Bruins snap 6-game losing streak, beat Avalanche, 3-2

Steve Conroy, Boston Herald on Oct 25, 2025

Published in Hockey

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BOSTON — Sometimes, there is no explaining the game of hockey.

The Colorado Avalanche, one of the best teams in the NHL, dominated the struggling Boston Bruins through the first 14 minutes of Saturday’s matinee at TD Garden. But just when you thought you could chalk up the seventh straight loss for the B’s, they somehow turned it around and handed the Avs their first regulation loss of the season, 3-2.

The B’s nursed a 3-1 lead for most of the third period. Artturi Lehknon got the Avs within a goal with a tip goal with 18.2 seconds left on a 6-on-5. But that’s as close as they could get.

Goaltending, of course, matters. Jeremy Swayman led the way with 30 saves.

The Avs appeared to be on the verge of of blowing out the Bruins in the first period. Not only did they take the early lead at 4:26 on an Artturi Lehkonen goal off a lightning quick Nathan MacKinnon pass, they dominated the B’s territorially, at a Harlem Globetrotters-versus-Washington Generals level. When the Avs weren’t forcing mistakes, the B’s were making unforced ones. At one point, the Avs were outshooting the B’s 10-1.

Colorado then seemed to get too cocky and the B’s stormed back to take a 2-1 lead with two goals in 39 seconds.

The first one came at 14:16 when Viktor Arvidsson scored his first goal as a Bruin. After taking a feed from Mason Lohrei at the bottom of the left circle, Arvidsson’s shortside stuff attempt was thwarted but, from behind the net, the winger was able to bank it in off goalie Scott Wedgewood. With that, Arvidsson mimed the old monkey-off-back motion.

Then on the next shift, Avalanche defenseman Sam Malinski tried to keep a puck in at the Boston blue line but it hopped over his stick, giving the B’s a 2-on-1. After gaining the Colorado blue line, Tanner Jeannot made a terrific shift to his backhand and sent a pretty pass over to Mike Eyssimont for his Eyssimont’s second of the year.

The B’s got the first power play of the day and nearly took a two-goal lead but Wedgewood robbed Pavel Zacha with a sprawling glove save.

While Jeremy Swayman kept the B’s deficit at one goal in the first period with some timely stops, Wedgewood did the same for the Avs in the second. The B’s got the second PP of the game and they couldn’t convert and then Wedgewood came up with big stops on Morgan Geekie and Casey Mittelstadt.

The B’s had to kill a couple of Colorado power plays in the second and it looked like they would be happy to go into the second intermission with their precarious one-goal lead. But then the B’s stunned the Avs with a goal with 4.5 seconds left in the period.

From behind the red line, David Pastrnak chipped a puck in deep and Geekie was out front to prevent the icing. Both defenseman Josh Manson and Wedgewood moved toward the far side post, but Geekie stopped short behind the net, came out front and tucked it into the shortside to give the B’s a 3-1 lead going into the third period.

The Avs got rambunctious in the third in an effort to tie it up. First Brent Burns crashed the net and was called for slashing after a scrum. Then off a Parker Kelly shorthanded bid that was stopped by Swayman, Kelly ignited another scrum when he, too, jammed at Swayman. But after the ensuing brouhaha, Charlie McAvoy was the only one sent to the box for roughing.

That produced a 4-on-4 and the B’s held on for dear life.

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