SUNRISE, Fla. — David Pastrnak scored a power-play goal with 2 seconds left in overtime and the Boston Bruins snapped a six-game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday.
It was the second goal of the day for Pastrnak, who has six in his past five games. He also had an assist. Morgan Geekie also had a goal and assist, and Jeremy Swayman stopped 39 shots for the Bruins, who entered having scoring one goal or fewer in four of their past six games.
“Obviously, [the Panthers] were pushing hard. They are a really good offensive team,” Boston coach Joe Sacco said. “They found a way to tie it, but fortunately for us, we showed some resiliency in overtime, and we found a way to get one.”
Sam Reinhart scored twice for Florida, including the tying goal that Sacco mentioned, which came with just 2 seconds left in regulation.
“I don’t know about the end result, except that we come out to play a certain way, and we did that start to finish,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “We played well, we were over 100 on the shot attempts. We’ll always try to find something we want to get a little better at. … But we were good tonight.”
Oliver Wahlstrom had given Boston a 3-2 lead, just a couple minutes after Reinhart’s tying goal 43 seconds into the third. Wahlstrom, 24, claimed off waivers earlier in the season from the New York Islanders, is a Portland, Maine, native who grew up a Bruins fan. The goal was his first in a Boston uniform.
Evan Rodrigues scored a power-play goal for Florida in the first that snapped his 15-game goal drought. Sergei Bobrovsky made 14 saves for the hosts.
Despite the overtime loss, Florida remains the only team in the league that hasn’t lost a one-goal regulation game.
“We did some right things, we had good energy throughout the whole game,” Florida captain Aleksander Barkov said. “Obviously, it’s not the end result that we wanted, but I think there were a lot of positives in this game.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.