Watch: Bruins outlast Panthers in overtime on goal with 1.2 seconds left
David Pastrnak delivered in style to cap a wild win over the defending Stanley Cup champions.
A Bruins team desperately searching for a break to alter the course of its season may have found one Saturday afternoon against the Florida Panthers.
After a high-sticking call with 42 seconds left in overtime, the Bruins had one last gasp on the power play to try and avoid a tie. They found some much-needed good fortune when David Pastrnak sent one toward the net.
The puck ricocheted off Sam Reinhart’s stick, goalie Sergei Bobrovsky never saw it, and it made its way in with 1.2 seconds left to seal a dramatic, 4-3, road triumph.
The Bruins, who had lost six straight coming in, picked up one of their biggest victories to date against the defending Stanley Cup champions.
It was a back-and-forth battle from the start. Morgan Geekie gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead, the Panthers tied it, then Pastrnak put Boston ahead, 2-1 in the second period.
Reinhart tied it, Oliver Wahlstrom vaulted the Bruins back in front early in the third, then Reinhart converted with 1.8 seconds left, moments after the Bruins hit the post on an empty-netter.
The Bruins regrouped, delivering in style for a national audience on ABC.
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