for the Bruins in regulation.

“We refocused and our coaches got us refocused,” Boston’s  Charlie McAvoy said. “I think it kind of opened our eyes a little bit that we had a lot more to give and to start bringing it. I think we started playing better in the second and third (period).”

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Semyon Varlamov made 30 saves in the loss.

“We did a lot of good things, I thought, in the first period,” Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. “We really played well. We could have been up more than a goal, it’s just coming a little hard for us. I thought we dictated play.”