Bruins outlast Kings in OT for 2-1 win

Steve Conroy, Boston Herald on Mar 10, 2026

Published in Hockey

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BOSTON — The Bruins are a great team when they’re at TD Garden, but they were facing a Los Angeles Kings that was every bit as good on the road.

Something had to give. And it was the Kings who cracked in overtime.

Charlie McAvoy scored at 39 seconds into overtime to lift the B’s to a 2-1 hard-earned victory over the Kings. In OT, Mark Kastelic sent a pass from behind his goal line to David Pastrnak at the Los Angeles blue line and he dished to an onrushing McAvoy, who attacked the net with speed and tucked a backhander past Darcy Kuemper for the win.

The B’s stretched their winning streak to 13 games on Causeway Street and improved their home record to 25-8-1.

Mason Lohrei broke a scoreless tie at 8:22 of the third period. After Jeremy Swayman had made a great pad save on an Alex Laferriere redirection, the B’s went on the attack. Lohrei found some open space, which was hard to come by all night, and he stepped down from the right point. He placed a perfect shot over Kuemper’s blocker, off the post and in.

But the B’s couldn’t hold the lead. Los Angeles tied it at 14:00 when Trevor Moore pulled up along the right boards to elude a Lohrei check and dish it back to an oncoming Drew Doughty. The veteran’s blistering slapper was going wide to the far side but it hit of Elias Lindholm’s leg and into the net.

That would send it to OT, where the B’s grabbed the all-important two points.

The first period set the tone for the contest to be a grind of a game. Every puck was contested and the two teams wore out the neutral zone as they both struggled to get any offensive flow going. Seam passes were not getting through to their intended target.

Crisp it was not.

The Kings, who had a 5-3 advantage in shots, got the first excellent chance of the game when dangerous goalscorer Adrian Kempe took advantage of a bobble at the Los Angeles blue line. He pulled away for a clean breakaway but Swayman made the stop.

One of the three Bruins shots was a tester when Pastrnak sent Marat Khusnutdinov in on a short break-in but he didn’t have much room to make a move and Kuemper gobbled it up.

Mikey Eyssimont also came up with a big block on Scott Laughton, who had a good part of the net at which to shoot.

The B’s got the first power play of the game when Mark Kastelic was interfered with but McAvoy had to take a tripping penalty 43 seconds into it to wipe out the advantage.

The B’s got their second power play midway through the second and it was a rough one for Hampus Lindholm. First, he was loading up for a snap shot off the first faceoff but whiffed on it, giving Laughton a clean breakaway, but he couldn’t beat Swayman, who got a pad on Laughton’s shot. Then, after the B’s repeatedly turned it over in their zone, Lindholm wiped out the final 26 seconds of the PP with a hooking call that may have saveed a goal as the puck was laying behind Swayman in the crease.

Things got nasty when Samuel Helenius got McAvoy with a hit to the mouth, something he’s getting far too used to. He would skate off and head down the tunnel while Nikita Zadorov chose to avenge the hit by dropping the gloves with Helenius. The 6-7 Zadorov and 6-6 Helenius did a decent job of keeping each other at bat with their long reaches, though they kept swinging away before the linesmen stepped in.

Pastrnak drew an interference penalty late in the second and they had better zone time but they couldn’t beat Kuemper. Fraser Minten, who had hit a post in the first period, clanged the crossbar on a redirect just as power play had expired and the two sides went into the third in a 0-0 deadlock.