Bruins win in Calgary to snuff Flames' streak
CALGARY, Alberta -- The Boston Bruins extended their winning streak to four games in a row with a 5-2 victory in Calgary, while making sure the Flames didn't set a franchise record for consecutive wins.
David Pastrnak had two goals, including one into an empty net with 2.1 seconds remaining, for the Bruins (38-26-6), who will try to make it five wins in a row when they take on the Oilers in Edmonton on Thursday night.
Brad Marchand, David Backes and Matt Belesky also scored for Boston.
Making his first start since March 4, Boston goalie Anton Khudobin made 21 saves to record his fourth straight win and improve his record to 5-5-1.
Alex Chiasson and Dougie Hamilton scored for the Flames (39-27-4), who tied a franchise record with their 10th straight victory on Monday when they beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 in a shootout.
The Atlanta Flames also won 10 games in a row from Oct. 14 to Nov. 3, 1978, before relocating to Calgary two seasons later.
Due to an illness to goalie Brian Elliott, Chad Johnson made his first start in net for Calgary since Feb. 24 and finished with 27 saves.
The Bruins went up 4-2 at 3:36 of the third when Beleskey converted a feed from Ryan Spooner to capitalize on a two-on-zero opportunity.
Chiasson scored his 10th goal of the season at 9:23 of the first period when he cut out from behind the net before tucking a shot past Khudobin.
Pastrnak replied for the Bruins at 11:47 when he skated in on right wing and wristed a shot from the faceoff circle through Johnson's legs.
Johnson then let in another soft goal at 6:04 of the second when he mishandled Colin Miller's dump in from the red line. Marchand did a good job to sneak in behind Calgary defenseman Matt Bartkowski to retrieve the loose puck before backhanding it into the net for an easy goal.
Khudobin had a gaffe of his own 70 seconds later when Hamilton's harmless-looking wrist shot from outside the blue line found its way into the net over the goalie's right pad.
Backes put the Bruins up 3-2 at 11:03 when he took a pass from David Krejci and wired a shot to the top corner, glove-side behind Johnson.
NOTES: The Flames recalled G Jon Gillies from the AHL's Stockton Heat on Wednesday and he served as G Chad Johnson's back-up. ... The Flames scratched C Curtis Lazar, C Freddie Hamilton and D Rasmus Andersson, while D Michael Stone missed his third straight game with an upper-body injury. ... Bruins C Ryan Spooner, who missed the past three games due to a concussion, made his return to Boston's lineup. ... The Bruins scratched D John-Michael Liles, D Joe Morrow, C Austin Czarnik and LW Peter Cehlarik, while C Tim Schaller missed his third straight game with a lower-body injury. ... Bruins RW David Pastrnak extended his point-scoring streak to 10 straight games (four goals, nine assists). ... Flames C Matt Stajan had an assist on RW Alex Chiasson's first-period goal for his 400th career NHL point.