The rumors of the decline of the Boston Bruins may have been greatly exaggerated, at least for one night.
On Wednesday, Tuukka Rask made 19 save to backstop the Bruins to a 3-2 win over 
the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Rask stopped a four-game skid of his record.
“Oh, it’s great. It’s awesome,” Rask said. “Yeah, I know, needed that one.”
Charlie McAvoy, Riley Nash and Torey Krug had the Boston strikes as they built a 3-0 lead and then had to hold off the Bolts for the win.
“We talk about the goaltender needing to make saves and then the team playing well in front of him, and that’s where it got away from us,” Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy said. “So that’s where he (Rask) helped himself big time tonight. That’s what we need.”
Andrej Sustr and Steven Stamkos struck for the Lightning to tighten the match late.
“You know if we had that same mindset that we had in the third to start the game, then it’s probably a different result,” Stamkos said. “But we just looked like a team that was a step behind and we dug ourselves too big a hole.”
Tampa has dropped to 17-6-2 and lost three of four games.
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Andrei Vasilevskiy made 33 saves n taking the loss.
The Lightning managed just two points on a four-game roadie.
“You have to learn from this experience. To go on a four-game road trip and get two points out of it … that’s not what we had planned and actually probably never thought that would happen,” Bolts’ head coach Jon Cooper said after the loss.
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