Bruins rally past Jets

In Boston, the Bruins are back from their spate of less than thrilling efforts.

On Thursday night, David Pastrnak potted a hat trick and Jake DeBrusk added two goals in a 5-4 win over the visiting Winnipeg Jets.

.It did require something of a rally, but not the made scramble the Bruins had found some comfort in as 2019 closed.

The Winnipeg Jets took a 4-3 lead early in the third period on a goal from Mark Scheifele.

Pastrnak and DeBrusk responded with goals 33 seconds apart to get the winning advantage.

“I think we followed up the [Nashville Predators game] (a 6-2 win Tuesday), you know. I think in Nashville every line got on the board,” Pastrnak said. “And today there was a lot looks by every line. It was just one of those nights that it went in for a couple guys.”

Jaroslav Halak made 17 saves in the win.

“I thought we were the better team,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Obviously, they come in here after the third and fourth nights traveling, we had to take advantage of that. The first period we probably didn’t do that as much as we could … but I thought we kept pressing it and were able to play in their end and get some good looks and came out on the right side of it.”

Boston has one regulation loss in 12 games, 6-1-5.

“Going into this game, if you said we’d put four up there, I would have taken that,” Jets coach Paul Maurice said. “I don’t think we had enough jump to skate the way we were going to need to skate to win that game. But it was still right there for sure.”

Kyle Connor, Andrew Copp, and Neal Pionk also scored for the Jets.

“We were about 10 minutes away from it being a great road trip,” Copp said. “Kind of a sour taste right now, I feel like we kind of let one get away. But you know, all in all, pretty good road trip. There were some things that we did well that we want to take moving forward and then there are things we’ve got to clean up for sure if we’re going to be a contender.”

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Laurent Brossoit made 31 saves in the loss.

“They got some rock stars over there,” Blake Wheeler said. “You give 88 (Pastrnak) some time and space, he’s going to put it in the net. He’s lethal. They’ve got a lot of good players over there, obviously some guys that I’m familiar with. You give them power plays and some sustained zone time, they’ll make you pay.”