Bruins let lead slip on way to OT loss to Rangers

The Bruins should've left Madison Square Garden with two points. Instead, the Bruins had to settle for just one, as Boston let a third-period lead slip before they ultimately fell by a 4-3 overtime final in New York.

The Rangers’ Will Borgen scored the game-tying goal with 6:17 left in the third period, while Matthew Robertson banked the overtime goal by Boston’s Joonas Korpisalo with 1:07 left in the extra frame. 

Down 2-1 through 40 minutes of play, the Bruins grabbed a lead in the middle frame behind tallies from Elias Lindholm and Morgan Geekie in a 5:34 span. Both markers came with a primary assist from Bruins superstar David Pastrnak (as did Lindholm's first-period goal), which gave Pastrnak a three-assist night, and gave him 900 career points.

In goal, Korpisalo finished with 24 saves in a losing effort. The overtime loss did extend Korpisalo's point streak to five games (4-0-1), but was also his first loss since Dec. 27 in Buffalo.

Already down Nikita Zadorov (lower body, day-to-day) for this one, the Bruins were dealt a pair of injury scares elsewhere on the backend in this one. And it was right at the top, too, with Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm both appearing to be bit with the injury bug.

McAvoy did return to play and finished with over 24 minutes of time on ice, while Lindholm appeared to be struggling after a missed shot on goal in the overtime frame. With tomorrow being the second leg of a back-to-back, there will not be a morning skate for the Bruins, meaning any update on either player will have to wait until Marco Sturm's pregame media availability shortly before 6 p.m. at TD Garden.