BOSTON — The Boston Bruins extended their season-opening home point streak to 19 games with a 7-3 win against the Florida Panthers at TD Garden on Monday.
Patrice Bergeron had two goals and two assists, and Linus Ullmark made 36 saves for Boston (25-4-2), which is now (17-0-2) at home. Brad Marchand had three assists, and four other Bruins players had multi-point games.
Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe each had a goal and an assist, and Spencer Knight made 19 saves for Florida (15-14-4).
The Bruins took a 4-0 lead, propelled by three first period goals in a 5:16 span, but the Panthers followed up with three goals in 5:20 of the second period to make it 4-3 before the Bruins pulled away again. .
Connor Clifton gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 10:51 of the first period when he brought the puck into the zone and cycled around the net to collect his own centering pass that Knight deflected and shot down the bar.
Brandon Carlo made it 2-0 at 14:04, firing off a pass from Marchand to end a 32-game scoring drought.
Charlie Coyle pushed it to 3-0 at 16:07 and David Pastrnak made it 4-0 at 1:38 of the second period with a power-play goal.
Reinhart cut it to 4-1 at 3:02, tapping the puck past Ullmark on the doorstep following a Matt Kiersted point shot.
Eric Staal made it 4-2 at 5:42, one-timing a Gustav Forsling feed from the right face-off circle.
Verhaeghe cut it to 4-3 at 8:22 on a between-the-legs backhand, but David Krejci responded to make it 5-3 at 11:50 after rebounding a Hampus Lindholm redirect off the post.
Bergeron made it 6-3 at 8:52 of the third period, then poked in a power-play goal at 13:18 for the 7-3 final.
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